Classroom teachers demonstrate how their students use videoconferencing to share ideas, conduct scientific investigations, and communicate with field researchers. Students and teachers have distinctive personalities, and this session's presenters have found a way to arrange student seating in configurations that will enhance student learning. Session attendees learn about specific activities students can do that will fit their personality and improve their learning. Emphasis is placed on discovering how to fit the eight multiple intelligences into any subject, utilizing both student and teacher strengths and weaknesses. Workshop participants receive a number of inventive ideas to implement in their districts, schools, and classrooms, as they explore technology infusion based on the National Educational Technology Standards and state curriculum standards.
Presenters show innovative and exciting lessons created by teachers using a variety of technologies.
Media in the Middle illustrates the level of success middle level students can have with cooperative, constructivist technology projects. This session explores a 9th grade social studies classroom as students collaborate, analyze, evaluate, and project historical concepts through a Web-based media environment. Using basic media tools, basic historical knowledge, and cooperative groups, students were able to demonstrate proficiency on local and state social studies standards by producing media reports for a larger school Web site. The Web sites of major newspapers, magazines, and news networks offer a variety of tools for both student and teacher. The immediacy and detail of news enables teachers to work with their students in the real world of everyday information.