Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology Quotes

“Have students use Internet search tools to locate reputable online resources to back their claims. They catalog, comment on, and annotate sources of evidence using social bookmarking tools like Diigo or Delicious. Next, students share the sources with their classmates to determine the legitimacy of the evidence, the extent to which it is weakened by erroneous reasoning, or to provide ideas or additional resources for further consideration. Encourage students to add comments by annotating sources of information directly in the social bookmarking site.”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“If technology is truly to be beneficial to education, the power and potential of educational technology must be acknowledged to reside within educators and not within objects” (p. 52).”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“Sanchez and Wiley (2009) reported that text displayed in a scrolling format is not only harder to understand but also harder to remember than text displayed in a print format, especially for individuals with low working memory: “Nonscrolling interfaces produced significantly better comprehension overall than did scrolling interfaces. . . . Whereas scrolling did lead to worse performance overall, there was a more pronounced effect for those individuals who had lower WMC [working memory capacity]”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“predicted with improvements in teacher behavior” (p. 70), particularly with respect to chunking, scaffolding, pacing, progress monitoring, clarity of content depicted on the IWB, and student response rates. All six of these instructional variables were found to correlate with the size of the IWB effect. In summary, when teachers used these strategies more effectively, student achievement gains were greater.”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“found that web-based learning was most effective for declarative knowledge (understanding of facts, details, principles, and generalizations), as opposed to procedural knowledge (strategies and processes).”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“If improved standardized test scores is the primary justification for investments in one-to-one laptop programs, then results probably will be disappointing”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“Positive effects of technology . . . are mediated by the fidelity of implementation. Even if schools and teachers are provided with enough access to appropriate instructional technology, and teachers receive proper professional development in the use and integration of educational technology and technology is integrated in curricula, course objectives, and assessment, the outcomes are fundamentally grounded in self-reflective processes in human adaptation and change. (p.”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“In other words, computer-assisted instruction is likely to result in a 12 percentile point gain in achievement when it replaces the instruction of the teacher, but this gain is likely to rise to 17 percentile points when the technology is used as a supplement to the teacher’s instruction.”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“There is little incentive to teach the new literacies of online reading comprehension because they are not tested. Thus students in the poorest schools become doubly disadvantaged: They have less access to the Internet at home, and schools do not always prepare them for the new literacies of online reading comprehension at school.”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

“State reading standards and assessments in the United States—including the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)—do not include or test any standards that distinguish between online reading comprehension and print reading comprehension”
― Sonny Magana, Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology