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Description
This camp is designed to improve educator proficiency and confidence in implementing technology tools in the classroom. Toward this goal, participants will experience firsthand the process of planning, working in a collaborative group with peers, and learning in a project-based setting. Participants will also present the project to the class. 

During the project-building process, participants learn basic technology proficiencies, group-process, and curriculum integration.  Technology skills are learned just-in-time to give them context and meaning.  Participants explore strategies for introducing projects, brainstorming topics with students, and completing a technology project using the expertise within their peer group.

In a project-based environment technology supports project content. Rather than manipulating curriculum to make technology a focus, participants gain experience using technology to support a curriculum project goal, learning how technology can help the user communicate ideas and improve understanding.  This model process can be replicated in the classroom and is applicable to project work in all subject areas and for all ages. 

Throughout this process, participants will reflect on how they, as mentor teachers and teachers at professional development schools, can use what they learn to support technology integration into teacher education students’ field experiences and internships.  This includes modeling appropriate technology use, creating an environment in which student interns can practice using technology with K-12 students and determining methods of evaluating a student intern’s use of instructional technology.  

Participants
Both higher education and P-12 faculty participate in Summer Technology Camp.  P-12 faculty teach in the Professional Development Schools, are members of the Corps of Mentor Teachers or are enrolled in the M.Ed in Middle Level Education program.  P-12 teachers can elect to receive recertification credit for participation.

Goals
The participant will:

1. Work in collaborative groups to create a technology product related to the theme of the course “Partnerships.”

2. Make a final presentation that includes: demonstrating the technology product and reflecting on the development process.

3. Use the Internet, Inspiration, digital cameras, scanners and other appropriate tools to plan and create the final product.

4. Create a rubric to assess the final technology product.

5. Articulate how the project-based learning, collaborative group model can be used in their own classroom.

6. Develop a plan for how they can assist in the integration of technology into teacher education students’ field experiences and internships during the next school year.

7. Become familiar with technology standards relevant to curriculum taught.

8. Become familiar with technology standards relevant to teacher education.