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The Importance of Integrating Technology into Curriculum:

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The Importance of Integrating Technology into Curriculum:

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-Technology keeps students engaged and promotes creativity.
-Provides an alternate way of learning that best fits each student
-Encourages individualism and growth
-Prepares students for real-world scenarios and circumstances

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Technology has become part of the educational process, but too often it is separate and not integrated into the learning experience.Today, Education World offers easy and painless ways to integrate technology into your daily routine. Included: Nineteen activities and nearly 50 Web sites.
Integrating technology into the curriculum is a priority -- if not a mandate -- in most schools today. Most educational technology experts agree, however, that technology should be integrated, not as a separate subject or as a once-in-a-while project, but as a tool to promote and extend student learning on a daily basis. The challenge, of course, is in finding ways to use technology -- and to help students use it -- that don't take time away from core subjects.

For many teachers, a lack of personal experience with technology presents an additional challenge. In order to incorporate technology-based activities and projects into their curriculum, those teachers first must find the time to learn to use the tools and understand the terminology necessary for participation in those projects or activities.

Used properly, however, technology can be a tool for teachers as well as for students. To help teachers new to technology gain experience in using it, and to help tech savvy teachers incorporate technology more fully into their daily routines, Education World offers the following easy ways in which you can seamlessly integrate technology into your daily and weekly classroom routines.

1. Include URLs in your monthly calendar.
Each month, Education World provides a printable and editable coloring calendar for classroom use. Before distributing copies of the calendar to your students, add the URLs of a few sites that will add to their understanding of the months events -- and encourage them to visit those sites. TheSeptember calendar, for example, might offer links to sites about Labor Day, Grandparents' Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month. (A kid-friendly search engine such as Yahoo Kids will help you locate appropriate sites.)

2. Challenge students with online mathematics problems.
Add a daily or weekly mathematics challenge to your seatwork assignments, math lessons, or extra credit activities. The Math ForumsMath Problem of the Week offers word problems in five categories -- math fundamentals, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus. The AIMS Puzzle Corner provides more than 100 math-related puzzles appropriate for students in upper elementary grades and middle school. Most include printable worksheets. Aunty Math's Math Challenges for K-5 Learners offers biweekly word problems for younger students, while high school students will enjoy the news-related math problems at Math Counts. Dont like todays problem? Not to worry! Most of the sites listed also include extensive archives. If you teach grades 3-8, extend your students online math experience and encourage them to match wits with students around the world by participating in the Abacus International Math Challenge.

3. Introduce a word of the day.
Extend students vocabulary by including an online word of the day in opening activities, seatwork assignments, or language arts lessons. The Daily Buzzword atWord Central provides a word of the day and related activity appropriate for upper elementary students. Vocabulary Builder offers words and definitions for students in grades 4-6 and grades 6-9. The words and definitions at A Word a Day and Word of the Day are best for students in middle and high school.

4. Keep them spelling.
Spelling is not a subject that should die in elementary school. Prove it to your middle and high school students by adding spelling to language arts lessons or extra credit assignments. Spelling lists can be found atSpellingcity.com.

5. Make history real.
For many kids, history is only a subject in a book; one that's unrelated to real people, real events, or todays news. Personalize history lessons for those students by beginning each history lesson with a quick visit toToday in History or This Day in History.

6. Make the news a learning tool.
Help students better understand current events and connect todays news to their own lives by encouraging them to further explore the issues of the day.How Stuff Works also is an extensive site with information on a vast number of topics. Today's students, for example, might want to learn How Stinger Missiles Work, How Stem Cells Work, or How Hybrid Cars Work.

7. Keep 'em guessing!
It's Friday afternoon and most students have their eyes on the clock and their minds on a weekend of freedom. If you have access to enough computers that students can work individually or in small groups, try to keep the learning going with some stimulating online games. Solving the problems atMystery Net generally demands more logic than Math. That sites features include Get-a-Clue, a daily mystery appropriate for younger students; See-n-Solve, a weekly mystery featuring USA TV's Detective Monk; and Solve-it!, a monthly mystery in which students read a mystery and then solve the crime. The latter two activities are best for older students. Or, simply reward students for a week of hard work by allowing them a few minutes to play some of the online Logic Games at SuperKids. Games include Battleship, checkers, tic-tac-toe, BreakOut, and more.

Article by Linda Starr
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Technology Integration in Schools - An Introduction

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Importance of Technology in Schools

Through the years, technology had proven how it plays a vital role in our daily lives. Without it, there would be no technological advancements that make things easier
for all of us. Without technology, communication between people separated by great distances will almost be nil. Without technology, businesses will never be able to reach out to their customers and suppliers abroad. Technology is truly important to all of us.

One aspect of our lives that greatly benefitted from the advantages brought by technology is education. In many aspects, technology had brought various advancements to schools. Here are the reasons why technology is so important to schools.

Today, technology is truly playing an important role in schools and has brought dramatic advancements in the way both teachers and students go on with their daily school activities. Technology had enhanced teaching and learning in modern school life in these aspects:

Increased availability with various learning materials

In the past, students only have their books and their few hours with their teachers to depend on to learn something but with the internet, students are now able to look for other learning materials that can help them anytime of the day. They will not be restricted to the textbooks that are given to them by the school rather they will also be able to look for materials that can help them understand their lessons more. In short, technology widens the possibilities of how the students can learn their lessons.

It is common knowledge that not all students learn the same way. Just listening to their teacher might work for other students while some might need other types of learning before they can understand the topics being discussed. Fortunately, with the number of various technologies that can be used, all students will have the chance to properly understand their
lessons. They can watch tutorial videos from the internet or even, look for other kinds of books that they can understand more.

Availability of various digital resources for teachers.

Schools can now use different media materials to help them enhance the learning experience of students. Some of these include PowerPoint presentations and projectors that can demonstrate concepts more effectively compared than arm-waving. Other digital resources that can be used by teachers are digital television channels, DVDs, learning games and digital radio.

Students are more inclined to learn something when something tickles their curiosity and new digital resources will be able to do that. Students will be more likely to listen to their teachers and try to grasp their lessons when they are enjoying what they are doing and with the available technologies today, teachers will surely be able to find something that can help their students focus on the lessons more.

Schools had truly greatly benefitted from technology. Technology had increased the number of digital learning tools that teachers can use to teach their students. Technology had also opened the possibility of learning to 24 hours each day due to the available resources online. With these various benefits, it is without doubt that technology helps accelerate learning in schools.

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Welcome to the updated Digital Citizenship Website

Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the continuously developing norms of appropriate, responsible, and empowered technology use. Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.

The new Digital Citizenship Handbook for School Leaders: Fostering Positive Interactions Online by Mike Ribble and Marty Park, is now available at ISTE.org or Amazon.com

The Knights of 17th Street​is a fiction book for Young Adults that connects with the ideas of digital citizenship in an action filled format. Check out more information here.

Order the paperback or Kindle version from Amazon.

Digital Citizenship Today

The concept of Digital Citizenship is being viewed as an important area of educational knowledge not only in the United States but around the world. Whether it is called digital citizenship, digital wellness or digital ethics the issues are the same; how should we act when we are using digital tools, interacting with others online, and what should be taught to help the next generation be better stewards of this technology.

After 15 years working on this topic there has been some updating to the nine elements of Digital Citizenship. In addition to the updates to the the Digital Citizenship definition, as well as the Nine Elements a new Framework has been created to help users to understand and organize these themes. It is the S3 Framework (Safe, Savvy and Social). Go to the Nine Elements page to learn more about these changes.

Some great materials and discussions for our 2019 Digital Citizenship week! Here are a couple of conversations on the topic: Facebook Live with Tito de Morais (Portugal) - Facebook: facebook.com/cyberbullying.pt/videos/464966610778236/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/_HbNRzyoNBc and a Podcast with LaKisha Hudson (Dr. Hudson's Counseling Corner) Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-hudsons-counseling-corner/id1433902401#episodeGuid=Buzzsprout-1813330
YouTube: https://youtu.be/lF71q5x5Dn8 Buzzsprout: http://www.buzzsprout.com/152176

Working with Dr. Marty Park we have released a a new, updated book on Digital Citizenship titled - The Digital Citizenship Handbook for School Leaders: Fostering Positive Interactions Online. Once again we will be partnering with ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). Don't let the title scare you off, if you are looking for information on Digital Citizenship, you are a school leader. If you have questions or comments about the material found on this website please click on the Contact Us link to send us your information. If you are interested in reading more about Digital Citizenship please go to the Resources page then scroll down to Publications and click on the link for information you are interested in. See the latest article in Tech & Learning (Spring 2019) - Digital Citizenship Framework Updated

For those who are a member of ISTE please join the Digital Citizenship PLN (Professional Learning Network) to see how you can get involved. There is also a new initiative for everyone interested in the Digital Citizenship discussion - #digcitcommit. Go to the website - https://digcitcommit.org/ to join in. We need everyone to lend their voice to this topic.

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Technology is everywhere--entwined in almost every part of our culture. It affects how we live, work, play, and most importantly learn. With mobile and other wireless devices like the IoT becoming an increasing requirement across every industry today, it only makes sense that our schools are also effectively deploying mobile technology in the classroom. However, for many schools, implementing the latest technology is a difficult strategy to navigate.

There are two main reasons for this:

Schools are on the fence about the use of certain mobile devices; thinking they're more a burden than a strategic learning tool.

Schools want to deploy mobile devices but their WiFi networks are not capable of properly supporting the technology

In both cases it's a lose lose situation for everyone involved, especially the students.

To help your school confidently make the decision to embrace mobile technology in the classroom, we've put together a list of 10 reasons why it will benefit your students.

Then, we've outlined how your school can make sure it's ready to actually support those new/added devices.

1) Prepares students for their future careers.

If used correctly, mobile devices and the applications they support, will help prepare students for their future careers.

2) Helps to support different learning styles.

Integrating technology into the classroom is an effective way to connect with students of all learning styles.

3) Collaboration.

It gives students the opportunity to enhance the interaction with their classmates and instructors by encouraging collaboration.

4) Improves digital citizenship.

Using technology in the classroom gives teachers and other faculty members the opportunity to develop their student's digital citizenship skills. It's one thing to use mobile devices, it's a completely other thing to know how to use them correctly and responsibly.

5) Integrating technology in education helps students stay engaged.

Most students today have been using mobile devices like tablets and smartphones to play and learn since they could crawl. So it only seems logical to align today's classrooms with the way that your students want and are used to learning.

6) Enhances the learning experience.

Combining new tech like VR (virtual reality) with traditional classroom instruction is one example of how the introduction of new technology can enhance the learning experience and create new opportunities.

7) Improves access to information.

When mobile technology is readily available and performing correctly in the classroom, students are able to access the most up-to-date information quicker and easier than ever before.

8) The traditional passive learning model is broken.

With technology in the classroom the teacher becomes the encourager, adviser, and coach.

9) Technology helps students be more responsible.

Owning your own device or borrowing the school's devices gives students the opportunity to improve their decision making skills as well as taking ownership of a valuable (and often times expensive) device. Again, this needs to be complemented by proper digital citizenship training to see the best results.

10)Technology transforms the learning experience.

Students have access to an incredible amount of new opportunities. From learning how to code to learning how to better collaborate across teams and with their instructors--technology empowers students to be more creative and be more connected. New tech has super-charged how we learn today.

If your school is still debating how technology can benefit your students, teachers and administrators, I hate to break it to you, but the future of education is already here and you're missing an unbelievable amount of opportunities.

How to Support Technology in the Classroom

One of the biggest mistakes schools make when deploying or allowing new devices onto their campus and into their classrooms, is by not making sure their network infrastructure is up-to-date and/or sufficient enough to properly support their end-users.

We've seen numerous situations where schools have bought and deployed new tablets or new laptops, only to find that nothing worked because their Wi-Fi network couldn't support the new devices.

With tight budgets you can't afford to buy new devices and have them not work; you need to get it right the first time.

Having a secure WiFi network is what makes using new mobile devices possible. Yes, wireless is a specialized skill and yes they're not cheap, but they're also more attainable than you might think.

After engineering and deploying more than 1000+ wireless systems over the last 11 years, we've learned a lot about what should work and what actually does work.

A few of the main takeaways are:

Your WiFi system needs to always align with the devices that are connecting to it

Technical resources are expensive and hard to find

User expectations are higher than ever

Everything is constantly changing (devices, applications, how we use WiFi, device numbers, number users, even the physical environment)

What makes this especially challenging for schools is that WiFi networks today only have a useful shelf-life of between three to four years at the very best.

Knowing that traditionally, wireless networks cost a lot of money to design, deploy and manage, how do schools with almost no available budget get what they need?

Using network subscription software, your school can have the exact wireless system it needs to support any technology plan it wants to implement. Whether it's new tablets as part of a 1:1 program or BYOD, network subscriptions enables schools of any size to successfully embrace technology and the mobile devices their students want and need.

There are a variety of benefits, including:

Flexible payment options including 100% OPEX.

Scalability to grow with your needs up or down

Guarantees you always have the latest system in place

Allows you to prioritize your budget towards other mission-critical projects

Quick and easy all digital experience

Want to learn more? Check out our product page to find out what's included and how to get started today!

*Editor's note: This blog post was originally posted in September 2013 and has been completely revamped and updated for thoroughness and accuracy.

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