This document discusses technology's influence on student learning. It outlines three primary goals of using technology in education: improving achievement in content areas, developing higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills, and preparing students for the workforce. Several studies are cited showing that technology can enhance student learning through active engagement, collaboration, feedback, and real-world applications. Effective technology integration requires teacher professional development, alignment with standards, incorporation into daily lessons, individualized feedback, collaborative projects, and administrative support.

2. Technology’s Influence on Student
Learning  Let’s take a look
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3. How does technology influence
student learning?
 Three primary goals
 Achievement in content area learning
 Higher order thinking and problem solving skill
development
 Workforce preparation

4. How does technology influence
student learning?
 The relationship between instructional technology and
student achievement
 Vermont Reasoning and Problem Solving Standards
 Dimensions of Learning Model

5. How does technology influence
student learning?
 The Results
Next, 58 valid data sets were matched in order to conduct a true repeated
measures methodology (pre-test vs. post-test). The results are displayed
below for the key subscales of interest:
Subscale Class.Motiv. Metacog. Inq.Learn App.of.Skills
Pre-test 4.00 2.17 2.49 2.04
Post-test 3.97 2.36 2.52 1.87
t-value .347 -1.96 -.458 2.00
df 52 56 56 56
p (2-tailed) .730 .055 .649 .050
Only the metacognition variable changed significantly in the
predicted direction (1-tailed test probability = .028). Students
reported higher levels of metacognitive skills at the end of the course
than they did at the beginning.

6. What and how children can learn
 How technology can enhance how and what children
learn:
 Active engagement
 Participation in groups
 Frequent interaction and feedback
 Connection to real-world contexts

7. What and how children can learn
 Students acquire a wide array of technology based
skills
 Will need to compete in the global market
 “communicate, collaborate, analyze, create, innovate, an
d solve problems”
 Skills mastery in science, technology, and innovation
are the keys to stronger economic growth.

8. What and how children can learn
 Spend more time engaging in collaborative work than non-laptop students
 Lead to more student writing and to writing of higher quality
 Increase access to information and improve research analysis skills
 Become collaborators (interact with each other about their work)
 Direct their own learning
 Readily engage in problem solving and critical thinking
 Consistently show deeper and more flexible uses of technology
 Spend more time doing homework on computers

9. Seven Factors for Successfully
Implementing Technology for
Learning
 Effective professional development for teachers in the integration of technology into
instruction is necessary to support student learning.
 Teachers’ direct application of technology must be aligned to local and/or state
curriculum standards.
 Technology must be incorporated into the daily learning schedule (i.e., not as a
supplement or after-school tutorial)
 Programs and applications must provide individualized feedback to students and
teachers and must have the ability to tailor lessons to individual student needs.

10. Seven Factors for Successfully
Implementing Technology for
Learning
 Technology use must be incorporated in a collaborative environment to be most
effective.
 Project-based learning and real-world simulations must be the main focus of
instructional technology utilization.
 Effective technology integration requires leadership, support, and modeling from
teachers, administrators, and the community/parents.

11. Conclusion
 Technology will continue to change how we live, how we interact and how we
work.
 Employers indicate the extreme importance of computer competencies
 Using technology will provide increased access to library and other on-line
resources
 Provide more opportunities for cooperative and collaborative projects.
 Advance skill for employment in the information age.

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