What Is Successful Technology Integration?Well-integrated use of technology resources by thoroughly trained teachers makes twenty-first-century learning possible.
This guide is organized into six sections:
- Introduction
- Why Integrate Tech?
- What Is Tech Integration?
- How to Integrate Tech Tools
- Workshop Activities
- Resources for Tech Integration
Technology integration is the use of technology resources -- computers, digital cameras, mobile devices like smartphones, iPads and other tablets, software applications, the Internet, etc. -- in daily classroom practices, and in the management of a school. Technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is routine and transparent. Technology integration is achieved when a child or a teacher doesn't stop to think that he or she is using a technology tool.
Technology integration is achieved when technology is accessible and readily available for the task at hand. Technology integration is achieved when technology tools support the curricular goals, and help the students to effectively reach their goals. Students are more actively engaged in projects when technology integration is a seamless part of the learning process.
Students at an editing station match music to images in a tribute to the firemen of 9/11.
The acceptance of change is a major requirement for technology integration. Technology is continuously, and rapidly, evolving. It is an ongoing process. It demands continual learning. Change is not always easy. The initial human reaction to change is resistance. Resistance makes for slow change, but change is inevitable.
When effectively integrated into the curriculum, technology tools can extend learning in powerful ways. These tools can provide students and teachers with:
- Access to up-to-date, primary source material
- Methods of collecting and recording data
- Ways to collaborate with students, teachers, and experts around the world
- Opportunities for expressing understanding via images, sound, and text
- Learning that is relevant and assessment that is authentic
- Training for publishing and presenting their new knowledge.
You will find many videos and articles with examples of successful technology integration in the Resources for Tech Integration section of this guide.
Continue to the next section of the guide, How to Integrate Technology Tools
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Merci
Good Article! Merci beaucoup
Technology integration As
Technology integration
As teachers we need to move from the traditional methods of teaching to new methods where technology is integrated into the classroom. However there are still some barriers which are front of the teachers when it comes to technology because some of the schools are in the rural areas where there is no infrustracture.
Good Article! Sometimes I am
Good Article! Sometimes I am overwhelmed by all the information available to me and the students.
Integrating Technology
It's amazing how much there is on the web and for technology to support our students! I wish we as teachers had more time to really find what is out there. I know I spend my summer finding great technology and sites and then using that throughout the year. Of course technology is changing so quickly so it is important to have time to learn about the new technological advances and then have time to get it ready for the following year. I find it very exciting to see what technology is coming up with next but at the same time, I feel a little, actually very overwhelmed by keeping up with it and then integrating it in my classroom.
The initial resistance
The initial resistance comments from the past were great and I will suggest using them at my school's in-service training to open people's eyes about their own attitudes towards today's technology.
I also feel that the comment "Technology DEMANDS continual learning" is something that must be an accepted policy in any technology curriculum planning.
Amazing New Tools
What amazes me most is the incredible number of data collection tools that are now available, especially in the area of science. What used to take beakers and test tubes, test strips etc, can now be done in a instant with handheld digital devices that the data can then be put in the computer to be analysized. Students can then graph their results and see more accurately what the data is telling them. I am excited about these and hope that budgets willing, we can begin to have some of these data collection tools available to our students.
I am also beginning to think about how to use computers as a means for our science notebooks and then we can easily import the data and graphs right into a digital notebook that others can look at and give feedback on. Students can word process their observations, use digital cameras to show what they did. There are so many possibilities!
Tracy Lavallee
3/4 Teacher
Underhill ID
Jericho, VT
I have seen many different
I have seen many different ways of intergrating technology into curriculum throughout our schools. Students working at the high school level working independently developing a broadcasting class. They are taught from the beginning of this course how to work independently and how to integrate what they are doing with others in order to make a great broadcast.
Integration of technology
Lots going on in this Gulfport, Mississippi classroom.
I do not have access to probes but I'd love that component to use.
My students are busy creating a documentary within their community where they interview older members as well as younger students to see what each did or do for recreation in our town. We hope to enter the video in a competition being held in May.
My students use Power Point to share their research on health and science topics. They also tutor other students using resources they find to support the learning topic needs.
I feel like I still need to do more with my students as we learn more effective ways to integrate technology.
I wish there were time in the day!
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Good article it was very helpful.