1. Instructional Technology April 14, 2011 Adebayo Owolewa No longer a question of should!

2. What is Instructional Technology Educational [Instructional] technology is a complex and integrated process, involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning. - Association for Educational Communications and Technology

3. Thinking Assignment WHAT IS YOUR CONCEPTION OF TECHNOLOGY?

4. The Concept of Technology Fields of Engineering Engineers, technologists and technicians are closely related in their views of technology as the process of material construction based on systematic engineering knowledge of how to design artifacts,

5. Technology?

6. The Concept of Technology Social Science Scholars Social Science Scholars typically view technology in broader terms, extending what is understood of material construction to take social significance into consideration. First, social science scholars’ employment of the term “technology” refers to material construction uses as well as the intellectual and social contexts. It refers to the organization of knowledge for the achievement of practical purposes as well as any tool or technique of doing or making, by which capability is extended.

7. What is Instructional Technology Educational [Instructional] technology is a complex and integrated process, involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning. - Association for Educational Communications and Technology

8. Technology!

9. Web 1.0 The term "Web 1.0" is commonly associated with the state of the world wide web pre-2001. The time was characterized the one-way flow of information, websites with “read-only” material and slow and dial- up computer speeds. Compared to today’s standards, computer literacy was low.

10. The Machine is Us/ing Us “Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes”, explained by the Digital Ethnography Project at Kansas State University (Wesch). The video helps to illustrate important changes brought by Web 2.0 (read/write web, social web) as content and form became separated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

12. Web 2.0 The term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate web-based the four primary information sharing design patterns are sharing information one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to- many, and many-to-one. interactive information sharing Being able to accomplish end-user applications using different types of computer systems, operating systems, and application software, interconnected by different types of local and wide area networks interoperability a philosophy that tries to optimize the user interface around how people can, want, or need to work, rather than forcing the users to change how they work to accommodate the software developers approach. user-centered design a process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. collaboration

13. Web 2.0 Technologies Wiki – is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages within the browser. Google Docs, Google Earth, Google Scholar, Google Notebook Web Applications – application accessed via web browser FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter Social Networking Sites – online community of people w/ shared interests YouTube, Flickr Video Sharing Website – allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website Delicious, diigo (social bookmarking) Folksonomy - a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content

14. Web 2.0 Technologies a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video Blogs a podcast is a pre-recorded audio program that's posted to a website and is made available for download so people can listen to them on personal computers or mobile device Podcast "Really Simple Syndication" is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio and video– RSS a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service Mashup an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software’s source code OpenSource

15. Thinking Assignment HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK IT IS FOR STUDENTS TO USE TECHNOLOGY?

16. Why Important? Prepares students for living in a global economy Gain technical expertise with different technologies Allows interactions with other people in different socio- economic and geographical communities Accesses multiple intelligences Learn skills of collaboration Meet State Technology Standards

17. Why Important? Is fun Close the Achievement Gap Learn how to access and critique online resources Could reduce costs for school and districts Students have access to knowledge on their own time-table / Digital Natives Aid students on IEP

18. A Brave New World-Wide-Web An excellent video by David Truss highlighting his journey to become a connected teacher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPQ4Qr8xks

19. My Experiences Trial of Brutus – Podcast Online research of the late Republic Social bookmark resource on delicious.com Co-wrote description on Google Docs Created podcast and put it on Latinwiki Student Senate Wiki Repository, aggregator and disseminator of information Latin Wiki Repository, aggregator and disseminator of information

20. The Networked Student This video by Wendy Drexler describes an emerging learning environment for the connected student. It depicts an actual project completed by her high school students and provides a tangible example of a well-connected learner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

21. What Teachers Need Administrative Support Technological Resources Professional Development On-staff Expert or Consultant

22. Administrator’s Perspective Financial Constraint s Prepare Students for the Future Infrastructure Maintenance Additional staff or consultant Converting to a new system Teacher PD Foster community buy-in Reduced licensing fees Meet Mass State Standards for Technology Aggregate data Teacher PD

23. Questions & Discussion

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