Presented at Lake Forest College on October 30th, 2014.

1. Classroom Integration of Technology
Spiro Bolos
New Trier High School
boloss@nths.net

2. Why Teach
with
Technology?

3. “Technology is not a fix for poorly designed instruction.

4. The effectiveness of technology depends on how teachers are able to integrate it into instruction” (Borich 207).

5. “To what degree did my choice of technology foster the instructional goals of my pedagogical approach?” (218)

6. Blogging for the Classroom

7. “In essence, every article is a blog post” (Richardson 5).

8. “We’re seeing a new model of journalism evolving in front of us, one that is much more immediate and much more complex in terms of who to trust and what to believe” (Richardson 4).

70. Social Presentations

71. Social Presentations

72. “Although these digital natives are familiar with communication and gaming technology, they do not necessarily know how to use or learn technologies in the classroom” (Borich 208).

91. Collaborative Lectures

92. The Collaborative Lecture:
A Hybrid Approach

93. The Peculiar Institution

94. Slavery

96. kingdoms

97. absolute monarchies

98. large landowners

99. small landowners

100. slaves

101. protected

102. property

103. hereditary

104. POWs

107. “Even though the class does use PowerPoint presentation to get information across, the present- ation…uses student input for discussions…[T]he presentation does not stand alone as the final voice in what the class is about.

108. Once it is posted on VoiceThread, students can build on it by posting questions, pointing out parallels and contrasts…contradictions, or quoting other sources in order to get a more multifaceted view of the presentation’s subject.” -- Michelle

110. The Caveat: The Shallows

111. “The reality is that the vast majority of educators have taken the work they had students do in the paper, analog world and simply digitized it” (Richardson 9).

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