Fears vs. Reality
Name one fear of integrating tech into the classroom.
Varied responses.
What was one of the two things that owning and using technology established in teens?
What is...
Social status
Developed Identity
Tech is commonly found in ELA classrooms. True or False?
What is... False.
“Technology is both a facilitator of _____ and a medium of _____” (Biancarosa and Snow, 2006, p. 19).
What is... Literacy
Technology can be boring or frightening to _________ thinkers.
What is... Humanist
Integrating tech into student work and instruction can provide...
What is... Students with meaningful ways to express themselves while engaging with literacy skills.
How did the interviewers define literacy?
What is... “The ability to read and write across a wide variety of disciplines, genres, and materials with increasing skill, flexibility, and insight” (p. 3).
What is one technology that exceptional learners can use in the classroom?
Varied responses.
Definition of humanism.
What is... "An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings"
“The researchers indicated that _____ _____ cater better to individual differences, thus supporting reading and comprehension…” (Biancarosa and Snow, 2006, p. 7)
What is... Digital scaffolds
How many total students were interviewed in the focus group?
What is... 15
“A study on the impact of _____ use on 259 middle school students’ achievement found that, after one year, students using _____ showed significantly higher achievement on nearly all measures than their peers with comparable starting achievement levels who did not use _____ (Gulek & Demirtas, 2005).”
What is... Laptop
What the Clinton-Gore administration wanted to be done by the 21st century.
What is... They wanted students to be technologically literate.
What was one of the three major findings of the study?
What is...
1) Teens used social media and devices almost exclusively for socializing,
2) They were interested in using tech to improve literacy, but did not appear integrate technology into learning on their own; and
3) 8th graders were much tech-savvier, even in their suggestions for tech application to literacy learning than younger middle schoolers.
What was one of the two things the interviewers wanted to discover?
What are urban teen students’ perspectives on their use of technology and on technology-infused group culture?
What are their perspectives about the applications of technology for school-related learning, particularly for language and literacy instruction?
What is a sip-and-puff system?
What is... A technology that allows people with physical disabilities to use the mouth, tongue, or cheeks to control an electronic device.