Learning & Leading with Technology

December/January 2000–2001

This month, read the final article in Lynn McNally & Cindy Etchison’s series about successful technology integration. ISTE members can read Judi Harris’s column describing how to design effective technology integration activities and articles about social problem solving and decision making, online classroom visits, teacher collaboration, and more.

Features

Network Tools: Strategies of Successful Technology Integrators, Part 3
   by Lynn McNally and Cindy Etchison
Networks, including school- and district-based networks and the Internet, allow powerful collaboration, scaffolding, and sharing.
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Now That You Know the Basics: Rubrics to Guide Professional Technology Development, Part 1
   by Doug Johnson
Rubrics help educators plan their professional development.
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For Tech Leaders

The Curriculum Authoring Tools: Technology Enabling School Reform
   by Alan Bain and Philip Huss
A school design and relational databases help teachers plan innovative yearly curriculum. The authors explain how they created their tools to help you create your own set.
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In the Curriculum

Health
Using Technology to Promote Healthy Decision Making
   by Victoria Poedubicky, Lois Brown, Heather Hoover, and Maurice J. Elias
A software program can reinforce the social problem-solving and decision-making skills taught in class when part of a larger social and emotional learning curriculum.
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Language Arts
Teaming Up to Integrate Technology into a Writing Lesson
   by Steve Gardiner
Find out how a language arts teacher learned to write in HTML and a technology teacher learned to discuss the finer points of sentence structure as they created an online tool correlated to their district’s language arts curriculum.
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Multidisciplinary
Virtual Classroom Visits
   by Amy Pearl
NETC’s classrooms@work Web site provides three technology-rich curriculum projects showing students and teachers at work in their classrooms. In conjunction with introductory videos, these multimedia tools allow teachers to see best practices in action.
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Starship Gaia
Make Your Own System: Measurement and Modeling on a Solar Scale
   by Bob Albrecht and Paul Davis
Bob and Paul continue their discussion of scale and models by moving out from Earth to the solar system.
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Multidisciplinary
Fundraising with Technology
   by Marcie A. Zisow
Students updated a yearly fundraising activity by integrating technology into the planning and evaluation.
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Telecommunications

Linking Technology, Learning, and School Change
   by Alan Feldman, Bob Coulter, and Cliff Konold
The authors culminate their four-article series by describing how teaching practices need to change to take advantage of rapidly emerging technologies. They specifically address two questions: (1) When a school integrates technology thoroughly into teaching and learning, what does a classroom look like and how is student learning extended and deepened? (2) How can a school or district support teachers in their integration of technology into teaching and learning practices?
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Mining the Internet
Structuring Internet-Enriched Learning Spaces for Understanding and Action
   by Judi Harris
In this month’s column, Judi describes how skillful, student-centered teachers create spaces for learning that accommodate multiple possibilities for student action. She closes by describing three projects that accomplish those goals.
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Software

Software Review
   edited by Judi Mathis Johnson
Read an in-depth review of Smart Start English^™, a program designed to teach three aspects of functional English: reading, aural comprehension, and speaking.
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Editorial

Roles of IT in Improving Our Educational System, Part 4:
Brain and Body Tools
   by Dave Moursund
In this month’s column, Dave examines IT-assisted brain tools and their effects on teaching and learning. He specifically addresses standards and the need for educators and students to develop a level of expertise with our current brain tools.
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Contributors

Find out about the authors and column editors in this issue.
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Math & Science Backpacks
Starship Gaia columnists Bob Albrecht and George Firedrake have created many math and science activities for teachers, and they will begin sharing them here. The first set of activities will be available in February and will include a guessing game, dice rolling activities using the Internet, and more.

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