3.6 Selecting and Evaluating Digital Tools & Resources
Candidates collaborate with teachers and administrators to select and evaluate digital tools and resources for accuracy, suitability, and compatibility with the school technology infrastructure. (PSC 3.6/ISTE 3f)
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The Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project was completed to select an emerging digital tool that teachers need to utilize more in their classroom. I took the lead on this project and collaborated with the instructional technology specialist, a couple of teachers, and administration at Creekview High School. I used the information from our district’s three-year technology plan to guide the selection process. After much consideration and discussion, TED-Ed Lessons Worth Sharing was the selected emerging technology. TED-Ed allows for teachers to differentiate lessons for all students regardless of abilities, cultural background, and ethnic population. The type of presentation engages the students into the information. One quality is that the videos can be used to flip classrooms. According to Purdue University, “TED-Ed is providing an interesting tool that may encourage student engagement outside of class and track student progress in one convenient package. It provides an active learning experience that encourages accountability through tracked student interaction. TED-Ed’s interactive videos may make flipping classrooms just a little bit easier and perhaps more interesting for the students” (Purdue, 2015). Each TED-Ed lesson either comes with questions that are multiple choice or discussion or you can create and design your own. There is already a library that provides pre-made videos that you can adapt and use in your classroom. Through the Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project, I was able to compare the vision of the Cherokee County School District (CCSD) to the mission of TED-Ed, discuss the benefits, the implementation, potential limitations, funding sources, use of technology in the classroom, along with how TED-Ed helps improve student growth in diverse learners.
Standard 3.6, Selecting and Evaluating Digital Tools and Resources provided me the opportunity to collaborate with teachers and administrators to select and evaluate digital tools and resources for accuracy, suitability, and compatibility with the school technology infrastructure. I collaborated with our instructional technology specialist, a couple of teachers, and administration about possible emerging technologies that they found beneficial and necessary to consider. After much research and reference to the CCSD Three-Year Technology Plan, I selected TED-Ed Lessons as the emerging technology to further pursue. In this, I began to evaluate the functionality of the tool and how it could improve student learning. TED-Ed promotes communication at the local and global levels by providing opportunities for teachers to start their own TED-Ed club to develop more global citizens. This tool also provides an opportunity to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students. Through the evaluation process, I explained the benefits, the target population, equipment and software needs, cost, and limitations to have a comprehensible look into this tool and how we could utilize it best in our district. The Three-Year Technology Plan along with the content and student technology standards were used in determining the accuracy, suitability, and compatibility with the school’s technology infrastructure. TED-Ed lessons meet the standards in all regards. Teachers are able to even track student data, students get immediate feedback, and it provides an opportunity to interact with videos that previously were not there. The flipped classroom approach is one of the many ways TED-Ed lesson are utilized in the classroom. The TED-Ed library of videos is continuing to grow daily and if there is a video not already turned into a lesson, the teacher can turn it into their own TED-Ed lesson, which creates flexibility and a new opportunity for the teacher. This is a tool that can grow with students from different grade levels and will grow as more videos are made and refined. The accuracy, suitability, and compatibility will continue to improve and change, which is one of the beneficial aspects of this emerging technology is that it is always adapting and changing to best fit the needs of your classroom. Through the Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project, I presented all of these points and more to create solid evidence to prove that this tool was an emerging technology that needs to be considered and implemented in our classrooms. The project also included an implementation phase of how this tool could effectively be rolled out to a teacher at Creekview High School and through the district.
Completing the Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project provided teachers with an opportunity to learn a new tool that they can readily implement in their classroom. I learned how to effectively present an emerging technology by starting with a description of what the tool is, going through the relativeness of this tool with our current technology standards, content standards, and projections, the specifications to make this possible, the opportunities that this could create, and ways that this could be implemented. I supported my claims through research, which assist in making my claim more reliable. By presenting the entire vision of the emerging tool, educators have an understanding of why this tool is the best one that they need to invest in trying in their classroom. To further improve this project, I would like to add specific examples of how I used this in my classroom and provide student examples as well. I believe that this would make this presentation even more authentic than it currently is. The educators would be able to see how this impacted my students and I could show the student growth and data that it collects.
This artifact impacts faculty development. Through the presentation, teachers are able to see the potential that the TED-Ed lessons can have on their classroom. The project justifies what the tool is, how it can be best utilized, and why it is necessary to implement it into their classroom. The impact can be seen by seeing other teachers utilizing this tool in their classroom and tracking student data through the tool. Teachers can be seen utilizing it as a whole group discussion or individually depending on the outcome the teacher is wanting.
Reference
Instructional Development Center Blog. (n.d.). Retrieved April 5, 2018, from https://www.purdue.edu/learning/blog/?tag=interactive/?paged=2.
The Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project was completed to select an emerging digital tool that teachers need to utilize more in their classroom. I took the lead on this project and collaborated with the instructional technology specialist, a couple of teachers, and administration at Creekview High School. I used the information from our district’s three-year technology plan to guide the selection process. After much consideration and discussion, TED-Ed Lessons Worth Sharing was the selected emerging technology. TED-Ed allows for teachers to differentiate lessons for all students regardless of abilities, cultural background, and ethnic population. The type of presentation engages the students into the information. One quality is that the videos can be used to flip classrooms. According to Purdue University, “TED-Ed is providing an interesting tool that may encourage student engagement outside of class and track student progress in one convenient package. It provides an active learning experience that encourages accountability through tracked student interaction. TED-Ed’s interactive videos may make flipping classrooms just a little bit easier and perhaps more interesting for the students” (Purdue, 2015). Each TED-Ed lesson either comes with questions that are multiple choice or discussion or you can create and design your own. There is already a library that provides pre-made videos that you can adapt and use in your classroom. Through the Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project, I was able to compare the vision of the Cherokee County School District (CCSD) to the mission of TED-Ed, discuss the benefits, the implementation, potential limitations, funding sources, use of technology in the classroom, along with how TED-Ed helps improve student growth in diverse learners.
Standard 3.6, Selecting and Evaluating Digital Tools and Resources provided me the opportunity to collaborate with teachers and administrators to select and evaluate digital tools and resources for accuracy, suitability, and compatibility with the school technology infrastructure. I collaborated with our instructional technology specialist, a couple of teachers, and administration about possible emerging technologies that they found beneficial and necessary to consider. After much research and reference to the CCSD Three-Year Technology Plan, I selected TED-Ed Lessons as the emerging technology to further pursue. In this, I began to evaluate the functionality of the tool and how it could improve student learning. TED-Ed promotes communication at the local and global levels by providing opportunities for teachers to start their own TED-Ed club to develop more global citizens. This tool also provides an opportunity to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students. Through the evaluation process, I explained the benefits, the target population, equipment and software needs, cost, and limitations to have a comprehensible look into this tool and how we could utilize it best in our district. The Three-Year Technology Plan along with the content and student technology standards were used in determining the accuracy, suitability, and compatibility with the school’s technology infrastructure. TED-Ed lessons meet the standards in all regards. Teachers are able to even track student data, students get immediate feedback, and it provides an opportunity to interact with videos that previously were not there. The flipped classroom approach is one of the many ways TED-Ed lesson are utilized in the classroom. The TED-Ed library of videos is continuing to grow daily and if there is a video not already turned into a lesson, the teacher can turn it into their own TED-Ed lesson, which creates flexibility and a new opportunity for the teacher. This is a tool that can grow with students from different grade levels and will grow as more videos are made and refined. The accuracy, suitability, and compatibility will continue to improve and change, which is one of the beneficial aspects of this emerging technology is that it is always adapting and changing to best fit the needs of your classroom. Through the Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project, I presented all of these points and more to create solid evidence to prove that this tool was an emerging technology that needs to be considered and implemented in our classrooms. The project also included an implementation phase of how this tool could effectively be rolled out to a teacher at Creekview High School and through the district.
Completing the Evaluating Emerging Technologies Project provided teachers with an opportunity to learn a new tool that they can readily implement in their classroom. I learned how to effectively present an emerging technology by starting with a description of what the tool is, going through the relativeness of this tool with our current technology standards, content standards, and projections, the specifications to make this possible, the opportunities that this could create, and ways that this could be implemented. I supported my claims through research, which assist in making my claim more reliable. By presenting the entire vision of the emerging tool, educators have an understanding of why this tool is the best one that they need to invest in trying in their classroom. To further improve this project, I would like to add specific examples of how I used this in my classroom and provide student examples as well. I believe that this would make this presentation even more authentic than it currently is. The educators would be able to see how this impacted my students and I could show the student growth and data that it collects.
This artifact impacts faculty development. Through the presentation, teachers are able to see the potential that the TED-Ed lessons can have on their classroom. The project justifies what the tool is, how it can be best utilized, and why it is necessary to implement it into their classroom. The impact can be seen by seeing other teachers utilizing this tool in their classroom and tracking student data through the tool. Teachers can be seen utilizing it as a whole group discussion or individually depending on the outcome the teacher is wanting.
Reference
Instructional Development Center Blog. (n.d.). Retrieved April 5, 2018, from https://www.purdue.edu/learning/blog/?tag=interactive/?paged=2.