Teaching with Technology

Learn how to use technology to enhance course design, lesson planning, presentations, in-class activities, assessments, and student achievement and engagement.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course

1. Getting Ready to Teach with Technology

• Putting the "tech" into "teach"
• Rewriting your learning outcomes to include technology
• Aligning resources, activities, and assessments with outcomes

2. Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Principles with Technology

• About applying UDL principles
• Applying UDL principles: Sharing content in multiple formats
• Applying UDL principles: Motivating and engaging learners in multiple ways
• Applying UDL principles: Allowing learners to show what they know in multiple ways

3. Using Technology to Prepare Content

• Why use technology to share content?
• Choosing appropriate technologies to share content
• Finding content for your class: Teachers as collage artists
• Recording lectures and presentations
• Creating your own instructional materials

4. Using Technology to Share Content

• Enhancing lectures or presentations
• Sharing content with your students
• Asking students to create digital content
• Getting students to do the reading
• Using collaborative tools for content review

5. Using Technology to Facilitate In-Class Activities

• Why use technology to facilitate interactivity?
• Choosing appropriate technologies to facilitate interactivity
• Engaging students in the classroom
• Facilitating active learning in the classroom
• Facilitating small-group work in the classroom

6. Using Technology to Facilitate Virtual Activities

• Facilitating discussion
• Enabling study groups
• Facilitating team projects
• Facilitating virtual fieldwork

7. Using Technology to Assess Learning

• Why use technology to assess learning?
• Choosing appropriate technologies to assess learning
• Using clickers to assess learning in the classroom
• Assessing lab work

8. Assessing Learning and Teaching Effectively in Online Environments

• Administering digital quizzes, tests, and exams
• Assessing written work
• Assessing team projects
• Assessing student presentations
• Facilitating student self-assessments
• Facilitating peer-review activities
• Using eportfolios for authentic assessment and measuring growth
• Assessing teaching effectiveness

Conclusion

• Key take-aways
• Next steps