Meet TRG, your Textbook Reading Guide!

Each week he will guide you to the most important parts of the chapter. These are the sections that we will focus on in depth in disucssions, activities and in the quizzes!.

So follow the running shoes and use them as a reading checklist as you go through the chapter.

Week 1 Textbook Reading Guide

for the 4rd Edition

 Why Use Technology?

figure 1.2 page 14

NETS for Students

There is summary on very first page in the book (before the title page). But click on the following link to see the technology standards for the school children of tomorrow. Oregon has adopted these for all students. You might want to see the standards for the particular grade level that you are working with under Profiles in the link below.

Profiles for Technology Literate Students

The Educational Technology "Tree of Knowledge"

Fig. 1.9 - p.18
Color in the parts you know + add your own leaves for things you would like to know more about. For example, DVDs are not listed.

Current Equipment

Fig. 1.10 - p.119-20
Where is your school on this graphic? You might want to add:

CDROM

CDROM burner

DVD player in computer

DVD player standalone with TV

DVD burner

Current Trends and Issues

pages 18 - 24
Which of these issues do you have experience with?

 

National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers

Here is the NETS for teachers list online.

http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html

This will be the basis for your portfolio. You can't work on all of them this term, but you can make a start. Select those that you would like to focus on and personalize these for you. For example, you may be working with 4th graders (or you may have children in 4th grade), so under the standard

I. Technology Operations and Concepts

the performance indicator wants you to demonstrate a knowledge of NETS for students. However, you might want to choose to focus on the NETS for 4th grade students. Even here you might want to narrow the focus instead of taking on all 6 standards for students, you might want to focus on just a just #1 Basic operations and concepts and #4 Technology communication tools.

Write these out very specifically. You CAN and probably will delete items that do not come up and add other items that you find. Remember you are building a portfolio and these are the guidelines or the signposts along the way.

 

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