Eureka! Summer 2002 Workshops

Teaching with Technology: Supplementing Classroom Content with the WWW

Leaders: Karen Gardiner and Kristi Byrd Kelly

Date: Friday, June 28, 2002

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Place: Director's Conference Room, Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Abstract
Today's students live in a fast-paced world that features flashy technology enhancements for everything from banking to after-school entertainment to watching the Olympics. Thus, the high school teacher is constantly challenged to make the classroom interesting, fast-paced, and compatible with the exciting world of technology. "Teaching with Technology: Supplementing Classroom Content with the WWW" will show Eureka! teachers how to supplement existing lesson plans and teaching materials with technology, specifically with the use of the World Wide Web. This workshop will address how to use the Web to enhance classroom teaching as well as how to incorporate the Web for student use. Lessons and activities will be demonstrated in a hands-on environment so that teachers will leave the workshop with materials and ideas they can begin to use immediately. The goal, here, is not to use technology just for the sake of using it, but to use it as a highly effective way to get students involved in learning. In addition, educational hot topics such as differentiation and learning styles may be easily incorporated into lessons by using the methods presented in this workshop. "Teaching with Technology" will enable Eureka! teachers to use the Internet to make British literature come to life for all of their students.


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