Metaphor+Practice

Technology Integration List Characteristics or attributes of technology integration
 * Hard
 * Complicated
 * Fun
 * 21st Century
 * Appealing to kids
 * Engaging
 * Time Consuming

Skiing Image of skiing

Attributes of skiing
 * Fun
 * Cold
 * Hard
 * Learning Curve
 * Technological Advances
 * Location specific
 * Literal Technology || Matching Literal Characteristics || Literal Skiing ||
 * * Hard
 * Complicated
 * Fun
 * 21st Century
 * Appealing to kids
 * Engaging
 * Time Consuming || * Hard
 * Complicated
 * Progressive
 * || * Fun
 * Cold
 * Hard
 * Learning Curve
 * Technological Advances
 * Location specific ||
 * || Figurative characteristics
 * Process oriented
 * Effort
 * Focus

Technology integration is like skiing

Find 3 images - technology - skiing - figurative or literal representation of the blend

Model this process

They do the process with our topic using Pictures resources we have already collected for them to save time

Then discuss application to their content areas, grade levels, etc.

Close by developing rubrics in rubistar for assessing metaphors.

Other technologies to pull into this: digital cameras, google docs, inspiration/kidspiration/gliffey,

Have signs around the room for different content and grade levels to gather at the beginning then they don't have to have their own pages, they can work collaboratively.

Restaurant supply stands for the signs.

Marzana references of book and online

Different image resources for different age groups: elementary pics4learning, high school creative commons,

wiki pages that describe apploication of multiple intelligences and higher order thinking skills