2. What is technology integration?
Technology integration is the use of technology like
etc. for teaching and learning
3. Why technology integration?
The availability of new
technology tools that
can help the teacher in
making teaching
interesting and
engaging
The technology skills and knowledge that
students gain in the classroom will create the
foundation for the skills and knowledge they
will need in the future.
The decision of the National
Curriculum Framework to use
technology to support and extend
curricular objectives
4. How does one integrate ?
Make technology available and accessible
Allow technology tools to support the curricular goals, and help the
students to effectively reach these goals
Incorporate students’ use of technology into meaningful activities in
the lesson plans
Ensure some key components of learning: active
engagement, participation in groups, frequent
interaction and feedback and connection
to real-world experts
5. What are the benefits of technology
integration?
• A. Can engage and motivate the learner -
Keeps students focused for longer
periods of time.
Makes students more excited to learn.
Enables students to learn at their own pace.
Caters to different learning styles
6. What are the benefits of technology
integration?
•B. Can support new approaches to teaching/learning, like:
Encouraging cooperative learning
Developing problem solving and higher level skills
Encouraging self learning
Catering to multiple intelligences
Different learning styles
7. What are the benefits of technology
integration?
Develops new skills, like:
Tech tools for
visualizing and
modelling help
students to
experiment, observe
and view
experiments in
graphic ways
8. What are the benefits of technology
integration?
Develops skills required for an information age, like:
Children can
express
understanding
through images,
sound and text
9. How does it help the teacher?
Helps in producing
interesting, diverse and
student friendly material
Makes
teaching
interesting
and fun
Gives access to more
information and ideas
10. How can teachers learn to
integrate?
Teachers need to learn :
Different ways of meeting the curriculum goals
The use of technology enabled methods of learning to make it an
inherent part of the teaching learning process
To evaluate and integrate the available material into the learning
process
Access, create and share knowledge
11. What are some potential pitfalls if not used
well?
• Too much information
• Inability to choose relevant information
• Overemphasis on information rather than investigation
• Passive learning instead of active learning
• Technology becoming a replacement for hands
• on experience
• Technology replacing a teacher
12. Get creative !
Technology is just another tool. Used judiciously and creatively, it can
bring about a change in the teaching learning process.
