This document discusses effective strategies for integrating technology into the classroom. It argues that technology should be used routinely across the curriculum to support active, cooperative, and real-world connected learning. Technology integration builds on curricular goals and helps students develop skills for an increasingly technological society and jobs that have not yet been created. The difference between technology integration and other uses of technology in schools is that the former should be transparent and enhance the curriculum rather than be an add-on. Teachers can effectively integrate technology by searching online, asking other educators, and thinking creatively rather than recreating existing lessons.

1. Effectively Integrating Technology
into Your Classroom
Kirsten Innes
EDIM 510
June 2012

2. Why Technology
Integration?
 Effective technology integration must happen across the
curriculum to enhance the learning process.
 Technology should support four key components of learning:
actively engaged learning, cooperative learning, frequent
interaction and feedback from both peers and
teachers, connection to the real-world.
 Technology integration is successful when the use of
technology is common place, not something special that
they “get” to do. It is routine.
 Technology integration builds upon and supports already
established curricular goals.

3. Why?
 Properly used, technology will help students acquire the skills
they need to survive in a complex, highly technological society
that is continuing to be developed.
 We are training students today for jobs that are not only not
created yet, but aren’t even thought of yet!
 We can’t teach students how to use a specific program, as
those programs will most likely be long gone! We need to teach
them the skills necessary to use any program.
 We need to teach students how to problem solve to figure out
how to do things on their own. We can not spoon feed them all
the time.

4. What’s the
Difference?
 Technology should not be the extra thing that has to be
fit into the school day. Technology is another tool that is
to be used to enhance the curriculum.
 Technology Integration should not stand out to the
learner. It should be transparent and routine.
 Technology Integration is not just going to the computer
lab to learn keyboarding and basic computing skills.

5. How?
 The Internet is your greatest resource!
 Do Google Searches! (examples: “How do I integrate
technology into the 3rd grade science curriculum?”
“Online activities for 2 digit multiplication”).
 Ask your PLN!
 Do not recreate the wheel! If you want to do
something, you are most likely not the first! Go find what
you are looking for and modify what you find to fit your
needs!
 Think outside of the box!

6. Who?
 Teacher Directed Instruction
 Student Directed
 Teacher Created
 Student Created
It all works!
After helping students learn to problem solve and figure out
basic computing skills, they will be able to think, create and
develop their unique ideas!

7. Sources
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 Slide 4 image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frauleinschiller/4702688723
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 Slide 5 image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5604221841/sizes/
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 All other images courtesy of Discovery Education