Tennessee Curriculum Frameworks
Content Standard:
The student will use, read, and view media/technology and analyze content and concepts accurately.Goal Statement (in part):
Students must learn how to communicate effectively using visual media for specific purposes and audiences. Educators must provide students with the necessary tools to function productively in tomorrow's world.Learning Expectations:
Use technological equipment safely, carefully, and appropriately in order to complete tasks.For complete frameworks listings, see http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cicurframwkmain.htm
Use media to view, to read, to write, and to create.
Develop awareness of the importance of media in daily life.
Use technological reference sources.
Use the computer as a communication tool.
CyberGuides
From the Language Arts SCORE (Schools of California Online Resources
for Educators Project), teacher developed CyberGuides are "supplementary
units of instruction based on core works of literature, designed for students
to use the World Wide Web."
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html
Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, objectives,
a task, a Web-infused process, and an evaluation rubric. Most guides have
students create a product after they have reviewed Web resources.
Little Explorers
Picture Dictionary with Links
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
1,831 illustrated dictionary entries! Each word is used in a meaningful
example sentence. Most entries have links to a related web site. Just click
on an underlined word (or its accompanying picture), and you'll link to
a great web site related to it.
Children of all ages will love it.
K-3 Themes at Enchanted Learning
Learning activity for students
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/
These themes have links to simple crafts, nursery rhymes, coloring
book printouts, information, and/or quizzes based on the topic.
For teachers:
Microsoft Lesson Connection Search
Search the Internet for ready-to-use lessons
http://k12.msn.com/LessonConnection/Teacher.asp?L1=Language+Arts&L1State=Educational+Technology&pagename=teacher&L2=&L3=
Teachers, search for lessons that match your school's learning objectives
using the Lesson Connection Search. Focus a lesson search on a specific
learning objective.
Holiday Cards
Language arts lesson plan for second grade on making holiday cards
http://fayar.net/curriculum/lp012.htm
Lesson Author: Jane Boyer, Holcomb Elementary School
Technology objectives: use of files; create and print simple documents;
produce a project incorporating graphics
Filamentality
Internet teaching tool
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides
you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet
sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. The Knowledge
Network Explorer is funded and managed by the Pacific Bell Education Market
Group reflecting the long standing commitment to education by Pacific Bell.
Language and Literature Center
Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the Internet
http://www.educationworld.com/lang_lit/
A search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators
could find information without searching the entire Internet. The founders
and executive management of Education World, each with a background in
education, designed the site to be a FREE resource for educators. In order
to keep the site free for all visitors, corporate sponsors and advertisers
fund Education World.
28 on 21
Online book containing information about using technology - 28 takes
on 21st century literacy instruction
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/2821/index.htm
Teachers, gain insights from a project by faculty and students of Harvard
Graduate School of Education. Many article links ranging from “Storytelling,
Media, and Culture: Weaving Technology into the Curriculum” to “A Content
Analysis of Four Reading Comprehension Software Programs” can be found.
The ideas presented in these pages will inspire you, stimulate your thinking,
and cause you to consider new strategies to add to your teaching repertoire.
For teachers and parents:
Kids First!
Search over 1700 reviews of CD-ROMS, Videos, DVD, and Audio Recordings!
http://www.cqcm.org/kidsfirst/start.html
The Coalition for Quality Children's Media is a national not-for-profit
organization that is a voluntary collaboration between the media industry,
educators and child advocacy organizations. CQCM’s aim is to enhance children's
viewing experiences by making quality children's media more visible and
more readily available.
Can Software Support Children's Vocabulary Development?
Article from Language Learning & Technology journal
http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num1/wood/default.html
Overall strengths and weaknesses of 16 products are examined. Can children
learn vocabulary best through computers? The article is useful for teachers
and interested parents. Language Learning & Technology is sponsored
and funded by the University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource
Center and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education
and Research.
Graphic courtesy of Cheryl's
Image Gallery.
This page created April 30, 2001, by Mark Raedisch, student of Carson
Newman College of Education.
Special thanks to Assistant Professor, Dr.
Karen Milligan and her helpful Educational
Technology course web site.
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