Dr. Alice Christie's Technology Integration Workshop for Pendergast School District

Readings

• Constructivism
  
  
  • Constructivism, Technology, and the Future of Classroom Learning
  • Teaching with New Eyes
    
    
• Using the Internet in Education
  
  
  • Hobbes' Internet Timeline
    
  • An Interview with Jamie McKenzie
  • Networking K-12 Education
  • The Internet Bandwagon
  • A Wired Village: Blacksburg, Virginia
    
    
• Using the Internet in Education: The Issue Debated
  
  
  • Point/Counterpoint: Should Schools Be Wired To The Internet? YES by Al Gore
  • Point/Counterpoint: Should Schools Be Wired To The Internet? NO by David Gelernter
    
    
• Searching the Internet, Managing Bookmarks AND Web Quests
  
  
  • Seven Steps Toward Better Searching
    
    
  • Effective Use of Search Engines
  • WebFront's Internet Corner: Effective Use if Search Engines
  • How to Search the Web: A Guide To Search Tools
  • Step Zero: What to Do Before Searching
  • Specialized Search Engines and Directories
    
    
• Internet Ethics and Copyright Issues
  
  
  • Setting the Stage
    
    TEACHING BY EXAMPLE: The Los Angeles Unified School District faces $5 million in fines for illegally copying computer software. Acting on a tip, the Business Software Alliance audited the school's computers and found 1,400 pirated copies of applications such as Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop. School Board member David Tukofsky whined that the software companies should leave the giant California district alone, ignore the copyright violations and instead give the district "an offer of training, reconciliation and understanding." (New York Times) ...People who wonder "Why can't Johnny read?" may now wonder instead "Why doesn't David know it's wrong to steal?"
    

   

  • The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
  • Copyright Issues on the Web
    
    
• Using the Internet for Research
  
  
  • Evaluating Quality on the Net
  • Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
  • Brave New World Technology Makes Social Studies Come Alive
    
    
• Information Literacy
  
  
  • Information Literacy: A Position Paper by the American Library Association
  • Information Literacy Blueprint
  • Information Literacy Skills
    
    
• Building Global Learning Communities
  
  
  • The Learning Community How technology can forge links between school and home
  • TERC Projects
    
    
• Web Quests
  
  
  • What Is a WebQuest
    
  • WebQuests: A Tool for Learners A multimedia presentation
  • Some Thoughts About WebQuest by Bernie Dodge
  • Building Blocks of a WebQuest Read EACH of the six sections of this article.
  • WebQuests: A Strategy for Scaffolding Higher Level Learning
    
    
• MailMerge
  
  
  • Mail Merge Overview: A PowerPoint Presentation
  • Mail Merge How To's
    
    
• Spreadsheets
  
  
  • The Spreadsheet Page Explore and describe several links. No need to summarize!
  • Introduction to Math and Spreadsheets Just Explore. No need to summarize!
    
    
• Databases
  
  
  • Educational Telecomputing Projects: Information Collections
  • Classroom Questions and Databases
    The Nine Planets
  • Email Address Databases
    
    
• Technology Transforming Education
  
  
  • A New Model for Education
  • An Interview with Jamie McKenzie: K-12 Technology Issues
  • Wired Schools: It Takes a Village
  • Internet as Curriculum
  • The Next Step Now That Schools Have Technology, It's Time to let Technology Transform Schooling
  • Learning Together Teachers and Students Tackle new Technologies Side by Side
  • Brave New World Technology Makes Social Studies Come Alive
    
    
• Technology and Pedagogy
  
  
  • Integrating the Internet
  • The Internet as Curriculum As schools rush to connect to the Information Highway, what are the best ways to employ the Internet in support of the curriculum?
  • The Next Step Now That Schools Have Technology, It's Time to let Technology Transform Schooling
  • Learning Together Teachers and Students Tackle new Technologies Side by Side
    
    
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• Evaluating the Impact of Technology
  
  
  • Revealing the Elephant: The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education
  • The Computer Delusion Thought-provoking article from the Atlantic Monthly.
  • The Web Report Card: A five-part article
    • The Web Report Card: Overview
    • The Web Report Card
    • The Debate
    • Writing Our Schools: The Cost
    • The Survey
      
      

Other Readings

• Articles on Using the Internet and Writing Read any of a long list of articles on the Internet and writing.
  
  
• Email Activities in a Bilingual Writing Class
  
  
• School Renewal Online One-Stop-Shopping for School Improvement
  
  
• Are You Being Serv'd? A Primer on Listservs for School Leaders
  
  
• Being Digital Learners What happens when MIT and Boston school kids get together
  
  
• The Home Page for Tech-Savvy Teachers
  
  
• Fast Forward: Future Internet
  
  
• District Technology Planning for All Students
  
  
• The CyberPilot's License -Ethical use of Web and online learning environments
  
  
• Integrating Technology into Primary Classrooms
  
  
• The Bilingual Technologist
  
  
• Is Your Child's Teacher Computer Literate?
  
  
• Internet Safety for Kids
  
  
• Myths and Realities about Technology in K-12 Schools
  
  
• K-12 Videoconferencing
  
  
• Rubrics and Assessment
  
  
• Internet/Cyberspace and Learning
  
  
• Policy Issues in Using Technology For Engaged Learning
  
  
• The Great Divide: Closing the gap between technology haves and have-nots
  
  
• The Next Step: Now that schools have technology, it's time to let the technology transform schooling
  
  
• Being Digital Learners: What happens when MIT and Boston schoolkids get together
  
  
• Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century