ECI501

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ECI 501 Foundations of Curriculum

General Pedagogy

This article explains a summer program in which girls created computer programs. The idea behind the study is to encourage more girls to join careers in technology since currently only around 25% of technological jobs are filled by women.[1]

This article presents the National Educational Technology Standards for Students(NETS)and provides lesson plans by grade level and subject area to meet the standards. [2]

An NEA study that investigates the strides made with educational technology in U.S. schools. [3]

This website, "Tapped In," is the result of a study done. If you become a member, you can do online learning projects, participate in discussions with other educators, take online courses, and network with other educators over the country about technology resources. It looks like it is free to anyone to join. [4]

Grade Levels

Elementary

[5] "Podcasts" This article details how elementary students created podcasts and digital audio tours on a state they had researched.

Critical Inquiry and Multiliteracies in a First Grade Classroom: This article shows how first grade students utilize digital, print, and visual literacies to learn about how to solve social issues in their classroom. The link (although not the full article) is… [6]

Another great article that I found (Although it is just the abstract): Supporting novice elementary mathematics teachers’ induction in professional communities and providing innovative forms of pedagogical content knowledge development through information and communication technology [7]

[[8]] This article talks about using spreadsheets with gifted elementary students. It has ideas for lower and upper elementary students.

Reading Success for Struggling Adolescent Learners. Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy: This article focuses on areas of focus for struggling readers and writers. This was a research based study that uses methods to increase the students academic performance with technology. [9]

“Collaborative Literacy: Blogs and Internet Projects:” This article describes how blogging has been integrated into a third grade classroom in order to get students interested in writing. Students use laptop computers in the classroom to write blog letters to the school mascot, Jefferson Bear. The article also provides information about Internet projects where students from different classrooms collaborate on a Wiki. The students in fourth and fifth grade classes in Connecticut and California research National Parks in the United States and share their research on a class Wiki. [10]

[11] "A Study on Learning Effect among Different Learning Styles in a Web-Based Lab of Science for Elementary School Students" Students with all learning styles in the experimental group (that used the web-based science lab) made better grades than students in the control group who received traditional class instruction. The surveys indicated that the students were more engaged in the web-based program than in traditional textbooks.

"More than just Key Pals" The following article discusses effective ways to integrate Key Pals into the classroom and the benefits of using them. [12] Submitted by Somer Alford.

This article tells about a Canadian teacher and her second and third grade students making a classroom website. [13]

“The educational electronic book as a tool for supporting children’s emergent literacy in low versus middle SES groups:” This article researches the effects of electronic storybooks on emergent literacy skills. Two different groups of kindergarteners were looked at, those of a low socioeconomic status and those of a middle socioeconomic status. Students in the experimental group worked with electronic storybooks while students in the control group received regular classroom instruction. Word meaning, word recognition, and phonological awareness were part of the literacy skills measured before and after intervention. Word meaning improved for students using the electronic books of both low and middle SES. Children using the electronic books of low SES showed greater improvement of emergent literacy skills. [14]

Integrating Computer Technology into a Balanced Literacy Approach: Beyond Interactive Books and Word Processors.This is a great article that explains how to incorporate technology into your literacy program. It talks about changing the use of technology from a glorified worksheet...into a way to improve your literacy program. Also, the article talks about some of the reasons that teachers have a difficult time incoporating technology into their classrooms and ways to overcome them. [15]

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Middle

Quality and Efficiency in a Complementary Middle School Program: The "Educatodos" Experience in Honduras [16]

This article outlines a project in which three teachers collaborated with a teacher in another state (NC and IL) and used videoconferencing and email to encourage students' cultural awareness: [17]

This article discusses the benefits of digital storytelling to reading and writing skills, and it details how to plan for and implement storyboarding in the classroom: [18]

This article examines a pilot program that uses video games in the classroom in an attempt to improve student engagement and effective learning: [19]

This article discusses ways to improve students' use of computers in middle schools: [20]

This article reports on research that shows how middle school students are increasing their use of technology. Additionally, this article provides an overview of research being conducted at NC State University on game-based learning environments and the educational potential of game-play. [21]

High

Individual Characteristics and Computer Self-Efficacy in Secondary Education Teachers to Integrate Technology In Educational Practice [22]

Technology in Schools: Suggestions, Tools and Guidelines for Assessing Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education [23] An extensive article addressing the assessment/evaluation process for technology integration.

"Computer-Based Instruction's (CBI) Rediscovered Role in K-12: An Evaluation Case Study of One High School's Use of CBI to Improve Pass Rates on High-Stakes Tests" One High school used Computer-based instruction to remediate 10th graders. They found that their scores improved greatly compared to their 8th grade scores and in every subject of mastery on the CBI significant growth was shown:[24]

This article tells about a Canadian teacher and her second and third grade students making a classroom website. [25]

This site follows an online high school newspaper in NY and shows you how to do it. More practical than research-based, but interesting. [26]

The link of this site takes you to a research study titled, "Writing, Technology, and Teens." The study covers a wide array of information and may be helpful in many areas. [27]

Subject Areas/Disciplines

The Arts

Here's an article about programs that use comic books to teach fine arts, writing skills, and computer technology: [28]

This article describes how a third-grade program and a middle school program integrated technology into art courses: [29]

English/Language Arts/Literacy (Reading and Writing

This article, entitled "Writing in a Computer-Saturated Classroom," studies student achievement in writing. http://www.eric.ed.gov.www.lib.ncsu.edu:2048/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/22/c9/6c.pdf

This article shows a fun way to use technology to assess understanding by creating comics. [30]

This aritcle explains how you can use electronic books to aid in reading instruction for students with disabilities: [31]

Here is an article about a study comparing the effectivness of regular storybooks vs CD-ROM storybooks on reading comprehension in a second grade class: [32]

This article is about a teacher's experience in implementing a SmartBoard, laptops and blogs in her teaching: [33]

Article on the use of podcasts, blogs, and wikis and their potential in the classroom: [34]

Here is an article I found about the results of having students blog versus write hard copies: [35]

This is an article presents Microsoft PowerPoint as a means for storyboarding:[36]

This article encourages teachers to use captioning software and digital video with writing assignments as a way to motivate students: [37]

Here is an article about the future of teaching English in our rapidly changing global economy: [38]

This is article addresses the need for teachers to keep up with the age of teenagers and technology. This article is helpful to English, but addresses some other subjects. [39]

This is an article about the use of technology in teaching English. The article is long but the case examples at the end are very interesting: [40]

How one school implemented Tablet PCs to aid the writing curriculum: [41]

On making classroom materials more eye-catching to engage students in reading: [42]

This article is a one-year study of incorporating technology into the teaching of writing.

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Here is an article that focuses on using technolgy to help struggling adolescent readers without singling them out. [44]

This article focuses on using technology to teach diverse student populations. The article also focuses on how technology can be incorporated for cross-cultural education through e-mail, instant messaging and other modern methods of communication. [45]

Foreign Language/Second Language Acquisition

Using IPODs with ELLs: [46]

This article talks about a virtual study abroad in Sergovia: [47]

This article gives some great ideas for encorporating technology in the FL classroom: [48]

This article explains some useful technologies for working with ELLs [49]

This article talks about the use of email in foreign language: [50]

This website, "Voices from the Latino Community in NC," has interviews with latinos living now in NC from around the world. It can be used to look at cultural awareness, stereotypes, accent and speech caracteristics from different areas, or to gain first-hand perspectives on the issue of immigration. [51]

This is the website for Univision, a television channel complete with soap operas, news shows, etc. for the Latino Community. This website could be used for a "webquest" type activity, or the numerous video clips could be used for listening comprehension activities. [52]

This article discusses online programs for ESL teachers and ELLs [53]

Math

Tuttle, H.G. (2008). Technology = Math success. Technology and Learning, 28(7), 30-32. You will have to request this article through TripSaver. However, it looks like it has technology integration ideas for math at all levels: [54]

Troutner, J. (2007). Web sites to share with your math educator. Teacher Librarian, 35(2), 42-43. This article provides websites for math educators at all levels with a description of each: [55]

Using Blogging in the Science and Math Classroom [56]

Science

Social Studies Here is an article about Inspiration software in a World History inclusion class: [57]

Here is an article about teaching social studies teachers to use technology in the classroom:[58]

This article focuses on high school social studies content with the goal of supporting the students’ learning through application of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. UDL takes advantage of innovative technologies to address the diverse learning needs of students: [59]

This document contains several papers about social studies and technology that were presented at the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) cenference in 2002: [60]

This article provides a clear rationale for integrating technology with social studies education. [61]

This article discusses the benefit of using the internet in world history classes and how it enables students to acquire skills for social studies. [62]

This article focuses on using interactive video in a history class. [63]

This article focuses on the integration of laptops in the school curriculum [64]

Special Education

I found this article about dyslexia: [65]

This article describes how educators can use digital technology to increase the efficacy of social stories for students with developmental disabilities: [66]

This article describes how educators can adapt WebQuests for students with learning disabilities: [67]

Here is an article describing how to use video to enhance social skills training for adolescents with autism [68]

This article examines the efficacy of a computer program designed to help students with disabilities determine job preferences [69]

This article describes a web-based program for behavioral-progress monitoring: [70]

Other

This article dicusses Web-Based Inquiry Learning: Facilitating Thoughtful Literacy with Webquests: [71]

Informative article for those interested in integrating Podcasting in their classroom: [72]

This article describes how educators are using virtual field trips due to increasing gas prices: [73]

This articles tells about having students generate their own webquest. The article is focused on middle school students. [74]

This article looks at teacher's beliefs about the role of technology in the elementary classroom. Most teachers believe technology should be in the classroom, but many do not know how to integrate technology into the classroom. [75]

This article compares the differences in student achievement through interactive television learning, both with instructors present, not present, and in traditional classroom settings. Posted by Somer Alford. [76]

Looks at the use of technology in the classroom and social interaction between students with social networking sites. [77]