Using Technology to Teach Using Technology to Teach Students with Behavioral Students with Behavioral and Emotional Difficultiesand Emotional Difficulties

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Why?

To provide “hands on” instruction

To maximize learning opportunities

To enlarge their world

You have made him normalYou have made him normal

Handout1. ASSESS YOUR RESOURCES:

a. Student skills and attitudesb. Teacher skills and attitudesc. Access computer timed. Resources: hardware and software

2. GOALS AND PLANNINGa. Get wired with Internet access and a reliable computer atGet informed: Visit a professional organization’s Web site regularlyc. Get e-ducated: Subscribe to an e-mail newsletter - Two examples include:

The Internet TourBus and Computer Hope

d. Get involved: join other teachers using online dialogue — Examples include: Computer Hope , Tapped In and WWWEDU

e. Get trained: Find out who does technology training in your school or try: Training Cafe or Online Training Modules

3. INTREGRATIONa. Manage with technology: Use technology to manage your classes. Average grades with a spreadsheet, use mail merge to send parent letters, and surf the Internet for lesson plans. Focus on using technology yourself before introducing it to your students.b. Start small: Set an initial goal of including technology in one content area or unit a month. Have students write a letter with a word processing program, create a graph in a spreadsheet program, or practice math skills using content software.c. Surf in shallow waters: Surfing students misspell site addresses and become distracted by commercial sites. Focus class research by hand- picking relevant, age-appropriate Web sites. For help, check out 42eXplore or the Education World site reviews

d. Online learning tools: Learn how to use WebQuests, scavenger hunts, and other online learning tools -- and how to make your own -- at Ed Index (Click Online Learning Basics on the drop-down menu.)e. Test online: Save instructional time and motivate your kids by creating, administering, and grading tests online. Check out the Education World article Motivate While You Integrate Technology: Online Assessment for more information.f. Know when to say no: Technology isn’t perfect; it can’t replace face-to face teaching. Learn to determine when technology helps -- and hurts -- the learning process and use it accordingly. Your curriculum, not your computer, should be the focus of technology integration.

by Lorrie Jackson in Education World (Copyright © 2002) found on http://educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech130.shtml

Assessing & intergrading guide

1. Assess your resources

2. Goals and planning

3. Integration

Blogginge-mail

PowerPointonline projectslearning games

webcamscreating websites

telemonteringcd yearbooks

The students at Camelot Elementary tell Education World how computers add

to their learning:

-- -- Betsy H., grade 6Betsy H., grade 6

"We use our computers for "We use our computers for research for reports. We use research for reports. We use programs on the computers programs on the computers for writing our assignments. for writing our assignments. Sometimes we talk to people Sometimes we talk to people

from other places and see from other places and see them when we talk to them." them when we talk to them."

-- -- Matt A., grade 6Matt A., grade 6

"The most interesting project "The most interesting project I've done is our special interest I've done is our special interest

project. Casey, Devion, and I did project. Casey, Devion, and I did it on BMX riding. We used the it on BMX riding. We used the Internet for information and Internet for information and

Microsoft Word for the writing. Microsoft Word for the writing. Then we put it all in Then we put it all in

HyperStudio and showed it on HyperStudio and showed it on the SmartBoard."the SmartBoard."

-- -- Aimee S., grade 6Aimee S., grade 6

““I love to go to the after-school I love to go to the after-school newspaper club every Monday. newspaper club every Monday. We publish a newspaper on the We publish a newspaper on the Internet about our school and Internet about our school and what is going on in and around what is going on in and around

it."it."

Bored Before Technology

Engaged After Technology