2. How to Survive and Thrive Using Technology to Enhance Basic Skills Instruction By Jamie Purnell

3. Start With The Ending… Share Your Lesson Success Stories!

4. How can Technology help your students learn? The Big Question:

5. How can help your students ? The Big Question: Technology learn

6. What is Technology?

7. Technology is the systematic application of scientific or organized knowledge to practical tasks. - John Kenneth Galbraith

8. What is learning?

9. Most of what our adult students need to know…

10. U.S. History July 4 th, 1776

11. We are in the business of… MakingConnections

12. How can Technology help your students learn? Back to… The Big Question:

14. What do you want your students to know and be? What skills and/or knowledge do you want them to learn?

15. What is important to your students? What experiences do they bring to the table? What support/knowledge do they need?

16. Based on the goals, what concept will you select?

17. The idea or process the student will be able to demonstrate The topic or “real world” example you will use to convey the concept

18. How many touchdowns did each team score? Concept: Multiplying by 7’s Subject Matter: Football

19. What method is best for conveying this concept?

21. How could computers change your teaching method?

22. Web-based lesson delivery E-mail Text Twitter Social Networks Wikis YouTube and of course…. PowerPoint! Word processing w/ MS Word Creating Stats and graphs using MS Excel Creating timelines and organizational diagrams using MS Visio

23. What resources will you use?

24. Teacher Resources Student Resources

25. How could computers change the resources you & your students can access?

26. Jamie’s web resources database

27. How can Technology help your students learn? Back to… The Big Question:

28. Goal: Students will be able to recognize and repeat at least 70% of spoken English simple past tense words ending in “-ed” Jamie’s Example Learners: ESL level 3 students who need to work on listening skills and are interested in US citizenship Method: Students will listen to a video and pick out as many “-ed” words as they hear Concept: Simple past tense (subject matter: US History) Resource: History.com Students watch the “This Day in History” video for their date of birthHistory.com

29. Goals: What do you want your students to know and be? What skills and/or knowledge do you want them to learn? Learners: What is important to your students? What experiences do they bring to the table? What support/knowledge do they need? Methods: What method is best for conveying this concept? Concepts: Based on the goals, what concept will you select? Resources: What resources will you use?

30. Now it’s your turn Design a computer-enhanced lesson & help your students make a connection!