Integrating Educational Technology Into

Teaching: Transforming Learning Across

Disciplines

Eighth Edition

Chapter 4
Technology Device and
Software Resources for
Classroom Productivity

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Learning Objectives (1 of 3)

4.1 Identify hardware and software configurations that meet

teaching and learning needs in the classroom. (ISTE
Standards for Educators: 1—Learner; 2—Leader; 5—
Designer; 6—Facilitator)
4.2 Select integration strategies for writing and publishing
software that meet teaching and learning needs in the
classroom and reflect learning sciences research. (ISTE
Standards for Educators: 1—Learner; 4—Collaborator, 5—
Designer; 6—Facilitator)

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Learning Objectives (2 of 3)

4.3 Select integration strategies for representation of

content concepts or developed knowledge that meet
teaching and learning needs in the classroom and reflect
learning sciences research. (ISTE Standards for
Educators: 1—Learner; 3—Citizen; 4—Collaborator; 5—
Designer; 6—Facilitator; 7—Analyst)
4.4 Select integration strategies for data collection and
analysis that meet teaching and learning needs in the
classroom and reflect learning sciences research. (ISTE
Standards for Educators: 1—Learner; 3—Citizen; 5—
Designer; 6—Facilitator; 7—Analyst)

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Learning Objectives (3 of 3)

4.5 Integrate planning and organizing software that meet

teaching and learning needs in the classroom. (ISTE
Standards for Educators: 5—Designer; 7—Analyst)
4.6 Use material generator software that meets teaching
and learning needs in the classroom. (ISTE Standards for
Educators: 5—Designer; 6—Facilitator; 7—Analyst)
4.7 Adopt assessment software that meet teaching and
learning needs in the classroom and reflect learning
sciences research. (ISTE Standards for Educators: 1—
Learner; 5—Designer; 6—Facilitator; 7—Analyst)

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Technology Integration in Action: Can You
Afford a Car?
• Phase 1: Analysis of Learning and Teaching Assets and Needs
– Step 1: Analyze problems of practice (POPs)
– Step 2: Assess technological resources
– Step 3: Identify technological possibilities

• Phase 2: Design of the Integration Framework

– Step 4: Decide on learning objectives and assessments
– Step 5: Design integration strategies and determine relative advantage
– Step 6: Prepare instructional environment and implement the lesson

• Phase 3: Post-Instruction Analysis and Revisions

– Step 7: Analyze lesson results and impact
– Step 8: Make revisions based on results
– Step 9: Share lessons, revisions, and outcomes with other peer
teachers
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Introduction to Technology Productivity
Resources

Productivity resources typically do not contain

instructional material.

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Configurations of Digital Devices

• Innovation stations
• The one-computer classroom
• Classroom computers
• Mobile carts of computing devices
• Computer laboratories
• Student-supplied devices (e.g., (BYOD)
• School-supplied one-to-one (1:1) computing

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Alignment of Device Configurations with
Pedagogical Approaches
• Whole-class lecture or demo: All configurations
• Whole class independent work: Mobile carts, Computer lab,
1:1 devices
• Flipped/inverted: Computer lab, student BYOD,1:1 computing
• Centers, small group: One-computer classroom, classroom
computers, mobile carts, student BYOD,1:1 computing
• Collaboration: Mobile carts, 1:1 computing
• Independent work: One-computer classroom, classroom
computers, mobile carts, computer lab, student BYOD,1:1
computing

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Productivity Software

• Software suites
• Open source software
• Cloud-based software
• Mobile software
• Desktop software
• File exchange compatibility

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Productivity Uses

• Writing and publishing

• Representation
• Data collection and analysis
• Planning and organizing
• Instructional material generation
• Assessment

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Writing and Publishing Software for
Teaching and Learning

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Writing and Publishing Software

• Word processing
• Desktop publishing

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Integration Strategies for Writing and
Publishing Software
• Teachers create documents for instruction and administrative tasks
– Saves time to create and modify materials
– Enhances document appearance
– Allows document sharing and exchange
– Allows collaboration on documents

• Learners write and publish to represent their developing knowledge

– Supports the writing process
– Facilitates collaborative writing projects
– Supports meaningful language use and language learning
– Encourages writing across the curriculum
– Provides outlet for reporting research findings
– Offers development of creative works

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General Instructional Strategies for
Teaching Software to Students

• Prepare for teaching

• Demonstrate the basics
• Assign individual practice
• Demonstrate advanced features
• Assign more individual practice
• Demonstrate procedures with new files
• Assign more individual practice

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Key Design Strategies for Writing and
Publishing Software
• Use a limited number of typefaces (fonts)
• Use a different font for title and text
• Use appropriate sizes for type
• Avoid overuse of type styles
• Match text and background colors
• Use visual cues
• Use white space well
• Create and use graphics carefully
• Avoid common text format and text break errors
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Benefits of Writing and Publishing
Software

• Better writing quality

• More writing
• Fewer mechanical errors
• Increased engagement in revision
• More frequent publication of work
• Better attitudes toward writing
• Benefits emerge when technology resources are used in
the context of optimal writing instruction

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Challenges of Using Writing and
Publishing Software

• The age at which to introduce word processing

• The need to teach keyboarding skills
• The effects of word processing on handwriting
• The impact on assessment
• The introduction of inadvertent errors in text

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Representation Software for Teaching
and Learning

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Representation Software

• Draw or paint software

• Image editors
• Media collections
• Infographic software
• Presentation software

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Integration Strategies for Representation
Software (1 of 3)

• Teachers represent content ideas to

– Enhance spoken information
– Enable multimedia-rich content
– Help make content polished and professional
– Help organize thinking about a topic
– Serve as an enduring learning artifact

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Integration Strategies for Representation
Software (2 of 3)

• Teacher integration strategies include

– Demonstrate content concepts
– Illustrate problems and solutions
– Present information summaries
– Repeat presentations
– Assess students’ learning
– Offer tutorials or review of content

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Integration Strategies for Representation
Software (3 of 3)
• Teachers should ensure
– Students focus on content learning more than design
elements
– Students prioritize multimedia or hypermedia expressions
of content than linear texted bullets
• Student integration strategies include
– Collaboration on representations
– Book reports
– Interactive storybooks
– Building multimedia literacies
– Representation of research through infographics
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Key Design Strategies for Representations
• Use large type
• Contrast text and background with colors
• Minimize amount of text
• Keep representations simple
• Avoid too many “fancy fonts”
• Avoid gratuitous graphics/sounds
• Use graphics, not just text
• Design for a light room
• Avoid reading text aloud in oral presentation
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Benefits of Using Representation Software

• Shares content information

• Engages and focuses students
• Allows for immediate instructional adjustments when
using assessment-based representations
• Better learning and achievement
• Supports communication for young children
• Supports content-rich understandings

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Challenges of Using Representation
Software

• Lack of focus on message content

• Lack of coherent visual design
• Tendency toward a singular (linear) presentation format

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Data and Analysis Software for
Teaching and Learning

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Data and Analysis Software

• Online surveys
• Spreadsheet
• Statistical
• Database
• Charting, graphing and visualization

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Integration Strategies for Data and
Analysis Software (1 of 2)

• Teachers engage in data collection and analysis to

– Prepare classroom materials
– Organize information
– Complete calculations
• Teacher integration strategies include
– Polling students
– Saving time
– Organizing displays of information
– Examining student achievement data
– Building visual teaching demonstrations
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Integration Strategies for Data and
Analysis Software (2 of 2)

• Student integration strategies include

– Collect and analyze data
– Support posing and testing hypotheses
– Identify sources of data
– Support visualization
– Increase motivation to work with numbers
– Support mathematical problem solving

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Benefits of Using Data and Analysis
Software

• Helps learners visualize numerical and scientific concepts

across subject areas
• Helps develop teachers’ and students’ data literacy skills
• Expands opportunities for students to create and interpret
data visualizations

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Challenges of Using Data and Analysis
Software

• Limited teacher confidence and proficiency in data and

analysis
• Establishing optimal learning conditions, such as hands-
on, project-based learning using real-world data
• Misconceptions that students are technologically and
data knowledgeable

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Planning and Organizing Software for
Teaching

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Planning and Organizing Software

• Lesson planners
– Develop, document, or share lessons
• Scheduling, calendar, and time management
– Organize time and plan activities
• Outlining and concept mapping
– Curriculum mapping and development
– Think through ideas or topics
– Visualize systems

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Instructional Material Generators

Help teachers produce instructional materials for the

classroom

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Instructional Material Generator Software

• Web design software

• Whiteboard activity software
• Worksheet and puzzle generators
• Individual Education Plan (IEP) generators
• Graphic document makers
• PDF and forms makers

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Assessment Software

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Assessment Software Options

• Student response systems (SRS) or clickers

• Rubric and test generators
• Computer-based testing systems
• Digital portfolio systems
• Electronic gradebook
• Student information systems (SIS)

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