West River Teacher Center

Professional Development Graduate Credit

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Integrating Technology in the Classroom Advanced

1 professional development graduate credit
15
Kevin Moberg, Chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Assistant
Professor of Education (701-483-2178 or kevin.moberg@dickinsonstate.edu)
Course Location: May Hall 301, Dickinson State University

Course Description:
This course offers instruction on, demonstration of, and practice with integrating technology with
classroom instruction. Educational technology is presented as tools used not only by the teacher for
delivering instruction and assessing learning but also by the student for learning, for creating, and for
demonstrating new knowledge and skills.
This advanced course presents participants with formal models for technology integration to challenge
them to use technology to help students do what would not otherwise be possible. The course also builds
on participants existing knowledge of current technology tools used for a variety of purposes to teach
students effectively across the disciplines. Co-instructors include staff members from DSUs Technology
Resource and Education Center (TREC): Anthony Willer, Krissy Kilwein, and Kathy Obritsch. Class sessions
are held in TRECs base camp and utilize TRECs collection of technology tools and resources.

Course Materials:
Materials will be provided by the instructors. Participants may wish to bring to class a lesson that they
plan to teach in the upcoming school yearone that might be improved by the integration of technology.
This course ends with a teaching demonstration for which such a lesson would be helpful to each course
participant.

Course Outcomes:
Explain educational technology standards for teachers and students and apply them to the design
of a technology-enhanced lesson
Explain and apply a formal technology integration model when planning for students learning
Demonstrate competency using a variety of technology tools (presented in this course) when
delivering a technology-enhanced lesson
Analyze the effectiveness of technology integration in lessons delivered in this course by others
and by oneself

Articulate how knowledge and skills learned in this course will be transferred to ones daily
teaching upon return to the classroom

Outcomes Assessment:
Complete matching diagnostic and summative assessments of ones basic technology knowledge
Engage in discussion of technology standards, technology integration models, and their role in
guiding the use of technology tools for teaching and learningboth in general and in ones own
classroom
Deliver a technology-enhanced lesson that demonstrates the effective use of technology tools
presented in this course to achieve technology standards for teachers and students alike and to
achieve advanced levels of learning along a technology integration continuum
Write an analysis of others technology lessonsand reflect on ones own technology lessonin
light of the courses main points about effective integration of technology in the classroom

Instructional Methods:
The team of instructors will model the use of a variety of technology tools categorized by purpose.
Demonstration of each set of tools will be followed by a block of time for individual exploration and
experimentation so that each participant can select a tool to learn in more depth with the instructors
present to serve as coaches.
The instructors will engage participants in the use of technology to articulate their learning goals for this
course, to diagnose their incoming level of technology competence, to reflect on their own learning
throughout the course, and to demonstrate their achievement of the outcomes for this course.
The instructors will have participants collaborate in discussion of technology standards and technology
integration approaches. They will work together, too, in planning and carrying out the teaching
demonstrations that end this course.

Course Schedule:
A detailed daily agenda will be provided at the start of the class. Class sessions start at 8:00 A.M. and end
at 4:30 P.M. (Mountain time) each day with breaks built into the daily schedule.
The content of the course will include these topics:
educational technology standards for teachers and students
formal models for technology integration
tools for creating and storing
tools for collecting and organizing
tools for presenting and collaborating
tools for exploring and playing
tools for sharing
effective integration of technology into the classroomdemonstrating it oneself and analyzing its
demonstration by others