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Course 1077

Teaching Tech Savvy Students: Embracing the Digital Classroom

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Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $575 for all 3 modules complete

Technology has become a fixture in the modern classroom. Although sometimes seen as a distraction, technology can actually be a powerful tool for learning. The most effective educators of today have embraced technology and know how to use it to their advantage. In this course you will learn how to reach "Digital Age" students, how to enhance your lesson plans and activities with technology, and how to engage students with technology-based projects.

What You'll Learn

Technology has played a role in every aspect of the lives of today’s students. They are used to receiving information quickly, having choices and multitasking. In order to maximize student learning, teachers need to adapt their way of presenting material.

In this module, you will learn simple ways to enrich your teaching style by using technology. Easily broaden your teaching comfort zone using the techniques provided by our expert, Robin Sellers. This module will help you:

• Understand the difference between the way you and your students learn
• Create an interactive classroom environment that fosters learning through technology
• Keep current with the latest in technology so you can be a resource for your students

Highlights

Profile of a Digital-Age Student

• How technology has shaped students’ perspectives on life
• Advantages to using new-age teaching vs. traditional classroom instruction
• Why today’s students process information and learn differently than you

7 Steps to Reaching Your Students

• How to create a learner-centered instructional environment
• 6 Question test to see what type of teacher you are
• Engage students on multiple levels using Bloom’s Taxonomy

Integrating Technology into your Classroom

• Proven START Method to creating a more technology-friendly teaching environment
• Instructional techniques that allow students freedom to choose how they learn
• 6 Important reasons you should use technology in the classroom

What You'll Learn

There is no doubt that technology has immensely impacted our lives, so it should come as no surprise that it is beginning to weave its way through everyday classroom activities. Now that students are growing up with technology at their finger tips, it is more important than ever to make sure that educators incorporate technology into their lessons, activities, and classrooms. Not only will technology excite students and enhance lessons, but with smart use of the internet, it is also free and easily accessible.

In this module, you will learn how to integrate technology into your classroom, lesson plans, and even parent communications. You will discover:

• The steps of technology integration
• Various technologies that can enhance classroom activities
• Different methods of increasing parent involvement
• How to increase your classroom library without tapping into your budget
• Strategies for reaching students when you aren’t in the classroom

Highlights

Technology Integration

• Understand the steps of technology integration
• Identify your current stage of technology integration and what you should do to increase integration in your classroom
• Learn what types of technology other teachers are using in their classrooms

Strategies to Enhance Teacher Resources and Presentations

• Apply search engine techniques that will increase the availability of effective resources
• Explore multiple technologies to expand presentation abilities and styles
• Incorporate new technologies to cater to unique student needs

Strategies to Improve Student and Parent Communication

• Utilize new techniques to analyze and track student performance
• Incorporate blogs, email, and websites to easily reach students
• Increase parent communication with social networking and surveys

What You'll Learn

The effective educators of today know how to use technology to their advantage. Do you? In this module, you’ll learn why technology-based projects are a powerful way to bring your lesson plans to life. Discover how to guide your students through the Roman Coliseum, the Pyramids of Egypt and the Safaris of Africa with a few clicks of a mouse. Learn how to tap into the vast resources of the internet to create exciting, engaging lesson plans and classroom activities – regardless of age level or content area.

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Utilize the internet to promote a stimulating classroom environment
• Integrate technology projects into effective ‘bell ringer’ engagement activities
• Develop Web 2.0 activities that appeal to digital/visual learners
• Guide your class through a “Virtual Field Trip”

Highlights

Digital Engagement Strategies

• Instant "bell-ringer" activities that encourage creative thinking
• Web 2.0 project rubric and assessment strategies
• Digital tools that promote vocabulary, literary, math and geography skills
• Blogs and photo sites that stimulate students’ brains

Virtual Travel – The Field Trips of the Future

• Traveling the world through Virtual Tour sites
• Using Web Cams as a data collecting tools
• Exploring the world topography through Google Earth
• Experiencing historic events through panoramic photo imaging

Web 2.0 for All Grade Levels and Content Areas

• Digital images that capture students' attention
• Quick and easy student project options
• Web-based project publishing and collaboration
• Boosting reading and writing skills through the Web

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

• Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
• Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
• Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
• Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
• Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
• You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.

Materials & Assessment

Lectures	Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources	Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment	To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge	To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.