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on June 09, 2022

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Differentiation through Technology

Guifre, M. (2022). Educational Technology for All Learners. Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/deTechtive1/?ref=page_internal (Links to an external site.) International Society for Technology in Education. (2000). ISTE. https://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards-for-teachers (Links to an external site.) Roblyer, M. D., & Doering, A. H. (2010). Integrating educational technology into teaching (Fifth ed.). Allyn and Bacon. Spector, J. M. (2008). Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (Third ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Media Fluency and Your Classroom

Media is no longer something that is just consumed. Students are creators and contributors in their classrooms and have an world wide audience outside of school walls. This has created the need for a new type of awareness that the classroom teacher must consider. While the skill was once how to decode books and text, students must now decode a variety of media and make sense of it. This requires a larger focus on critical thinking skills regarding the sources that they gather information from. As an example, reporting on scientific discoveries through internet sources are often oversimplified (Majetic & Pellegrino, 2018) Students need the ability to decode the article to understand better what context and other information might be missing and then be able to track that information down to complete the research. It is easy to understand this from a scientific perspective as wrong information could send a student on a road to nowhere....

One way to teach social responsibility in your educational technology classroom.

Cell phone use in classrooms is one of the teachers’ modern-day concerns. What is surprising to know is that this phenomenon isn’t just limited to classrooms it has reached a peak in the corporate world as well (Binford, 2017). People in general have a hard time putting down those cell phones. These powerful devices can be a powerful tool for both industry and education. At the same time, they can distract and slow productivity to a crawl. So what is the solution? Education of course. It would be ridiculous to believe that your students would leave their time in education and enter the business world and change their habits. So, the social protocols that you train them on now will translate into how they decide to utilize personal devices in the future when they enter the workforce. In your classroom establish lessons specifically addressing this complex issue. Not rules per se, but rather educational moments that are built to instruct on ...

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