Technology Integration

1. According to the article "Technology Integration", under "What is technology integration?", in your opinion, what are the two most important technology resources, and why?

2. Why is it so important to integrate technology into the classroom? What are the benefits? Are there any disadvantages?

3. What can technology integration provide to students and teachers?

Learn how to learn - Overcome the Fear of Technology Multimedia and Digital Story Telling (I)

1) In the article, Digital Storytelling: My Top 10 Lessons Learned, if you had to choose 3 of the most important lessons learned which 3 would you choose as the most useful lessons learned and why?

2) In reading 10.1, click on the link that says Center for Digital Storytelling in the second paragraph. If you go there and click stories, watch a few of the "stories". Did you find any that you really liked? What did this make you think about as for using digital storytelling in the classroom?

3) Why is it important to incorporate digital storytelling? What are some advantages/disadvantages?

Free & Open Educational Resources (2)

1. What are Free and Open Educational Resources and what are the 10 openers (see reading 9.1)?

2. What open educational resources would you use in your future classroom and why? Give a scenario.

3. What do open educational resources include? List 3 main aspects along with examples of each. This will require you to search the web.

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Free & Open Educational Resources

1.What do you believe are some benefits of being able to share resources online and how can this be used by you in your future classroom?

2 Based on the Open Course Ware, what are some of the reasons for sharing resources?

3. Try out the web 2.0 tools, and give your feedback.

4. Which web 2.0 toold do you find the most useful and why?How can u use these tools in the classroom?

5. More specifically, How can you use kerpoof.com to enhance your student's understanding of characters and stories as well as their familiarity with technology?

Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship?

There are 9 themes of digital citizenship, what theme do you believe is the most important and why?

How can Digital Citizenship help teachers?

Why are some sites blocked at schools? What does that show the students?

How can you as a future educator begin the process of teaching your students how to use technology more appropriately?

Digital Divide blog

What are some reasons why students with unlimited internet access are more likely to succeed and attend college than students without unlimited internet access?

What can we do as educators to help close the digital divide?

What are some of the pros and cons of using technology in the classroom?

Week 3: Web 2.0 - What Is It?

Here are discussion questions for this week. Do not feel obligated to answer all the questions. Feel free to ask any questions you have along the way! Looking forward to the discussion!

Q1. What do YOU think Web 2.0 is? Try a one-sentence definition in your own words (Reading 3.1, 3.2).

Q2. What are "digital natives" and "digital immigrants"? Do you believe such a distinction exist? What do you believe are the implications of such distinction in education, especially k-12 education? (Reading 3.5)

Q3. Do Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants think differently? How and why? What are the implications of these arguments for k-12 education? (Reading 3.6)