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Assignment: You are a classroom teacher who is dedicated to and experienced with integrating various technology resources into your instructional practices. You have found that technology motivates your students and improves their achievement outcomes. Your colleagues are inexperienced with using technology resources as instructional tools and are not sure how to effectively integrate technology into their instructional practices. You have been asked to develop a website that will provide information and ideas about the effective integration of technology into instructional practice. Your audience is composed of teachers and administrators.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be considered by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc. unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
Note: You will be creating one website with multiple web pages. You will need to submit an accessible URL of your website (anyone at WGU can view it) to allow for evaluation of this task. If you do not have access to a web server for the publishing of website files, please choose a website development tool that will both create and host your website.
A. Create an original website that demonstrates the importance of educational technology for teaching and student learning, using a website authoring tool. Submit an accessible URL of the website. Adhere to the following requirements for the pages within your website:
1. Create a web page describing the purpose of the website and your personal philosophy for using educational technology to facilitate student learning. Address each of the following:
• equitable use
• ethical use
• social responsibility
2. Create a web page about choosing educational technology that facilitates student learning by doing the following:
a. Describe three different resources and how they are used to research educational technology to facilitate student learning.
b. Describe two methods or strategies for integrating educational technology to facilitate student learning.
3. Create a web page with a sample learning activity demonstrating the integration of a technology resource or resources, including an explanation of how technology can be integrated into each of the following:
• curricular resources that guide instructional design (e.g., standards)
• formative assessment strategy
• summative assessment strategy
• how student data would be used through technology for student learning outcomes
4. Create a web page that describes how educational and assistive technology fosters self-directedness and independent learning by doing the following:
a. Create a section within your page that provides two examples of educational technology tools an educator can use to foster or support goals of self-directedness and independent student learning. Explain how each of these tools supports these goals.
b. Create a section within your page that provides two examples of assistive technology, different than those used in part A4a. Describe how the technology meets individual student needs and learning in an educational setting.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.