Professional Development

April 2015 ~ Technology Use in the EC Classroom: Learning and Reflecting Agenda 1. Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom: Teacher Share Out Lindsey Keller’s teacher website: http://wp.lps.org/lkeller2/ Haze Holtorf’s teacher website: http://wp.lps.org/hholtorf/ Stacey Zimmerle class iMovie projects Jordan Redden’s teacher website: http://wp.lps.org/jredden/blog/author/jredden/ Mark Weddleton’s teacher website: http://wp.lps.org/mweddle/april-10/ark Weddleton’s teacher website: http://wp.lps.org/mweddle/april-10/ Script for Google translate: <meta name=”google-translate-customization” content=”32be4a2b7ed72127-04491bf599daa174-g080b9df58bc32cfe-12″></meta> <div id=”google_translate_element”></div><script type=”text/javascript”> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: ‘en’, layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.SIMPLE}, ‘google_translate_element’); } </script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit“></script> 2. iPads management updates: LPS Tag Management Currently: Allows for district – programs wide app purchases Starting in September 2015: Allows for teachers to request apps from the LPS-EC Approve App List using their enhancement funds. Devices are installed to appropriate LPS tag number. Getting your favorite EC apps on the approved list ONE STEP! Submit the app for review using the EC app review form. The LPS-EC Approve App List will be updated by the end of each quarter by the EC Apps Review Committee. EC Apps Review Committee: We would like to have 4 teachers who are active in integrating technology and researching apps to join this committee. The committee’s work will entail: Download, review and approve the apps suggested through the EC app review form. Meet once a quarter to update the LPS-EC Approve App List Why this process for getting apps to the EC Approved Apps List? 1. To save app review time when requesting apps beginning in September 2015. 2. To use our own expertise to best match quality apps to our program’s curriculum and outcomes. 3. To make a list of recommended quality educational apps for all teachers, families and the community -this list is accessible to teachers, principals, families and the community via the Early Childhood iPads Site. 3. App Smack-Down! 4. Assessing needs and planning for support – Collaborative Activity How would you like to be supported in the use of technology next year? What are your needs? What do parents need to know about technology to be safe and savvy in the 21st century – Do we need training for this? What would it look like? How can you use technology to best meet the needs of ALL students? What resources do you need to make this happen? Soap Box: Is there anything regarding technology in your classroom that concerns you? What are your favorite Apps – what skills / concepts does it address? Best tips and trick for efficiently using GOLD in your classroom BONUS! Early Learning and Technology Scholarly Articles (2012-2014 pdfs) Finding the education in educational technology with early learners – [PDF] from naeyc.org A framework for using iPads to build early literacy skills – [PDF] from vcsc.k12.in.us Teacher practices with mobile technology: integrating tablet computers into the early childhood classroom – [PDF] from northwestern.edu Living in the iWorld: Two Literacy Researchers Reflect on the Changing Texts and Literacy Practices of Childhood. – [PDF] from ed.gov Sharing personalised stories on iPads: a close look at one parent–child interaction – [PDF] from ncrm.ac.uk New directions for early literacy in a digital age: the iPad – [PDF] from ncrm.ac.uk
April 2013 ~ Developing the ExCITE Program’s Common Language for Early Childhood Learning and Technology
8:30- 9:00 Announcements, resources & agenda9:00 – 9:30 Media and Children – Developing the ExCITE Program’s Common Language for Early Childhood Learning and Technology “Media is very much a part of our lives. The real research agenda is to find out how to use it in healthy ways.” ~ Dr. Dimitri Christakis XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Video Source: http://bit.ly/xx1K07 9:30 – 10:00 Home Language Development Support
10:00-10:15 Break and Transition to Small Group Sessions
10:15 – 12:15 Small Group Sessions

Group 1 Adams Cavett Belmont Clinton Elliott Huntington McPhee Prescott 10:15 -10:45 – Media (Parish Hall) 10:50-11:20 – GOLD (Classroom 2) 11:25- 11:55 – E-Mail, QR Codes and Apps (Classroom 1 –next to the office. 11:55 – 12:15 – Professional Development Feedback Form	Group 2 Arnold Norwood Brownell Pershing Everett Hartley Kooser Roper Saratoga 10:15 -10:45 – GOLD (Classroom 2 10:50-11:20 – E-Mail, QR Codes and Apps (Classroom 1 –next to the office) 11:25- 11:55 – Media (Parish Hall) 11:55 – 12:15 – Professional Development Feedback Form	Group 3 Beattie Calvert Campbell West Lincoln Holmes Humann Maxey Morley Meadow Lane 10:15 -10:45 – E-Mail, QR Codes and Apps (Classroom 1 –next to the office) 10:50-11:20 – Media (Parish Hall) 11:25- 11:55 –GOLD (Classroom 2) 11:55 – 12:15 – Professional Development Feedback Form

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