EHIMS+PLC+Technology+Training

=Transforming Learning=

"Just "using" technology in schools is not the end goal; it is too broad and too vague to guide destinations, implementations, and assessments. Even the term "integrating" has come to be translated into classroom practices as "do something, do anything -- just use it." -**Bernajean Porter**

In other words, "what do we have now that we could not have had without the technology?" - ** Bernajean Porter **

•Think of a lesson you have done in the past that integrated the use of technology. Open up a Pages Document and write a short summary of that lesson.

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 * Grappling's Technology and Learning Spectrum**

• Print a copy of the flashlightactivity.pdf document. It should produce 24 separate sheets. The eMINTS staff has developed sheets 19-24 for use with secondary teachers. If secondary teachers are present, substitute sheets 19-24 for those scenarios in numbers 1-18, which have a strong elementary focus. • Post each sheet on the wall, in a hallway if necessary. • Assign each person a partner and give each pair a sheet or two of blue, yellow and green sticker dots. • As the participants read each student task, they are to classify the level of technology use as literacy (red dot), adaptive (yellow dot) or transforming (green dot). Allow each pair only one dot per task description. • After everyone has finished classifying, have each pair select one of the task descriptions that had more than one level of use identified. • Start the discussion by having one pair of participants read the description they selected. •Return to your seat and analyze the lesson you wrote about, classifying it as Literacy, Adapting, or Transforming. Discuss with a partner. What could you do to "green it up?"
 * Flashlight Activity**