Case Study: Candor Central School Technology Plan

As an educator it is myresponsibility to provide opportunities for my students to discover and practice skills. I believe children learn from doing. Providing students access to hands-on activities and allowing time and space to use materials reinforce the skills/material. Students should be given the time and opportunity to practice and solve problems through groups and individual activities. Technology in the classroom has steadily grown over the past few years. I feel it has become an essential part of the classroom today. The use of technology and the information it can provide is available and I need to implement it in my lessons. Technology opens up a new and exciting avenue for teachers to use.

Another reason that technology helps the learning of students is that it can inspire a student to try to exceed in school(Qurzweil blog team). A fifth grade teacher stated in a U.S. Department of Education article “Technology is the ultimate carrot for students. It something they want to

Before a school approves of technology usage in school, some factors to consider would be

& Chan T.W. (2005) Introduction to the special issue on wireless and mobile technologies in education. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 21, 159–168

In this digital age we have a tendency to be fully dependent on electronics particularly on mobile devices. There are various mobile electronic devices: laptop, tablet, and cellular phone to name a few. In the early 1990’s is when students started bringing cellular phones to school even with the bulkiness to them back then. Schools began to place a restriction on the use of mobile phones in the classroom. Back then, the cell phone was only able to make calls, receive calls and text message. Now, the smart phone is the most favorable with students since they are able to stay connected to a wide variety of social media. For example, “Students can access the Internet, send or receive text messages, check email, and even video chat with others

Including technology in a student’s learning program is simple and many schools are beginning to utilize this new form of teaching.

Network availability and capacity is proceeding at an intense speed and this suggest the need for education to keep up with the trending accessibility changes. Learning and teaching can happen anywhere a student and the teacher has access. Suppleness in the delivery of instruction and learning denotes the possibility of getting everyone educated by removing the time and location constraints. Often, mobile devices can also cut down on monetary constraints as well. There is a fast-growing quantity of free or cost-efficient educational apps for mobile

When exposed to programs like blackboard in high school, students would already be prepared to use educational web pages in college. While a common perception is that not every person has access to some form of mobile technology, Dr. Teresa Franklin points out that high school students have an ample amount of access to some form of handheld technology. Dr. Franklin demonstrates through a survey how increasingly available wireless and mobile devices are for high school students. The survey shows ten percent of these students have access to a tablet like an iPad, forty-four percent of them have access to a smart phone, and sixty-seven percent of students have access to a laptop. This establishes that the students have hefty amounts of access to some type of mobile device; moreover, it means that implementing this mobile technology in the high school classroom would not be cumbersome and certainly not detrimental when universities all over, like University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Francis Marion University and others, use this technology in and

Internet applications used in elementary and secondary schools continue to develop. Typically, the Internet is a communication tool for teachers and parents to remain up-to-date with regard to classroom activities. Everything from homework assignments to scheduled activities and pictures can be found on classroom websites, keeping everyone connected to educational resources. Elementary and secondary schools provide students with the opportunity to learn more about computer

Technology is important in our education today. Technology can be a vital tool in enhancing and improving the instruction for our students. Our technology today allows our students to search resources, use social media sites, and locate almost anything that they may be researching for a specific subject. Teachers need to know how to incorporate these tools into their curriculum in a way that facilitates and enhances student learning. Three technology tools that can be used inside the classroom effectively are classroom website, interactive white boards, and TED Ed.

Smartphone as a device has wireless connectivity and when that is combined with social application and is customized for learning leads to open doors for both staff and students, granting them access to information that may have been out of their reach before but now stand at the tip of their fingers to be accessed anytime. As we look around the educational sector in the world today we see that incorporation of student owned gadget into the classroom is turning into a solution to the problems of

One of the most important features of a computer is the access to information it provides. Because the Internet acts as a virtual library, students can have access to nearly any piece of information imaginable. This can be highly advantageous in the classroom as it can enhance the information on any subject. The downside is that sometimes students will stumble across unreliable information online. Computers also save time in many ways. Not only can computers access millions of pages of information on the Internet, but they can do this in an incredibly fast time. What once might have taken hours of library research might now only take a few minutes on the computer. In addition to the Internet, tools such as word processors, presentation software, and spreadsheets have added efficiency. They eliminate much of the time that traditional writing, presentations, and creating tables and forms once required. “Wi-Fi has become a universal expectation among college students, and their attitudes towards technology are a good indicator of broad changes underway in how we as a society learn, work and communicate,” said Edgar Figueroa. Wifi at school can be really helpful to

Why the concern over mobile technology in our schools for K-12 education? Mobile technology has expanded tremendously over the past few years. The use of having mobile devices in the classroom allows students instant access to the latest news, information, statistics, etc. Mobile technology opens a multitude of learning that was only accessible through encyclopedias before, but has expanded and has endless possibilities. Many schools have a school wide wireless implementation of mobile devices and others have limited access to wireless devices. The opportunity of instructional designers is endless in developing more integration of technology in lesson plans to make the connections between the old ways and with the integration of technology into the classrooms. The following literature reviews will explore the growing trend of mobile technology in the K-12 education.

Most schools, both local and international, are now venturing into using mobile computing devices for classroom instruction. Thus, La Salle Green Hills (LSGH) pioneered the use of tablets in the classrooms at the later part of 2012 and named this endeavor as the PERsonal Learning device (PEARL) program. During its initial stage, students of the honors classes were selected as its participants. On the following year around eight to nine sections in the High School level opted to join the said program. However, during the course of the said program implementation, certain issues have been raised that needed to be addressed by the school especially in the area of student learning.

One advantage of using smartphones and other electronic devices is that they have all the tools necessary to boost students’ learning. They can be used effectively in the classroom as they include amazing learning apps, a teacher can assess students learning and knowledge via e.g. polleverywhere.com, which costs nothing when you conduct a survey of fewer than 40 participants. Electronic devices in the classroom can be also useful in delivering materials directly to their personal devices. One such website is School Town, which allows students and teachers to collaborate through discussions. In addition, students can watch tutorials recorded by a teacher in order to gain new knowledge, listen to the instructions on how the assignment should be done, or strengthen the areas of needs. Finally, in order to promote participation, students may use avatars or nick names; this will ensure anonymity and encourage reluctant students to share their ideas.