Variety and novelty of a technology or a new technique piques attention and engagement.Work time with many applications streamlines searching, building, and constructing so that more time can be spent in thinking, reasoning, analysis, synthesis, reflection, and sound decision-making.Technology assists provide everyone the opportunity to create professional-looking presentations, products, reports, videos, audio, and mashups.Teachers use tech tools to track and report learning as well as analyze results.Students are able to share documents, slide shows, notebooks, works cited documents, and spreadsheets during creation of projects so teachers can check progress continually, making sure students are on the right track.Collaborative construction of documents, presentations, and creative works in real time.google(search)alerts when new content comes o nline and emails the user (April Gilbert) and alerts that connect learners automatically to needed content. Customized search engines that probe in-depth information and documents.Writing and research are enhanced by tracking bibliographies, quotes, notes, sources, note taking, and editing.Communication across the room, the school, the community and the world allows for projects of larger scope.Individuals build their own information spaces that give them power over the onslaught and juggernaut of the Internet.Group project roles, deadlines, responsibilities.Both learners and adults build organizational skills to handle the world of information and technology and turn it into a foundational tool to boost their learning.We will circulate the document widely and it will be published in the December issue of Teacher Librarian.Įfficiency (students work smarter and so do teachers) Please do so in a color of your choice and list your name after your addition. Task: Read, add, revise, and edit the principles and then add other examples. The main document is presented first, followed by the original brainstorming screens from the learning commons seminar and followed last by Joyce Valenza’s full article. Using Technology Tools to Build Excellence in Teaching and Learningīelow, you will find a list of principles that have been gathered from the learning commons seminar, from Joyce Valenza’s article, and from other sources.

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