This document discusses best practices for technology integration in organizations. It recommends effectively implementing 21st century technology, aligning changes with goals, describing impacts, engaging stakeholders, providing training and support, and giving feedback. True technology integration involves thorough training, using technology as a problem-solving tool, and collecting/analyzing data. The document also discusses providing outreach using technology workshops, seminars, and shared media to increase family involvement. Finally, it addresses budget considerations for ongoing technology needs and infrastructure in schools.

1. Best Practices
and Trends for
Technology
Integration
Carita Graham
Dec. 2, 2019
Cur/545
Deborah Clark

2. Creating Change in
Organizations
• Effective implementation of 21st Century technological learning within the
organization.
• Align the organizational change with the goals and expectations.
• Describe the change and identify those impacted by the organizational
change.
• Engage the members of the organization through group collaboration and
constructive feedback.
• Implement a strategy, provide training to those who need it, and devise a
support structure for all the members of the organization.
• Provide feedback to the positive/negative improvements made by the
organization both collectively and individually.

3. Recognizing True Technology Integration
What is true technology integration?
 It is the well-integrated use of technology resources by
thoroughly trained individuals that make twenty-first-
century learning possible.
 It is more than just the use of technology; it is when the
technology becomes second nature and little thinking
about it is required.
 Involves using technology to problem solve and
understand a real life situation by weighing the options
and formulate possible solutions.
 It is collecting, analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing
data to make improvements to the organization.

4. Recognizing True Technology Integration
• It is creating and maintaining a budget for college or a future
purchase via technology.
• It is conducting research and presenting the outcome for others
to gage understanding.
• True technology enhance communication between the
organization and other people both inside and outside the
organization.
• Way communication can be improved:
• Emails,
• Newsletters,
• Microsoft Office,
• Pamphlets, and
• Websites.
• Other opportunities involve District, Local, and State level
governing entities (Board agendas).

5. Technology Integration
• Problem Based Classrooms
• Multimedia in the K-12 Classroom
• Technology Basics for Teachers
• Building an Electronic Community
• Internet Content for the Classroom
• Web-Based Instructional Tools
• Assistive Technology for the
Classroom Teacher
• Technology Leadership Issues in
Educational Technology
• Desktop Publishing
• Virtual Field Trips
• Distance Learning for K-12 Instruction
• Instructional Technology through
Backward Design
• WebQuests
• Scavenger Hunts
• Treasure Hunts
• Electronic Portfolios
• Reflective Journaling
• Troubleshooting
• Technology Action Research
• Using Information Technology In Schools
• Internet Mind Maps

6. Providing Community Outreach
using technology resources
Outreach is a tool to help expand person’s access to services,
practices, and/or products. The purposes of outreach are as
follows:
• Educate or inform a targeted population in an effort
to increasing their knowledge and/or skills.
• Educate or inform people who interact with the
targeted population.
• Establish beneficial connections between the targeted
population and/or the organizations.

7. Providing Community Outreach
using technology resources
• The organization can provides free of charge, hands-on workshops for
teachers, students, and community persons.
• The organization can provide unique learning opportunity for adult
learners sponsored by students on common technologies such as social
media applications and email, to hardware, digital streaming, and cloud
storage.
• The organization can offer one-on-one sessions to assist individuals in
using the technologies they own to receive maximum benefits.
• The organization can provide seminar on how to use technology to
create documents, enhances creativity for personal or financial gain,
and to create and distribute resumes for educational or professional
purposes.

8. INCREASING INFORMATION
TO/FOR FAMILY INVOLVEMENT
• “Early success at reading acquisition is one of the keys that unlocks a lifetime
of reading habits” (Cunningham & Stanovich, 1997).
• An increase in family participation in pre-kindergarten programs has been
linked to greater student academic motivation and stronger social and
emotional skills among all young children, regardless of ethnic and
socioeconomic background (Redding et al., 2004).
• Schools that succeed engaging families from diverse backgrounds:
• Focus on building trusting, collaborative relationships among teachers, families,
and community members through technology and other shared media.
• Recognize, respect, and address families’ needs as well as their differences both
educationally, financially, socially, and culturally, as it relates to technology use.
• Embrace a philosophy of partnership where power and responsibility are shared
and nobody is made to feel inferior or superior.

9. Available Funding Opportunities
for Schools & School Districts
• Endowments
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Donations
• Fundraisers
• State Taxes
• Public Charities
• Private Charities
• Churches
• Alumni
• Parish/City Bonds
• Budgets (Per pupil monies)
• Foundations
• Public Funding Opportunities
• E-Grants
• Property Taxes
• Parish Taxes
• State Department of
Education
• Federal Funds
• Businesses

10. Budget and Funding Considerations for Technology
Integration at Organizations of Learning
• Considerations involve providing one to one student computer.
• Consideration involves up-to-date technology.
• Providing desktop computers.
• Access to laptop computers.
• Tablets, I-pad, and clickers.
• Headsets, USB drives.
• Programs for Math, reading, science, social studies, and other areas.
• Smartboards and Promethean boards.
• Projectors, cameras, document cameras.
• Printers, scanners, speakers.
• Routers, ethernet cables.
• Security and virus programs.
• Chromebooks.
• Google Classroom, Google drive, Gmail.
• 3D Printers.
• Microsoft Office.
• Internet Access.
• Wifi.
• Online testing.

11. Conclusion
The shift to digital learning requires schools to commit
themselves to true integration, otherwise, the organization will
waste money on technology that will become obsolete before
the organization gets optimum use. Teachers within the
educational organization hold the responsibility of creating 21st
century learners knowledgeable of academic and technological
information. As technology changes constantly, educators must
change themselves and provide students and stakeholders with
information necessary to grow the society. Technology can no
longer be just a computer or just a cell phone, but maximized to
be used as an information outlet to a highway of knowledge.
School and school districts must create a blueprint to ensure that
all persons involved in the organization embrace, understand,
reinforce, and receive support if needed to continue a journey
further down the information highway.

12. References
https://www.ct4me.net/technology_integration_resources_2.htm
Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1997). Early Reading
Acquisition and Its Relation to Reading Experience and Ability 10
Years Later. Developmental Psychology, 33, 934-945.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.33.6.934
https://www.esasd.net/Page/5454
https://www.pulselearning.com/blog/6-steps-effective-
organizational-change-management/
Redding, S., Langdon, J., Meyer, J., & Sheley, P. (2004). The effects
of comprehensive parent engagement on student learning
outcomes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project.
Retrieved from http://www.hfrp.org/publications-
resources/browse-our-publications/theeffects-of-comprehensive-
parent-engagement-on-student-learning-outcomes