NH State Technology standards:
1. Basic operations and concepts
* Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
* Students are proficient in the use of technology.
Students have the
opportunity to develop their technology usage skills in the context of
reading and writing across the curriculum. Students know how to log into
the school website to access their lebapps email accounts. They have
practiced and used the dropdown menu in lebapps to access my Haiku site.
Within my Haiku site they are presently learning how to navigate to
locate, open and complete-Karabaic Newa/Necap Practice tests, Questions
to novels they are reading and complete them within the Haiku site.
Students are also learning how to successfully use Google documents and
share them back to me-as of this date-all students have gained
semi-independence in these starting tasks. (9/21/12)
2. Social, ethical, and human issues
* Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
* Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
* Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that
support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and
productivity.
Students have signed a contract for technology use
in my class digitally indicating they understand the proper use of
technology in my classroom. They also have been taught through a
discussion and specifics in that contract that this is a privilege, not a
right to use technology in my classroom. We have discussed safety on
the web as well as understanding that you should never communicate with
people you don't already know in real life, in the digital world.
Students are honing their skills in collaboration using technology, but
for middle school students, this is a learning curve that is challenged
by their need to chat. Productivity has suffered and as a result,
students are presently being given non technology days as a way to
communicate the importance of self direction and responsibility.
3. Technology productivity tools
* Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
* Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing
technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other
creative works.
Students have thus far used shared and
individual google docs, collaborated using google docs, made a copy of a
shared document and renamed a shared document,learned how to share the
google document back to me. Students have used a Popplet app on the ipad
to organize and structure their notes and main ideas from their reading
of their novels. Students are also reading their novels on ipads and
making notes/predictions/questioning within the ipad kindle ebooks.
These Popplets are not only a plot sequence of important ideas in the
novel, but creative outputs as each Popplet is uniquely designed by the
students.
4. Technology communications tools
* Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
* Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
Students
in Haiku will have the ability to interact within a safe and managed
discussion board where they can post their thoughts and feelings about
topics that the teacher poses and they will each be able to discuss that
"big idea" in their novels on the discussion board, socially
interacting, reading each others' posts and commenting on several
student posts. In this way, their discussion posts will be seen by all
other students in all my other classes.
5. Technology research tools
* Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
* Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
* Students evaluate and select new information resources and
technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific
tasks.
When we do a research project, requiring exploration of a
topic, they will have the opportunity to search the web, finding
websites of value and assessing the better sources, reading and
notetaking from the sites, citing the sites, gathering pictures, facts,
opinions and structuring their ideas in a powerpoint, prezi,
sliderocket, etc.
6. Technology problem-solving and decision-making tools
* Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
* Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.
Students
will be offered a number of video clip presentations, offered for their
viewing on the smart board projector where they will see a video, read
the corresponding story, and discuss and identify-fact/opinion,
cause/effect, pros/cons, important details/main ideas, supporting
details, information that does not speak to the bigger topic, and
overall conversations and notetaking. Using technology tools to organize
ideas, such as Popplet, Side by Side, Notes, Sticky Notes and others,
students will use technology to organize their thoughts and ideas and
come to realistic and logical conclusions regarding a problem, conflict
and/or topic of interest.
