Friday, July 20, 2007

Tecs 290 Reflections

1. Read all the articles

U.S. schools lag behind in use of technology

Technology is not the cheapest advancement for schools but definitely worth it. There are many schools that need to catch up to the technology buzz but the hard part is making sure the software and other components are of high quality, then everyone will benefit.

National Education Technology Plan

The action steps put into place to prepare students for their futures seems like they were well thought out. Technology will be constantly improving so there needs to be an action plan to keep up with the changing times.

NETS: National Education Technology Standards: for Students, for Teachers and for Administrators

The NETS Project will be a reliable way to know how much technology is assisting students in their learning and where educators are at in their understanding of the technology they are using. Setting standards is important so everyone what is expected and what will not be tolerated.

Don't Just Adapt Technology, Adopt It!!

This title is a good philosophy to adopt. Technology will all ways be changing so if you just continue to adapt with the situations at hand, by the time it is understood there will be some new technology to try and begin to understand. If technology is adopted in to the curriculum everything will still constantly be improving but at least the basic usage skills will be well established in many different areas of technology needed to make the learning experience fun and full filling for all that are involved.

High School.com

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Apple Learning Interchange: This is for all teachers, not just Apple users! http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/

This is a very interesting resource for teachers. This site has a lot of education ideas to offer such as lesson plans, videos, and links to other sites to explore. I have book marked this site to refer back to it when needed.

ALTEC: Innovative Technologies to Improve Teaching and Learning: http://altec.org/index.php

This is another great site that has a wealth of information and projects to tackle on any given day. This site would be helpful with organizing assignments, making quizzes, tests and lesson plans and also provides links to other helpful sites. I am glad I needed to take this class because there is no way I would have found all this great information on my own.

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