School Technology Survey
Each student visits the school where they would like to work in the future and surveys and documents how technology is implemented for teaching and learning. Each student needs to create a video report to report the findings back to class.
Procedures
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Purposes of School Visit & Internview
① Investigate Technology Integration
Each student must observe the facilities and technology infrastructure school wide and in the classrooms. If possible, each student observes how technology is implemented in a classroom teaching.
② Find Answers to Your Questions
Prior to the school visit, each student must come up with five instructional technology questions that he/she wants to investigate at the selected school. Not only must he/she observe how things are, the student also must actively look for answers to his/her questions.
③ Identify Problem Areas
While the student observes the facilities and interviews the teacher, he/she must try to identify potential problems with the ways technology is integrated in school or used by the teacher. If no obvious problems are found, the student still must identify the areas that can be enhanced through different applications of instructional technology. This is a prerequisite for the proceeding Teaching Innovation project.
Virtual Field Trips
We watch all the students' video reports in class. As we watch them, each student is required to ask a question about the technology integration or provide a solution to the problem identified in the video report.
Students can either speak up or post to TodaysMeet.
These video reports are excellent sources of valuable information. Students can benefit tremendously from taking virtual tours to 30 different schools/facilities. When I was in Kearney NE, I used to take students to local schools three times per semester, but these virtual field trips seem to be more effective in two ways.
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Grading & Rubric
Each video report is graded on how well school technology integration is documented and on the quality of the multimodal presentation. Click the images of the rubric below for detail.