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Collaborative Facilitation
When students have access to the Internet in classrooms and a computer laboratory, projects provide excellent opportunities for teachers to collaborate to develop students’ technology literacy and subject area knowledge. Imagine a school where:
- All students know how to use a variety of technology tools efficiently and effectively regardless of whether they have computers or Internet access at home.
- Students learn new technology concepts and skills in the computer laboratory and immediately apply them to subject area learning in their classrooms.
- Students spontaneously access a variety of online sources and databases to supplement textbooks and research complex topics.
- Students confidently write, revise, and edit in a variety of styles for a variety of audiences.
- Students quickly collect and analyze data in a variety of subject areas and create charts, graphs, and other visual representations of relationships among data.
- Students routinely demonstrate their understanding of big ideas by producing authentic artifacts such as, publications, presentations, and Web sites.
Strategies for Colloborative Facilitation >
When students regularly use technology in both the classroom and a computer laboratory or library, classroom teachers and technology and library specialists can collaboratively coordinate instructional strategies. Classroom teachers and technology and library specialists should have co-planning time to ensure that students use technology resources productively in both the computer laboratory and classrooms.
Techniques for Collaborative Facilitation >
When students regularly use technology in both the classroom and a computer laboratory or library, classroom teachers and technology and library specialists can collaboratively establish rules and procedures. Ideally, classroom teachers should accompany students to the computer laboratory or library and team-teach with the computer teacher or librarian.
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