Technology enhanced learning environment
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A technology-enhanced learning environment enables students to not only use educational material available but to optimize and enhance their learning in all aspects of education.
TELE challenges students through interaction, which in turn helps them learn at their own pace/abilities. It allows for an interactive environment, and facilitates higher learning and critical thinking.
TELE can refer to any setting where technology is used to enhance the learning of a user or observer.
Technology helps to maximize learning by challenging students to be creative with the learning process and also produces a thought-provoking environment.
It's important to acquire proficiency skills on the computer, but more important to realize its significance for the future.
A level, degree, means, or environment of learning, one typically more accelerated than the classroom without the integration of technologies, that may only be reached with the implementation of technology.
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[edit] In a TELE classroom
Both teachers and students are seen using technology
- Teachers should use the computer for critical content in lesson planning and lessons
- Therefore, lessons are more than just fun. They use problem solving skills and critical thinking skills with technology
- Students can take an active role in learningn with tech and build upon what they have learned
[edit] What is required in a TELE?
- requires a group of learners
- requires an environment equipped with technology - computers, projectors, digital media equipment, etc.
- requires adequate technology instruction
- learners must interact with technology - hands-on interaction
- provides more customization of lesson plans and activities
- students have more options for resources, methods, and approaches for projects
- provides an almost limitless amount of information and resources
- Doing new things in new ways.
[edit] Examples of Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments
[edit] Ashley Holmes
The Montana Heritage Project (found at Edutopia.org): [1]
This article is a perfect example of how technology-enhanced learning environments are teaching students multitudes of information simply through their own interests. Students in the town of Libby, Montana researched the logging business that had become an intricate part of their town’s history over the past century and the effect its disappearance had. Through Internet research and hands-on experience, students were able to compile information and create PowerPoint Presentations, brochures, and even a website devoted to the past and future of Libby, Montana. Students were able to take an authentic problem and create a stronger sense of community for those they shared their information with through the application of technology.
Union City Public Schools Reform (found at Edutopia.org): [2]
In the article, “A Remarkable Transformation,” school officials in Union City, New Jersey explain how they managed to save 11 schools from state-run control and with the help of a strong administration and technology, test scores, passing rates and college-bound percentages have skyrocketed. By introducing new ways to find information (like through internet access) and new ways to express information (such as computer programs) students have discovered new ways to express their interests in certain subjects and how they can present information to their peers. Because of this nontraditional format, Union City Schools are prime examples of how technology-enhanced learning environments can better any community.
Taking It To The Street (found at the Apple Learning Interchange): [3]
This article delves into how one school took a local authentic problem into their own hands and attempted to solve the issue at hand through the use of technology as an aide, guide and research device. In order to investigate the speed of passing cars outside of their school, students used their own knowledge of physics and safety to develop graphs, rules and plans of action to the their problem. They were able to research similar problems in other areas through the Internet and create professional-looking presentations to display their results. Working with technology (and not just watching it work for them) students were able to solve a significant problem by building a technology-enhanced learning environment.
[edit] Anna Jane Andrews
Learning By Doing http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000518/
This exercise introduces digital photo as well as Apple Works to students. Students write a speech and then type it in a word document before presenting it to the class. Digital Photos are taken during the speech and then the student uses iPhoto to put them in the correct order. This TELE exercise integrates speech communication and memory with technology.
We Can Dance http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000575/
This exercise introduces students to iMovie. Students are creating movies with their peers and then must watch the movies created by the class to learn dance terminology and movements. This TELE project has students go beyond just learning directly from a teacher; it allows the student to learn from themselves as well as their peers.
Nature Poems http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000904/
This exercise introduces students to digital photos as well as search engines on the internet. Students have to be creative in writing nature poems from facts found on the internet, and then they must use digital photo to publish their artwork. This TELE exercise takes the students’ mind away from just a pencil and paper to a beautiful photo book that he or she published.
[edit] Kristen King
A Living Alphabet http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000517/
This lesson plan turns children into letters. The teacher takes pictures of the students in the shapes of the letters. Those pictures are then put into iPhoto and an ABC book is created. In this TELE lesson the students learn by doing and interacting with technology. They are encouaged to be creative.
Our Math Trail http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000878/
This lesson encourages students to look for math in their daily lives. Students go around the school and find things that can be used in a math problem. They write out the problem and answer. They combine the picture and text into an iPhoto book. The students also write out directions their math problem (creating the “trail”). In this TELE lesson, each group of students has something to teach the class. They are able interact with their environment and must become critical thinkers.
If I were President Book http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000523/
This lesson encourages students to think about what they would do if they were the President. The students will learn about previous Presidents and their accomplishments. The task is to create a class book using iPhoto. Once the students have learned about a few Presidents, they will be asked to write what they would do if they were President. They will incorporate technology with the use of a digital camera, a web browser, and iPhoto. This TELE lesson encourages the students to expand on what they have learned; they will also be challenged to think of ways to help improve our country.
[edit] Amanda Wright
Poetry Pals http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/lessonideas/poetrypals.html
Students will be using poetry, music, and illustrations to create a slideshow of poems and artwork. Students will be creating a 4-beat melody that will accompany the slideshow using GarageBand. After learning how to use Garageband, students will be able to export a musical composition that they recorded and mixed to iTunes. This lesson encourages students to become familiar with new types of technology involving music, which is very popular with students.
African Folktales http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000505/
In this lesson students will be creating their own folktale by writing and later performing. The first type of technology that students will be using is iPhoto to create still images of their activity that will be imported on the school’s website. Secondly, they will be using a digital video to film the movie and iMovie to edit it. This lesson lets students get involved in their own writing as well as controlling what others will view with the use of technology.
Literature Through Silent Movies http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001136/
This lesson has students creating a silent movie using an Edgar Allen Poe story. By using technology students are able to express a use of mood and tone. Students will be using a digital video to film the movie and then iMovie for editing, music, and special effects. All of these will help with students understanding of Edgar Allen Poe’s writing techniques. This TELE lesson helps students become more involved in what they are reading.
[edit] Dale Dixson
Meet the Artist http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000569/
In this project, each student produces a video essay in iMovie about an artist told from the artist's point of view. They also create original works of art in the style of the artist for an iPhoto slide show. After completing this project, students will be able to See the relationship of art in history and present factual information about an artist.
My Parent in the Ninth Grade http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000908/
This lesson is a perfect example of how technology-enhanced learning can help in the class as well as outside the class. Stdents create an iMovie project about what life was like for one of their parents as a ninth grader. Students learn how to use tools in the iLife applications, conduct an interview, organize their thoughts, and create a presentation. This lesson allows students to use many technology skills such as imovie, iphoto, apple works, etc...
War Story Documentary http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001144/
Students research an aspect of a war experience and bring history to life through iMovie. Students are able to demonstrate historical facts and perspectives and further reinforce their knowledge of the topic. After completing this project, students will be able to use critical thinking and reading skills to analyze and interpret information. Also they will have a better understanding of war and be able to express this new knowledge in there own words.
[edit] Caitlyn Hersh
Learning by Doing http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000518/
“In this project, students practice their public speaking skills by making a short speech demonstrating how to do something.” While completing this lesson students write a “how to” story and present it to a small group and later their entire class. This encourages interaction as well helps to build confidence in the student.
Idioms in Everyday Language http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000530/
This lesson allows students to further understand why idioms are used in the English language and also grasp their meaning. Students are encouraged to work in a group to create a book using iPhoto that explains and illustrates different idioms describing their feelings about different situations.
Historical Interview Project http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001134/
To complete this project students are asked to work in pairs or small groups. Students interview a friend or family member over the age of 50 about a significant moment in history that stands out to them. While interviewing them digital pictures or a camcorder is used to record the conversation. Later an iMovie is put together to explain what they have learned.
[edit] Leigh Haddon
Example 1: A Day with Fractions http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000972/
This lesson is for elementary kids using math in their everyday lives and using technology to present it to others. The students use digital cameras to take pictures and record students throughout the day where they witness fractions being used, whether it’s objects in the lunch room or how many students have on a colored shirt. Time and fractions are being taught by students to their peers, with a small amount of help from the teacher to create the iMovie.
Example 2: Mythical Monsters http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000928/
This lesson is more than just a fun way to present a book and then having the students draw a picture about the story. It can be used with any book for language arts, with the students recording their voices reading and using digital cameras to show off their artwork. Teachers also have a fairly passive role in leading the students who have to create their presentations and then figure out how exactly it is going to be presented.
Example 3: Movie Books- Children’s Stories http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000937/
This lesson is similar to the aforementioned lesson, but the iMovie created is an actual book, or what should be called an “iBook”. The students create and write their own story with illustrations, and with a slideshow the students record the story and time the pictures so that it is a book on video. This TELE challenges students to not only just write their own story and make illustrations, but to also create their own way to have it be presented visually instead of in a hard copy.
[edit] Tori Thompson
Example 1: Symmetry in Motion http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000886/The_Lesson.html
In this lesson the students are required to look around the classroom for different types of symmetry. The students then use inspiration to write out the definitions of symmetry and then create a short movie using imovie software. After completing this TELE the students will have a better understanding of how to gather and compile information using different technology skills.
Example 2: Feelings from A to Z http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000906/
This lesson allows students to use technology to act out different feelings that they may have. The students think of feelings that they have starting with different letters from the alphabet. They then work along with the teacher to take digital pictures of them acting out then feeling; editing them with iphoto. Using appleworks, students were able to write a short story about the picture leaving out the name of the feeling allowing others to guess what it is.
Example 3: Fabulous Fairytales http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001363/The_Lesson.html
In this lesson students act out one of their favorite fairytales while another student takes digital pictures. The students edit their pictures and can create a book using iphoto. This TELE allows students to express their creativity in class while incorporating technology at the same time.
[edit] Amanda Milam
Example 1: The Canterbury digiTales Project http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000880/
This lessons is directed towards Highschool Students and takes a well known text as the base for an authenitic learning project. After reading the Canterbury Tales students will be required to create their own pilgrim with a personality different from those in the story. Students will then take pictures, film scenes, add music and other elements to create their own tale for the character they created.
Example 2: All About Me http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000905/
This lesson encourages students to learn a foreign language they are learning outside of the classroom. Student will use photo editing software to create a book of pictures or artwork that describes them and include text about the page in the foregin language they are learning.
Example 3: Elements Commercials http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000576/
In this lesson students will form groups and create a commercial on an element. They will use their textbook and the internet to research their element and provide things like its atomic mass, atomic number, hardness and luster.
[edit] Alisan Atvur
The following three examples are provided by Alisan Atvur
The Sandra Skea Kite Project http://www.edutopia.org/php/interview.php?id=Art_898 (from edutopia.org)
For this project, Skea presented pieces of music and poetry on kites to her 5th grade students. As this was an interdisciplinary project, it allowed students to engineer kite plans and create reflective websites with the use of laptops. Without these laptops, the plans would lack precision and authenticity, elements necessary to provide a sense of ownership and pride to the students.
Eager to Learn: Student Films at Moanalua High School http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1047 (from edutopia.org)
In an effort to learn more about child labor laws, Moanalua High School relied on two fields of academics: social sciences and media communications. Students wrote, designed, shot, and edited films on the subject of child labor. In a 2003 Student Film Festival, the class was awarded first place for its film. These zealous students would not have been able to create these films without the use of media technologies such as digital cameras and editing platforms.
The More Unconventional of Technologies: Geo-Literacy http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1042 (from edutopia.org)
The technologies of the classroom are not always digital or novel: sometimes, teachers will integrate commonly ignored technologies into their lessons. For Eva La Mar’s classroom, “geo-literacy” is obtained through exposure to technologies involving blacksmithing, marsh preservation and ranching. Participating in the process of blacksmithing provides the student with an understanding of the blacksmith that only hands-on exposure can provide.
[edit] Kristin Beall’s examples
Higher Education Index http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000328/
This first project is a collection of teaching methods that is modeled several times in each separate lesson. I believe this is very beneficial for future teachers to see because not only is the teaching model described but it is also demonstrated in example videos as well. They also have sources for the reader to go to for more information. I really like when web sites put that useful information in an easy to find place on their web- pages.
The Canterbury digiTales Project http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000880/
This project is a great way of making storytelling even more fun. I remember doing a lesson like this in school where we had to write our own Canterbury tale and read it to the class. I think I would have enjoyed the assignment more to be able to put my story in a film format as these students did. I believe it would be a great way to keep, especially in the class I was in, student’s attention and could easily tie in with a film unit as well, which is what followed after I had done that lesson.
Stories of the American Experience http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000875/
How awesome! These teachers took and old project and took it to the next level. I believe that archiving our past is the best way to preserve out history. These students interviewed older members of society about past historically significant events that took place during their lifetime and filmed the interview. I like this lesson, particularly because, again I had to do this same type of interview as an assignment in my high school days but I just had to write down the Q&A here you have a face to a name and can see the actual interview, which in turn can be saved for future generations.
[edit] Jennifer Gunn
The following examples are provided by Jennifer Gunn
Music Around the World http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/lessonideas/musicaroundtheworld.html
This lesson idea ties music into the regular classroom. I feel this is very important because often our fine arts budgets do not allow the students to be exposed to the full impact the arts can have on a child. In this project, students are required to use the internet to research music in different cultures. After collecting enough data, students then use GarageBand to both explore music clips already there as well as create their own. This is a great way to combine social studies with music – while still allowing the students to become more familiar with technology.
Our Pattern Book http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000563/
This lesson idea uses photography to help the students master patterns and sequences. The students are given various materials to make patterns out of. After each of their patterns are complete, a digital photo is taken of the child with their pattern. A book is then compiled and each student is required to describe his/her pattern. This is a great way to get children to experiment using their own creative skills – while using technology to make the lesson a permanent fixture the students can study in the future.
Kindergarten Takes a Trip to the Zoo http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000872/
This is a great lesson idea for making a field trip more meaningful. This lesson provides activities for the students to do before going to the zoo, at the zoo, and back in the classroom. Before going, students research animals they expect to see at the zoo. While at the zoo, movie clips and photos are taken of various animals. Back in the classroom, the students are required to write about a favorite animal while creating a photo album and iMovie project documenting the trip. Using this lesson would make a field trip more productive and unforgettable.
[edit] Carolyn Welsh's Examples
The Wired Classroom http://www.fno.org/mar98/flotilla.html
This site gives a great explanationg of what a Technology Enhanced Classroom would look like. It also tells the positives improvements that teachers will find when using them. It also shows you how to use technology effectively rather than wastefully. I think it's one of the best sites I found.
From Hula to High Tech http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1126&key=137
This classroom has done an excellent job of filling the TELE requirements in all subjects. Now technology isn't limited to just making some classes fun, it enriches the curriculum and is a necessary part of the lesson plan. From outside science exploration to pictures used to help remember vocabulary.
Laptops Change Curriculum -- and Students http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr178.shtml
"At one Bloomfield, Connecticut, middle school, all the students have laptops, and life is going smoothly, thanks in part due to a large dose of teacher preparation. Besides requiring special training, life with laptops also comes with special problems."
