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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:50:03 EDT
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- From: CITEC@Jetson.UH.EDU
- Subject: Re: Technology and curriculum reform
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- Many teachers would be willing to use technology in their classrooms
- if they knew what to do with it. They must be given practical, workable
- lessons to get started. Once they see what is possible, their own ideas
- and adaptations will more easily surface. The students also will come up with id
- eas on how to use the technology.
-
- This past year was involved with a grant that set up our TEC-Lab
- with a wide variety of hardware - computers, laser printers, CD-Rom, video
- and editing equipment, a still camera, scanners, Computer Eyes, a FAX
- machine and a modem. Our primary software was Word for Windows, Pagemaker,
- Persuasion and Excel. This project involved five teachers - one each from
- math, physical science, social studies, communications and language arts.
- We each had one class daily in the Lab and taught our other classes in a
- traditional classroom.
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- My Language Arts class concentrated on American Literature (11th
- grade). Since I did not want this to be a word processing class, I had
- to develop a number of lessons that used the technology in a different way.
- Many of the lessons were similar to activities in the traditional class
- but the technology added an extra dimension and the students became
- extremely motivated. Many of them spent numerous hours outside of class and
- we almost always had a full house the two evenings a week we kept the Lab
- open at night. They also began using the Lab for assignments in other
- classes once they discovered the possibilities open to them.
-
- This year the grant has the five teachers allocated one day a week so al
- l of our classes will be involved, but on a weekly rather than daily basis.
- This necessitates massive adaptation of the lessons we developed for this year.
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- The math, the science teacher and I are also trying to develop a
- school-wide project with an environmental spin using the resources of the
- TEC-Lab and Thoreau as our touchstone.
-
- If anyone would like to discuss any or all of this with me and maybe
- exchange some ideas, I would love to hear from you.
- Janice Kelso CITEC@jetson.uh.edu
- Jkelso@tenet.edu
- FAX (713)292-0134
- Voice Phone (713)367-1025 ext.242
-