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Course Description
This course provides learners the opportunity to be better prepared practitioners in a 21st century learning environment. It is designed to give participants the knowledge and confidence to implement emerging technologies to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and provide supportive interaction in the classroom. Learners use instructional media and technology to encourage development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
Learning Objectives
1. Use digital tools and resources to personalize learning activities and assessments in order to address students’ diverse learning styles, and abilities.
2. Use digital information and technology, in a legal and ethical manner, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.
3. Use current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and apply information resources to support research and learning.
4. Demonstrate collaborative knowledge construction with students, colleagues, and others.
5. Use technology as a way to communicate with students, parents, and community.
Wisconsin Teaching Standards
Standard #4: Teachers know how to teach.
The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology, to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
Standard #6: Teachers communicate well.
The teacher uses effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.
Research Rationale
To demonstrate my ability to reach Wisconsin Teaching Standards 4 & 6, I continued my research of emerging technologies that increase engagement, collaboration, and achievement in the classroom. Many of the tools researched and practiced either contribute directly to my success in delivering content as a teacher or serve as platforms to collaborate as a class, share content among students, or enhance delivery methods to individual learners. Useful technology applications will continue to evolve. Understanding how to find the tools that suit specific purposes and subjects will continue to be a primary responsibility in my progress as an educator. Below is a compilation of the tools and discoveries that best suit the implementation of technology in the art and design classroom.
Web 2.0 Applications and Reflective Journal
Essential and Supplemental Reading Response Log
Teaching Digital Art Making Applications
Below is a short sample of a lesson teaching digital art making methods to grade 7 students. In this lesson, students became familiar with digital image making and the use of clip art to construct basic compositions in a web-based program called Sketch. Students then learned to save their compositions to their Chromebooks, attach and upload their work to Google Classroom, and turn in projects through the classroom page. Beyond grade 7, students more frequently turn in projects in the art classroom by using Google Classroom, Seesaw, and a variety of other digital file-sharing applications.
Google Sites
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