Technology In Education

Welcome to my new blog!!  I will be writing about the many tools educators can use in their classroom – whether they have one computer or many!

Here is the Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents (TICA) checklist Phase 2. Don Leu and others have been conducting research at the University of Connecticut on how students learn with technology. They have developed this checklist of skills to determine a student’s level of success in various categories of necessary skills needed to effectively comprehend information. The researchers have sought to answer these main questions:

1. What are the new skills, strategies, and dispositions required for successful reading comprehension and learning on the Internet?

2. How can we most effectively prepare our youth for these new literacies?

http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/iesproject/documents.html

Attached is the TICA checklist of Basic Skills.  This is the Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents developed by Don Leu at the University of Connecticut.  This is the Phase I portion of this checklist.  I will be posting and discussing the Phase II portion in my next post.

So, you have some new technology equipment and you’re ready to start tackling the use of computers in your classroom.  The possibilities of teaching with technology are virtually endless.  Finding enough websites to meet your needs to likely not an issue.  The problem is “Where do I start?”

Like Stephen Covey et. al, you need to Begin With The End In Mind.  Find out what is is you want to teach your students and then work backwards.

Once you have determined what you want your students to learn, it’s time to find out what they already know.  In my next post, I will present the Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents (TICA) checklists (Leu, et. al., University of Connecticut) that you can use with your students.

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