Resources for Technology Integration
Free materials, downloads, tools, and suggested readings to better understand technology integration.
In this section, you will find materials and resources for teaching about how to successfully integrate technology into the classroom, whether you are conducting a two-hour session or class or can spend a day or two on the topic.
We believe you will find much here from which you can build a set of experiences tailored to class participants for the purpose of exploring technology integration:
SUGGESTED READINGS AND VIEWINGS
More Edutopia.org Resources on Technology Integration:- Edutopia's Technology Integration Core Strategy page
- Article: "Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many"
- Video: An Introduction to Technology Integration
- Schools That Work Package: Project Learning Meets 1-to-1 Laptop Technology in Maine
- Article: "Technology Integration: What Experts Say"
- Resource Roundup: Digital Learning Day Resources
- Article: "Technology Tools to Get Teachers Started"
- Schools That Work Package: Online Learning in Idaho
- Article: "Technology Integration for Elementary Schools"
- Video: Schools Use Games for Learning and Assessment
- Resource Roundup: Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying
- Classroom Guide: Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media
- Discussion Group: Technology Tools and Online Learning Resources
- Quiz: Tech Savvy Teaching: How Do You Rank?
- Technology Bloggers: Nicholas Provenzano (General), Mary Beth Hertz (Elementary), and Andrew Marcinek (High School)
Top Edutopia.org Case Study Videos on Technology Integration:
Lower Elementary- Students Get a Wired Education Mary Scroggs Elementary School in Chapel Hill, NC
- Kids Pilot Their Own Learning with Technology at Auburn Early Education Center in Auburn, AL
- Tech-Fueled Differentiated Instruction Engages Students at Forest Lake Elementary, in Columbia, SC
- Kids Monitor the Terrain with Tech at Hughes Elementary School in Red Lake Falls, MN
- Using Today's Technology Tools to Study Yesterday's at Ferryway School in Malden, MA
- One-to-one Laptop Integration with PBL at King Middle School in Portland, ME
- EAST: Tech Inspires Self-Directed Learning at Horace Mann Magnet Middle School in Little Rock, AR
- Digital Media Empower Youth at the DIgital Youth Network in Chicago, IL
- Transformed by Technology at High Tech High, San Diego, CA
- Harness Students' Digital Smarts at Westwood Schools in Camilla, GA
- A Commitment to High Tech Education at Harrison Central High School, in Gulfport, MI
- Tech in Real Life: Students See Devices as Tools, Not Toys at Clearfield High School in Clearfield, UT
Additional Resources Elsewhere on the Web:
Organizations- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Center for Children and Technology
- Department of Education Office of Educational Technology
- National Association for Media Literacy Education
- Global SchoolNet Foundation
- The Joan Ganz Cooney Center
- Oracle Education Foundation
- The Education Arcade at MIT
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Center for Technology in Learning
- National Education Technology Plan 2010
- Take a Giant Step: A Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age from The Cooney Center
- Integrating Technology with Student Centered Learning from The Nellie Mae Education Foundation
- Using the Technology of Today in the Classroom Today (PDF) from The Education Arcade
- Cyberlearning Research Summit 2012
- The SAMR Model of Technology Integration (by Dr. Ruben Puentudura)
- The TPACK Model of Technology Integration
- Best Websites for Teaching and Learning from The American Association of School Librarians
- Top 100 Tools for Learning, a crowdsourced list from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
- Khan Academy Educational Video Library (Watch Edutopia's interview with founder Sal Khan)
- EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Science Digital Library
- iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
- CK-12 Flexbooks Digital Library
- The National Archives' Digital Classroom
- WebQuest.org from San Diego State University Department of Educational Technology
- Cyberbee Curriculum Ideas for using the internet in the classroom
Recommended Texts:
- Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Company
- Copyright © 2002
- ISBN: 0-7879-6082-9
- Teaching and Learning with Technology (4th Edition)
- Judy Lever-Duffy, Jean B. McDonald, Al P. Mizell
- Allyn and Bacon
- Copyright © 2010
- ISBN-10: 0137073984 | ISBN-13: 978-0137073986
- Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools
- Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum
- ISTE
- Copyright © 2007
- ISBN: 9781564842343
- Empowering Students With Technology (Second Edition)
- Alan November
- Corwin Press
- Copyright © 2010
- ISBN: 9781412974257
- Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (5th Edition)
- M. D. Roblyer and Aaron H. Doering
- Allyn and Bacon
- Copyright © 2010
- ISBN-10: 0136101372 | ISBN-13: 9780136101376
- Leading 21st-Century Schools: Harnessing Technology for Engagement and Achievement
- Lynne Schrum and Barbara B. Levin
- Corwin Press
- Copyright © 2009
- ISBN-10: 1412972957 | ISBN-13: 978-1412972956
- Cases on Educational Technology Integration in Urban Schools
- Irene Chen and Dallas McPheeters, Editors
- IGI Global
- Copyright © 2011
- ISBN-10: 1613504926 | ISBN-13: 978-1613504925
- Differentiating Instruction with Technology in K-5 Classrooms
- Grace E. Smith and Stephanie Throne
- ISTE
- Copyright © 2007
- ISBN: 9781564842336
- Differentiating Instruction with Technology in Middle School Classrooms
- Grace E. Smith and Stephanie Throne
- ISTE
- Copyright © 2009
- ISBN: 9781564842602
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
This PowerPoint presentation introduces technology integration. It discusses the importance of technology integration, changes in teacher/student roles, and what components are needed for technology integration. The presentation includes examples of classrooms integrating technology. It then asks for group participation.
At Mary Scroggs Elementary School, tech specialist Susan Dodge works with a student to film a portion of the school's daily morning news show.
The presentation consists of 12 slides, and is available either as an online HTML presentation or a downloadable PowerPoint file.
You can use the HTML version online during class time if you have a computer and a presentation system with Internet access; use it as you would any lecture presentation material.
Download the PowerPoint file to your hard drive for use on your laptop or a classroom computer; open and run the PowerPoint file just as you would any other PowerPoint presentation. You can also make changes and insert your own course information.
In addition, each slide in the downloaded and online versions contains Speaker Notes you can use as lecture notes when you show the presentation.
If you do not have Microsoft PowerPoint and do not wish to use the online HTML presentation, you can download PowerPoint Viewer for your PC, which will allow you to share this presentation with an audience but will not allow you to edit it in any way.
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Web Quest sites have been updated.
I was not able to open three sites listed under "Explore and Discuss". The sites are Planetary Postcard, Energy Quest, and Cavern World. Was anyone able to open them, or also not able to open them?
Sites did not open
I was not able to open three sites listed under "Explore and Discuss". The sites are Planetary Postcard, Energy Quest, and Cavern World. Was anyone able to open them, or also not able to open them?
Grade 3/4 Multiage
Being your partner teacher Pam, I am excited too! I really liked the webquest.org because I have struggled with creating webquests myself and finding a tool to help students create them. I am looking forward to our year together and finding additional ways to integrate technology (such as many of these resources here) with our students!
Tracy Lavallee
3/4 Teacher
Underhill ID
Jericho, VT
Technology Integration Resources
This is a very good overview of resources but what I found here is something under 'Themed Web Quests' that I could integrate (talking the language already!) into the Guidance curriculum: Quest for Respect with THE GROUCHY LADYBUG by Eric Carle.
Even though this is a sliver of the wealth of information - that is the point. Getting a better understanding of how to use technology in the classroom is finding simple resources such as this and trying them out in the classroom. Getting comfortable with small bits at a time is central to moving Digital Immigrants into some sort of proficient teacher using tech resources.
A lot of the information regarding WEB Quest I think could be very useful to helping bridge the gap from philosophy to doing.....
The articles on brain based research/learning were interesting and it is fascinating how the Key Largo Schools took that information and brought down money to provide computers and other tech tools to update/integrate their curriculum. THIS is a model we should all study!
Webquest
I went to the links about web quests. This is a fabulous way to organize a "simulation" type activity. I had been using a lot of "Interact" simulations, but realize they are outdated. The web quest is a much more manageable system for doing this type of activity in social studies.
Grade 3/4 multiage
Hi- I checked out a number of the resources,links above and found them very interesting and useful (as in I'll try them next year). I am especially interested in the e-pals which I've known about for quite awhile but have never explored. I know my kids will be excited to write letters to children around the world! I followed the link to the top two articles by Diane Curtis, Maine schools acquiring laptops for all their students and what a remarkable transformation they've seen and the Change in Attitude article about how students have become so much more engaged through the use of technology. Very exciting stuff!