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This Padlet will teach students about Chemical Reactions

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Background on Classroom Technology

Today's society has become more and more reliant on technology. It is used in almost all facets of life; it is integrated into most college coursework and is required for many types of employment. Today's students need strong computing skills in order to compete in the global economy, which has pushed the United States towards integrating guidelines to ensure that graduates are ready to compete in the 21st century.

While it can't be argued that today's students need strong computing skills, integrating technology into the classroom is more than teaching basic computing skills. Technology can provide a richer, interactive learning experience and environment. There are many different ways teachers can use technology in their classrooms, and each method provides several different benefits for students.

Collaborative Learning Skills

Today's Web 2.0 technologies provide many opportunities for today's learner. Web 2.0 technologies, often referred to as social media, are dynamic web tools that allow users to author, change, edit, and manipulate content. Examples of Web 2.0 technologies include YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and many more. Today's learners use Web 2.0 technologies on a regular basis, so using these tools in the classroom is a way to meet learners where they are and teach in a language they are comfortable with.

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benefits of technology in the classroom - video & lesson transcript | study.com

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Today's society has become more and more reliant on technology. It is used in almost all facets of life; it is integrated into most college coursework and is required for many types of employment.

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The importance of integrating technology effectively in the classroom

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This is the Pedagogy Wheel and it has a list of ways to pick apps!

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Great website to have fun and learn a lot!

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Top Apps Recommended for Integrating Technology

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Luhtala has also noticed some app fatigue among her colleagues. If they are using something that works well, they'll probably stick with it, even if another slightly better product comes along. Learning is hard and change is even harder, so once teachers have found a tool that meets their learning goals, they are unlikely to shift without a good reason.

"It's hard to get the teachers on board with this at all, so to say we're going to do it differently next year is a tough sell," Luhtala said.

The list of apps that educators favor this year shares some commonalities with last year's favorites. Teachers tend to drop apps if they become too expensive or sometimes if the updates are so overwhelming that they no longer know how to use the product. Luhtala explained it's a delicate balance: "If it doesn't feel different than it did a year ago, that's alarming. It should feel the same, but better."

The repeat apps that have made it to this favorite list added functionality without doing so too quickly. They also tend to target younger students -- high school students mostly use their phones for personal computing and their laptops for school. The emphasis in the higher grades is still on reading and typing -- teachers give students fewer opportunities to express their learning in creative ways, so the tools of choice tend to be basic. High school kids use Google Apps because they can easily collaborate.
APPS TO ACQUIRE INFORMATION APPS THAT HELP MAKE MEANING
The apps in this section help organize or share information that students or teachers have already found. "This is when we start shifting the knowledge around and owning it," Luhtala said. "It's not just ingesting knowledge, it's manipulating it."

Evernote and Notability: Both these apps are often mentioned. Evernote is free and cross-platform, but tends to compartmentalize. Notability has a charge associated with it ($1.99 per download) and is only for iPads. However, that allows it to integrate elements of Apple apps into the experience. Luhtala's sophomore students experimented with both apps and liked Notability better for school work. Luhtala believes the apps could have separate purposes, and users don't have to choose one or the other.

ClassDojo: This tool is a fun and easy way to keep track of student behavior, allowing teachers to take attendance quickly and give positive or negative reinforcement, depending on a child's actions that day. Each student gets a critter and some teachers find it very effective. It works on iPhones and iPads, as well as Android phones and the Web. It is free.
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER APPS
"Kids have ingested information, they've found ways to manipulate the information, and now they are ready to create something," Luhtala said.

Adobe Slate: While similar to its competitor Microsoft Sway, some educators reported this presentation tool to be more engaging. "When I did this webinar a year ago, I didn't feel there was a presentation tool that worked for me," Luhtala said. "Now there are." Adobe Slate works on iPads and is free. Microsoft Sway is free and Web-based.

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Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps | KQED

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Luhtala has also noticed some app fatigue among her colleagues. If they are using something that works well, they'll probably stick with it, even if another slightly better product comes along. Learning is hard and change is even harder, so once teachers have found a tool that meets their learning goals, they are unlikely to shift without a good reason.

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This assignment allows students to use Inspiration to complete their assignment

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This is our classroom Acceptable Use Policy

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Why Integrating Technology in the Classroom is important

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Integrating Technology In The Classroom To Better Connect Parents, Teachers, And Students

While student learning often happens in the classrooms, education requires a support structure that goes far beyond school walls. An extensive set of systems -from administrative to experiential- work together to help every child learn.

While these systems should work together in seamless coordination, education technology too often contributes to their fracturing. Tech tools often present essential functions across multiple platforms - muddying the picture of student success and isolating students from teachers and administrators from parents. Teachers, parents, administrators, and students who share a commitment to education deserve equally unified technological solutions.

Education technology has long sought to solve the myriad and dynamic challenges that persist in the classroom. How do we give teachers back time to spend with their students? How do we include parents in their child's education? How do we put data to work improving outcomes? How do we give administrators, teachers, parents, and students access to the same, comprehensive, real-time information on the student's progress?

Integrating Technology In The Classroom: An Example

Technology cannot solve every challenge in education, but smart technological solutions improve communications, strengthen collaboration, and deliver results. At the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio last week, I had an opportunity to see a number of new products and solutions that were launched that show a tremendous amount of potential to help answer a lot of questions around integrating more technology in and outside of the classroom to deliver better outcomes for administrators, teachers, parents, and students.

One example is PowerSchool's re-released Unified Classroom platform which provides a comprehensive package that gives educators a bird's eye view of their students and helps develop personalized learning experiences. With up-to-the-minute feedback teachers and parents can together identify problems and opportunities in a child's education. While the technological platform itself is important, so too are the analytical insights it makes possible.

The 2017 summer release of PowerSchool's Unified Classroom includes 6 major updates that users should be aware of:

1. New unified user experience designed in collaboration with educators that provides a unified calendar, notifications, events, notes, centralized actions, search, and reporting.

2. New 360-degree view of students progress enabling teachers and parents to track all aspects of a student's behavior, attendance, assignments, digital content usage, grades, discussions, wikiprojects, e-portfolio, and progress throughout their educational career.

3. New unified learning and assessment platform for personalized instruction that empower teachers and administrators to implement best practice instructional strategies.

4. New early warning and student progress analytics to provide real-time visibility into student performance to identify where they may be struggling based on attendance, student engagement, grades, and standard progress.

5. New student and parent portal with activity feed to drive increased engagement connecting the home to the classroom.

6. New platform support to securely integrate with other classroom tools: Increase security with a new embedded identity management system to help teachers securely integrate centralized account management.

Improvements in data collection and analysis can now offer a fuller picture of students' academic records and performance.

Teachers have long relied on their own observations and intuition to track student performance. However, with so many competing priorities, educators (and parents) can benefit from technologies that provide analysis and spot patterns in performance. Making this kind of data available enables a smart approach to personalized learning that can truly maximize a student's potential.

Teachers remain the center of high-quality education, and communication resulting in meaningful engagement with students is essential.

Tools that centralize information in an easy to use platform help teachers marry the kind of focus on individuals that is integral to personal development with data-based strategies that improve academic performance. As a result, teachers are able to cater their lessons and approaches to the unique needs of their students.
When a student needs academic intervention, the best time to identify the problem is now.
By integrating technology in the classroom, teachers and parents can track students' academic performance as it happens, and draw upon data from a student's entire academic career. When a student is encountering the same problem this year with trigonometry that was experienced last year with geometry, teachers and parents should register that pattern. This is the way we apply the tools of the information age to education.

Integrating technology in the classroom will allow our school system to utilize the framework of personalized learning on a massive scale.

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Why Integrating Technology In The Classroom Can Better Connect Parents, Teachers, And Students - eLearning Industry

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While student learning often happens in the classrooms, education requires a support structure that goes far beyond school walls. An extensive set of systems -from administrative to experiential- work together to help every child learn. While these systems should work together in seamless coordination, education technology too often contributes to their fracturing.

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Think that integrating technology into the classroom will only distract students and marginalize educators?

Think again. Since students are already interested and engaged in technology, teachers can harness that attention for educational purposes. Incorporating the internet, laptops, tablets and even smartphones into the curriculum has many benefits for teachers and students alike.

1. Engages students and creates active learners.

Using a computer, tablet, or other device encourages self-directed learning and creates an active participant in the learning process, rather than the passive learners found in a lecture environment. Interactive lesson plans can help turn "boring" conceptual subjects like math and science into fun, engaging, and educational activities for students.

2. Encourages individual learning and growth.

No one learns in the same way or at the same pace, but technology can level-set the classroom. For example, technology can provide accommodations for struggling or disabled students, and virtual lesson plans provide individualized instruction for all. Students can learn at their own speed, reviewing difficult concepts or skipping ahead as needed. Additionally, access to the internet gives students access to a broad range of resources to conduct research.
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3. Facilitates peer collaboration.

In a research project conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, many educators reported that technology facilitated peer collaboration. They noted that when students were assigned to small groups for technology-based projects, those students who already had certain computer and technology skills routinely assisted less skilled students. Peer tutoring, mentoring, and collaboration were the unexpected results of the technology integration.

4. Prepares students for the real world.

Technology is an integral part of how we work and live, every day. Teaching students how to use technology to learn, research, collaborate, and solve problems from an early age will better prepare them for their careers. It can also help reduce the fear of new technology in the future by familiarizing them with the discovery process for each new tool.

5. Creates more engaged and successful teachers.

Using technologies like virtual lesson plans and internet resources can help free up time - both in developing and delivering the curriculum. This allows teachers to spend more time with the students who are struggling, ensuring the whole class is better prepared for tests and advancement.

As an educator, integrating technology into the curriculum is key. In other words, don't just add a piece of technology to a lesson plan just because you can. Make sure you understand:

How to use the technology

How to train students on using the technology

How the technology supports your curriculum

What benefits the technology brings to your lesson

An easy way to introduce technology is to start small. Try using a document camera to project textbook images on a screen, or introduce a website a week that corresponds with your lesson plan.

The point is not to let technology take over your classroom, but to integrate it. Traditional teaching processes like lectures, writing papers, and analog testing should not be abandoned. When combined effectively with the methods you're used to, technology can help you and help your students.
Capella University offers over 20 free professional development courses focused on educational technology, with options in three proficiency levels: limited technology experience, moderate experience, or teacher leaders/PD professionals.

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5 Reasons to Incorporate Technology into Your Classroom

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Think that integrating technology into the classroom will only distract students and marginalize educators? Think again. Since students are already interested and engaged in technology, teachers can harness that attention for educational purposes. Incorporating the internet, laptops, tablets and even smartphones into the curriculum has many benefits for teachers and students alike.

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