Emerging Themes

The Emerging Themes page is the second part of the Powerful Uses of Technology wiki: A Project by the Master in Teaching Year 2 Candidates for 2013-2014, in conjunction with "Investigations in Our Town"

Once you’ve each written your sentences, then, as a group

1. Read through your brainstormed list of guidelines. Ask each other any clarifying questions.
2. Identify the guidelines in your first set of writing that you all agree are key to making educative use of technology.
3. Collectively write a paragraph that (i) explains the gist of each guideline; and (ii) how and why it’s important to keep in mind when developing lessons and units.
4. Paste this paragraph your section below
5. Give your paragraph a title.

===Group One STAGES OF EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY USE Take into account your students' level of familiarity with the technology. This helps to identify your students' level of prior knowledge and potentially how much class time will need to be used teaching students how to use the technology. If that time would be extensive a different method may be required. Use of technology should be tied to learning targets and not viewed as an end in and of itself. This will ensure that the content of the curriculum remains at the forefront of the learning experience. Lessons that use technology should invite students to discover and apply their own new and different ways of using that technology. This will ensure that students are able to transfer their emerging understanding of technological tools beyond the classroom.

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Group Two (put a title for your paragraph that captures the gist of your guideline(s)

Group Three (put a title for your paragraph that captures the gist of your guideline(s)

Group Four (put a title for your paragraph that captures the gist of your guideline(s)

Group Five (put a title for your paragraph that captures the gist of your guideline(s)

Group Six (Essential Guidelines for Educative Uses of Technology)

Group Seven (put a title for your paragraph that captures the gist of your guideline(s)

Part One INDIVIDUAL INSIGHTS

Part Two EMERGING THEMES

Part Three POWERFUL USES OF TECHNOLOGY