Improving Teacher Training with Technology

So many times I have sat through a boring training wondering how and why I was going to incorporate whatever that great idea was. With the growing uses of technology our schools should be providing more training on how to incorporate these into our lessons. I think that the administration or librarian should offer a class once a month on technology with a specific topic, i.e. blogs, wikis, trackstar and such. Intergrating technology can be overwhelming and if shown how easy it can be then we will have more teachers on board.

Science Lesson Improved with Technology

I found this idea on the site below along with others. Science students did research on solar cookers, cookers that used the sun to cook. The students chose a design and then gathered the materials they needed. After the cooker was made they then evaluated how well they worked. I think this is an awesome way to get reluctant students involved.


Using Technology to Improve Instruction and Raise Student Achievement

Improving Instruction with Technology

My fellow teachers on my team and myself came up with a great way to incorporate technology into a literacy lesson and an author study. The children worked as a group to choose an author. They began their research online looking for certain information on the author. During the course of the research they were also reading books by that author and writing book reviews and summaries on the laptops. After the group had gathered all the research and wrote the book reviews and summaries they then took all the information and compiled it into a powerpoint. The students really enjoyed this activity and asked everyday if we would be working on it. I know that anytime you incorporate technology into the lesson the students will be engaged. Below is a link to my trackstar that has the lesson all mapped out for you.

Trackstar Author Study Lesson