Using Technology in the Classroom
Teaching Teachers How to Incorporate Technology into Their Classrooms
Integrating Technology into YOUR Classroom
Being an educator in the 21st Century means using 21st Century tools which means TECHNOLOGY. When given this task, some educators ask themselves how can I incorporate TECHNOLOGY if I don't know how to use TECHOLOGY? We've got some easy How-To videos and step-by-step instructions to help guide you through this someone daunting task. Ok, so now you know how to use the TECHNOLOGY but how can you incorporate it into your classroom? Need new ideas of ways to include TECHNOLOGY in your lessons? Or new ways to have students use TECHNOLOGY in conjunction with your class? Check out the Technology in the Classroom and Web Resources tabs for more information!
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In The News
Why We Need To Embrace Technology In The Classroom Right Now
Classroom memories from childhood recall images of dusty green chalkboards, manual pencil sharpeners and textbook covers made out of brown paper bags. While remnants of those old school days remain in classrooms around the country, many have been catapulted into the future with digital whiteboards, iPads for kindergartners and Chromebooks replacing textbooks.
October 8, 2014
Technology in the Classroom: KIPP Bets on Blended Learning
For the first time, schools in the largest charter network in the United States are investing in technology in a big way. Technology is everywhere at KIPP Austin Obras, a charter elementary school in Texas. One day at the beginning of the school year, first-graders grappled with math concepts as they tried to coax JiJi the penguin across the screen of their netbooks.
October 29, 2014
Leveling the Playing Field with Technology: It's No Longer a Choice
The vision of Polk School District, Georgia, is to create a transformational learning environment that will keep students at the forefront of their own academic pursuits. Every student, regardless of his or her socioeconomic background, is at the center of the educational process in our approach
November 3, 2014
What is being said about technology in the classroom
Technology by itself will almost never change education
— Dylan Arena, Ph.D.,
co-founder and chief learning scientist at Kidaptive
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We don't all have to study the same thing anymore. One kid can be interested in butterflies and take a journey down that path, while another can be learning about rockets, and both are learning the practical skills of physics.
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— Matt Wallaert, behavioral scientist at Bing.com
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
— Nancy Kassebaum, Former US Senator
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Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event
— Dr. Heidi-Hayes Jacobs, President and Founder of Curriculum Designers and Curriculcum21