Week 3 Assignment 2

• Which ideas from the PPT reflect what the ELA teachers you interviewed are currently doing to integrate technology with their literacy instruction?
• "The ability to use digital technologies to identify questions, locate information evaluate the information, synthesize information to answer questions and communicate the answers back to others" - Using the new literacys and the internet to do research and gain insight!
• How can you help change their instructional practices to include the use of technology and the Internet in their literacy and content-area curriculum?
• I would push for more widespread use. I would encourage adopting collaborative and interactive tools such as SMILE. To use the technology and new literacys to help close the gaps of communication.
• What professional development and/or resources will they need in order to make these changes?
• It will be challenging with the administration. All change is challenging, but teachers want to do what is best for students!
• What ideas do you have for grouping students so they will have equal access to technology in the classroom?
• You want to pair students so that they will collaborate nicely together, they should mesh inter personally and also help each other out.