Assignment:
Technology Integration Video Project
You will develop a video project in which you will demonstrate your integration of technology in instructing children and youth with disabilities in your classroom and reflect upon the importance of technology in instructing diverse learners, including students with special needs. This project is a semester long project. Need Assignment Help?
The specific components for this project are discussed below:
Technology Integration Video Project Proposal:
You will write and submit a proposal for your project. The proposal should include:
An identification of the technology standards and content areas standards that your project will address (the ISTE standards for teachers, the ISTE standards for students, and the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) or the Common Core State Standards in regard to technology for content areas). You should plan for at least 3 different technology standards across 3 different content areas (Math, Reading, and Writing) to be incorporated within your project.
An identification of three different technologies that you will plan to use within your project to demonstrate your integration of technology in instructing children and youth with disabilities
A detailed summary information about each of the three identified technologies (cite references in APA to literature, websites and other resources that you will use to provide information about these technologies).
Action plan for video making, that is, action plan about how you will go about making short video clips, audio recordings, taking photos, collecting student samples of work and any other relevant artifacts as you will be required to provide evidence that you actually have incorporated these technologies in the classroom with your students across the semester. You will use these artifacts to put together the technology integration video at the end of this project. Within your action plan discuss also how you will address ethical issues for using the identified technologies (e.g. obtaining required permissions for videotaping, collecting student's work samples, and any other artifacts relevant to the project). It is your responsibility to ensure that your project is ethically sound and that you have obtained all the necessary permissions for any student/person that appear in the video and for any used photos, student samples of work, and any other relevant artifacts. You are required to use the provided by the instructor permission forms for that purpose. Your school release permission forms and/or permission forms that you completed for other class in this program will not be sufficient and acceptable. Neither verbal consent will be sufficient and acceptable. No projects will be reviewed and consequently graded without the obtained required permissions as per provided instructions.
Technology Integration Video:
Based on your proposal, you will create a video that demonstrates your integration of three different technologies in instructing children and youth with disabilities across the semester. The video (10 minutes) could be in a form of a narrated digital story, or an interactive narrated video photo montage. You should use the collected across the semester artifacts (e.g., video clips, audio recordings, pictures of your student work samples, photos of student using a given technology, and any other relevant artifacts) to tell your video narrated story about your classroom technology integration. Remember that it is your responsibility to ensure that your project is ethically sound and that you have obtained all the necessary permissions (e.g. for videotaping, collecting student's work samples, and using other artifacts relevant to your project).
The technology integration video should be professionally narrated (that is, you must narrate your video to provide information on how you integrated three different technologies in instructing children and youth with disabilities across the semester as well as things that you have learned about the importance of technology in instructing diverse learners) and visually appealing.
All supportive documentation should be submitted with the video, including but not limited to, any relevant artifacts, and resources.
To ensure confidentiality of your students and yourself, you are not allowed to use, create and edit the content of your video with fully AI Video Generators (e.g., invideo AI, Morph Studio AI, Moon Valley).
Artificial Intelligence (AI):
Per syllabus:
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - No student shall use AI, unless assigned by a faculty member, in order to generate text, summaries, images, or other materials and submit them as their own work.
To ensure confidentiality of your students and yourself, you are also not allowed to post and/or share your video(s) or the link to the video on publicly accessible platforms or websites (Facebook, TikTok, etc.). You may use You Tube, but only when saved as an unlisted video and shared the link only with the professor. You have to submit the video in your GoView assignment box as a secure, password-protected site and share it only with your university professor and/or as indicated in the permission form.
Process Reflection Paper:
You will write an individual process reflection paper at the end of the project in which you will reflect on the development and production processes, what worked, did not work, and what changes you would make for the future if you were to do this project again. In your reflection paper you should also demonstrate how you have gained a depth of knowledge and understanding of technology for instructing children and youth with disabilities and the implications for your future teaching practice as a result of this project. You are required to refer to examples from your video and supportive documentation in your reflection paper. You are also required to use 5 different references from the professional literature to support your reflection. In terms of the format for the Process Reflection Paper, you need to follow APA.
The paper should be at least five pages in length. Use the standard double space and a cover and a reference page should not be counted toward the required length.
Your headings should correspond to the required components in that way you will not miss any required components:
- Cover page
- Development and Production
- Knowledge and Understanding of Technology
- Grounding in the Professional Literature and Implications for Future Teaching Practice
- References
You are required to use the professional literature to support your reflection. This may include peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and professional websites of the professional organizations.
It is recommended that the grounding in the professional literature be evident across whole paper rather than in a separate section of the paper.
Permission Forms for Technology Integration Video Project have been provided in the folder under the same title in this module.
More detailed submission directions will be provided further in the semester.