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Thirty years ago educational software titles such as Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? became ubiquitous in classrooms throughout the United States. Schools rapidly adopted new computer-based technology as they figured out how to equip students with the ability to thrive in the burgeoning information age.

Today, with smartphones in every pocket and instant access to knowledge of virtually every kind, information technology is woven into every aspect of our children's lives. The objective is no longer to teach children how to use the technology, but how to use the technology to best teach children.

Thus, as classroom technology continues to evolve, so do the opportunities for more targeted, personalized learning.

Using tablets to personalize learning

According to a 2014 article in the Washington Post:

U.S. schools are expected to purchase 3.5 million tablets by the end of the year, according to industry analysts, giving students access to an array of modern educational opportunities that come with the technology. Worldwide, K-12 spending on tablets has increased 60 percent over last year.

For educators, this shift toward mobile devices isn't simply "keeping up with the times," it's taking capitalizing on new, exciting ways to personalize student learning. As we continue down this road, it's important to keep sight of the truth that technology should always serve the lesson content, personalizing and enriching student learning in previously impossible ways.

The most effective use of tablets in the classroom incorporates the following:

Apps that allow each student to self-guide and self-pace through a unit

Collaboration with other schools and with government/business entities

Activities and projects that serve a purpose beyond the grade (e.g., secondary students create digital learning materials for use in tutoring younger students; first graders film their persuasive presentations and send them to the manager of Petco to convince him or her to donate a pet for their class)

Apps that demonstrably improve achievement, especially that of low-SES students

Watch effective tablet use in the classroom

In this Edivate video segment, Mr. James Tomasello's 4th grade Pinehurst Elementary students work at their own pace by using tablets to submit their work, receive feedback, take assessments, access additional lesson resources, and move on to the next challenge.

This content comes with a study guide featuring additional information, reflection questions, and links to more resources about implementing new technology in the classroom.

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Educational technology is a study and ethical practice for facilitating learning and improving performance. Technology in education is just an additional opportunity to achieve education, if you haven't enough time or opportunities to do it another way.

It can be defined as the use of different types of technologies in the learning experience which can result in the positive changes of pedagogy and teaching methods all over the world. Everyone can see the benefits that educational technology , and here are some of those mentioned below:

Access to information

Many years ago we couldn't imagine that we can get to know new information without going out of the house. Mothers examined new recipes from the book that they borrow in the libraries. Fathers bought newspapers to learn the updated information from business, economy and society. Students all evenings spent in the libraries to write the report, project or academic paper. Today information is easily accessed thanks to the . Meanwhile, online courses are accessible to the students who are unable to attend traditional educational buildings because of health or other complications. It is a convenient way to study.

Help in protecting the environment

There are thousands of schools in every country. And it is a compulsory institution in every distant village. Now could you imagine how billions of paper we use to publish new books and copybooks. Due to technology in education, we are not to buy all these books. Actually, there now schools that were switched to the use designing computers for their lessons and libraries. It saves money and time when used thoughtfully.

Increase the popularity of distance learning

With development of such inventions like the internet, the popularity with educational technology is growing every day. Nowadays it is one of the most preferred methods of learning. Traditional lessons have been supplemented by virtual ones. Online classes include transferring files, chat rooms and even board of progress to follow the students' success. Another benefit is that students can maintain a flexible schedule that is convenient for them (anytime, anywhere learning). It helps to combine distance education and work.

Easiness in teaching

There are various ways of improving teaching efficiency with technology in education. Thanks to the technology they have more than one way to keep an eye on the student's progress. Moreover audio-visual presentation, wide-screen televisions, projectors can be used for improving the delivery of instruction to actually improve learning and increasing the comprehension level among the students.

Technology makes education enjoyable

We all know how difficult to engage the children in learning. However they enjoy the process when the instructor uses white board or touch screen technology in order to make classes more interactive and interesting. In that way it's easy to attract the kid's attention. By the way, the involving technology in the educational process makes education more enjoyable both for the instructors and the learners.

We shouldn't underestimate the possibilities of educational technology in our modern society. Nowadays virtual classes are preferred by people all over the world. This form of education is really enjoyed by children, and many students have recently graduated from virtual High Schools.

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Overview

The Master of Arts in Education: Educational Technology program prepares teachers, technology coordinators, and software developers to implement current technology tools in education, and to evaluate future technologies as they emerge. This program targets middle and high school teachers but often includes students from elementary schools, higher education, and industry as well.

Program features:

Current theory and best practice in technology education

Classes taken as a cohort of teachers

Two-year program; generally one night per week

Guaranteed enrollment in cohort classes

Courses that support technology skill development and teaching methodology.

The diversity of the EdTechMA students adds more perspective to our discussions and expands all of our knowledge about the different applications of educational technology. Our graduates have gone on to teach and support education at universities and schools all over the world while others continued on for their doctorate.

The cohorted program comprises 10 courses (30 units): 8 program courses and 2 electives. Classes meet from 4:00 - 6:45 pm and 7:00 - 9:45 pm every Wednesday for four semesters. The next cohort will run from Fall 2017 to Spring 2019.

Course of Study

The program comprises 10 courses (30 units): 8 program courses and 2 electives. Program classes meet from 4:00 - 6:45 pm and 7:00 - 9:45 pm every Wednesday for four semesters. The two elective courses are normally taken during the two-year program; some students may be able to substitute courses taken prior to this program (e.g., in a recent CSUN teaching-credential program) for these two electives. All courses utilize the latest tech tools (e.g. Moodle, Adobe Contribute, Google Apps for Education). All students complete a master's portfolio that includes a significant original project (thesis-like).

Fall of First Year

S ED 619 Education and the Internet

S ED 618 Educational Multimedia

Spring of First Year

S ED 600 Research in Secondary Education

S ED 695G Special Topics in Educational Technology

Fall of Second Year

S ED 690 Seminar on Technology in Secondary Education

S ED 671 Developing Educational Software

Spring of Second Year

SED 610 Issues in Multiethnic Secondary Schools (focus on leadership in Ed Technology)

SED 697 Directed Comprehensive Studies: Portfolio Preparation and Presentation

Two Required Elective Courses (6 units)

For program completion, six (6) units of credential program, transfer, or other qualified coursework are needed. If you completed your credential program at CSUN within the past five (5) years, you may be able to apply two of your credential courses to meet this requirement. Graduate courses or post-baccalaureate credential courses from other institutions may also be eligible substitutions for these electives.

Coursework at the time of graduation cannot be more than seven (7) years old. Candidates in the program without these units, in consultation with the program directors, may enroll in an Independent Study or other appropriate coursework during the summer or regular semesters.

Additional Requirements

Prior to the completion of 12 units of the program, a score at or above the 50th percentile of at least one section of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is required for those with an undergraduate GPA below 3.0. If the undergraduate GPA is below 2.5, admission cannot be guaranteed and will be handled on a case-by-case basis. If the undergraduate GPA is 3.0 or higher, the GRE requirement is waived. Also prior to the completion of 12 units of the program, a passing score (8) is required on the Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam at another university. (Many candidates will have completed the UDWPE requirement as undergraduates at another CSU.) Please save all copies of university correspondence.

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The Educational Technology program prepares learning design and technology professionals to design, develop, and evaluate learning structures in a variety of formal and informal educational settings including business and industry. The Master of Education program in educational technology emphasizes grounded instructional strategies rooted in established theories of learning, design and development of competency-based instructional materials, and application and evaluation in applied settings. Through projects that provide opportunities to take on authentic, real-world challenges, students apply current research and learning theories to the practice of learning and instructional design, together with the use of emerging technologies.

Award-winning, fastest rising top-tier college of education in the country:

In 2017, U.S. News & World Report ranked the graduate education program 14th in the country

Mary Lou Fulton undergraduate students have a 92.5% employability after graduation

In the 2018 U.S. News & World Report rankings, Mary Lou Fulton Teacher's College placed 11th among the best graduate colleges of education, public and private, in the nation - #4 college among public universities

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We all love reading quotes. Benefits are more than just getting that dose of inspiration and hope. Read out the list below of technology in education quotes to know it yourself.

1) "Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important." - Bill Gates

2) "There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails." - Nancy Kassebaum

3) "Any teacher that can be replaced with a computer, deserves to be." - David Thornburg

4) "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event." - Heidi-Hayes Jacobs

5) "It is not about the technology; it's about sharing knowledge and information, communicating efficiently, building learning communities and creating a culture of professionalism in schools. These are the key responsibilities of all educational leaders." - Marion Ginapolis

6) "Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school. Period." - April Chamberlain

7) "We need to embrace technology to make learning more engaging. Because when students are engaged and they are interested, that's where learning takes place."

8) "We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world." - David Warlick

9) "When we talk about 21st century pedagogy, we have to consider many things-the objectives of education, the curriculum, how assessment strategies work, the kind of technology infrastructure involved, and how leadership and policy facilitate attaining education goals." - Chris Dede, Harvard University

10) 21st Century Education won't be defined by any new technology. It won't be just defined by 1:1 technology programs or tech-intensive projects. 21st Century Education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching - a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers. - Karl Fisch

11) "Integrating technology with face-to-face teacher time generally produces better academic outcomes than employing either technique alone." - Edutopia

12) "Yes, kids love technology, but they also love legos, scented markers, handstands, books and mud puddles. It's all about balance."

13) "Technology can become the "wings" that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before-if we will allow it." - Jenny Arledge

14) Teachers need to stop saying, "Hand it in," and start saying "Publish It." Alan November

15) "The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative." - Tanya Byron

16) "It is important to remember that educational software, like textbooks, is only one tool in the learning process. Neither can be a substitute for well-trained teachers, leadership, and parental involvement." - Keith Krueger

17) "ICT is not the future of our chidren's education, it is the present and we need to make investment in ICT now!" - National Association of Advisors for Computer in Education

18) The real power of interactive technologies is that they let us learn in ways that aren't otherwise possible or practical. - David Lassner

19) "The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer: Rather, the students of tomorrow need to be able to think creatively: they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges and innovate on-the-fly." - Anthony Chivetta, high school student in Missouri

20) "Learners in the internet age don't need more information. They need to know how to efficiently use the massive amount of information available at their fingertips - to determine what's credible, what's relevant, and when its useful to reference." - Anna Sabramowicz

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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.
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Gone are the days when the success of technology integration in classrooms was measured by whether or not every student had access to a device. Simply making hardware available so that students can access software that merely displays digitized versions of formerly print content-- such as PDF versions of worksheets-- used to be considered edtech innovation, but it wasn't creative or novel. Rather, technology that gives teachers the ability to improve teaching and learning in ways that wouldn't be possible without technology is what makes edtech innovative.

One of the ways technology can innovate in education is through changing the way that teachers use student performance data. However, not all student data is helpful to teachers. In a recent survey by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Teachers Know Best , teachers reported that most student data that is available is not useful to them. This is because most of the data provides "rear-view mirror" information about students' performance on summative assessments that the students completed long ago, which provide information about the effectiveness of teachers' former lessons but doesn't serve teachers in their current lessons. What teachers instead need is real-time, formative data during the lessons themselves that provides relevant and meaningful feedback about student learning. Such data would enable teachers to tweak their instructional approaches while they are teaching a lesson.

Adaptive learning technology makes this kind of dynamic data available to teachers, but most adaptive learning technologies that are currently on the market are not designed for this purpose. These technologies adapt the pace at which students move through static content such as lectures and readings based on whether a student has correctly answered the assessment items. Such technologies don't attempt to diagnose why a student is stuck on a problem or to analyze the specific moves a student makes in his or her attempt to solve it. In this way, they can be thought of as adaptive assessment platforms rather than adaptive learning platforms. While they may be able to approximate what a student knows about a topic, content does not get more difficult when a student is progressing well and slow down if a student needs further instructional support.

A specific type of adaptive learning technology, intelligent adaptive learning technology, is able to assess what students know and seeks to offer what they need to achieve content mastery. This technology "learns the learner" as the learner engages with it, which enables nuanced, personalized and relevant data collection and reporting that gives teachers insight into how the learner is solving problems and thinking. In addition to tracking achievement, the technology identifies trends in student motivation and engagement so that teachers can optimize learning efficiency, learning tenacity and ultimately learning outcomes. While students are working through lessons, the technology analyzes every click, hesitation and answer in order to direct students based on what they need in the moment to ensure deep understanding of key concepts, develop fluency with important skills, and cultivate critical thinking.

The results of intelligent adaptive learning technology use in classrooms are promising. Harvard University's Personalized Learning Collaborative at the Center for Education Policy Research found that adaptive learning technology (specifically DreamBox Learning's Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ math curriculum ) can lead to gains in mathematics achievement. According to the study, students who used DreamBox Learning's math program for an average of seven hours witnessed a two percentile point gain on the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) MAP assessment when compared to similar students who did not use the software at all. Moreover, students who spent more time on the DreamBox Learning software saw larger gains in achievement.

The noted benefits and future possibilities of intelligent adaptive learning technology have encouraged dozens of companies to produce adaptive learning technology that addresses student learning needs in different ways. allows teachers to prepare and assign differentiated adaptive lessons. Teachers can assign individual students or groups of students different lessons based on varying learning needs, and the technology adapts as the students move through the lessons. Smart Sparrow 's adaptive e-learning platform offers adaptive and interactive quizzes and simulations. A study in a mechanics course at the University of New South Wales found that use of Smart Sparrow technology platform reduced student failure rates from 31% to 7%. It is clear that advances in intelligent adaptive learning technology are changing the way we teach and analyze learning in the e-learning space.

Intelligent adaptive learning platforms make it possible to collect evidence of student thinking and learning in ways that are impossible with paper and pencil. By arming educators with rich, timely information about student growth and performance, future developments in intelligent adaptive learning platforms will likely encourage educators to re-imagine their instructional practices, resulting in increased classroom innovation and improved student outcomes.

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Is there anything more exciting today in schools than the marriage of technology and pedagogy? Educators are finding new ways to connect with students, using students' individual needs and wants to guide their instruction. A deeper connection forms between teacher and student when technology is used to enhance their relationship.

" The NMC/CoSN Horizon Report: 2016 K-12 Edition," which reveals emerging technology trends in education over the next five years, recently was released. In it, we see which technologies may be used to advance personalized learning for millions of students across the globe, including virtual reality, robotics, makerspaces, online instruction and wearable tech.

Most important, two long-term trends were identified in the report, which was jointly conducted by the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking. Schools are redesigning their classroom spaces for more hands-on learning and incorporating technology education to prepare the next generation to become part of a technology-based workforce.

Wide Open Spaces Make Room for Collaboration

For learners today, movement and creativity in education are paramount. Mobile technology frees students from the old model in which a teacher lectures from the front of a classroom that is laid out in rows of desks. Instead, teachers have become coaches and guides in today's modern pedagogy, which includes blended learning, project-based learning and small-group instruction. This collaborative model fosters teamwork and cooperation, and the layout of the classroom enhances that experience.

Students are more engaged and perform better when school furniture and technology transform to create a more collaborative environment. Classroom designs have been shown to cultivate deeper and more student-centered learning encounters that are more flexible, active, mobile and fun. These spaces, bolstered by technology, continue to prepare students for the real world and workforce. We need to leverage available and future technologies to promote active learning.

Looking to the Future of Technology

In the short term, the Horizon Report identified coding as an emerging literacy trend that deserves our attention.

"As the number of computer science jobs are expected to proliferate in the next five years, there is a need for students to learn coding and programming skills, which have proven to bolster problem-solving, creativity and critical thinking skills," the report states.

Similarly, advancements in technology can further drive the innovative ways in which we teach our kids. Makerspaces and online learning are hot right now, with robotics and virtual reality expected to be widely adopted within two to three years. Artificial intelligence and wearable technology will be considered mainstream within four to five years, according to the report.

Of course, no school year is without its challenges. Many districts, especially in rural areas, face the weighty issue of digital equity. Students who now have access to broadband services in schools thanks to the expansion of the E-Rate program, still have to face the prospect of completing digital homework with limited or no internet access at home.

"Even in the face of increasingly advanced technologies and quality learning materials, not every demographic has the same level of access, and learning outcomes are still unequal throughout the world," the report states.
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The teaching strategies based on educational technology can be described as ethical practices that facilitate the students' learning and boost their capacity, productivity, and performance. Technology integration in education inspires positive changes in teaching methods on an international level. Are you still wondering whether or not you should start relying on different apps and tools? The following list of benefits will help you come to a final conclusion.

1. Technology makes teaching easy!

Aren't you tired of giving theoretical explanations your students cannot understand? You simply cannot discover a way of presenting tough concepts that makes the concept clear for each and every student in the class. Technology has that power! Thanks to audio-visual presentations, your students will understand exactly how the knowledge is applied in practice. You can use projectors and computer presentations to deliver any type of lesson or instruction and improve the level of comprehension within the class.

2. Technology helps you track students' progress!

You are no longer limited to a plain-old diary and notes about every student. That would only get you confused. Today, you can rely on platforms and tools that enable you to keep track of the individual achievements of your students. MyStudentsProgress and theTeacherCloud Progress Tracker are great online tools that enable you to do that, but your school can also develop personalized software that would serve that purpose.

3. Educational technology is good to the environment!

Can you imagine the amount of paper and number of trees that would be saved if every school decided to introduce digital textbooks? Of course, that goal is far from realistic at this point, but you can make a change when you start from your own class. For example, you can instruct your students to take online tests and submit their papers and homework through email. You can also encourage them to use eReaders to go through the literature you assign.

4. Thanks to technology, students enjoy learning!

Students are addicted to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Digg, and other websites from a very early age. The internet can distract them from the learning process, but you can also use their inclination to spend time online for a good purpose: Making learning enjoyable. Use touch-screen technology and online presentations to make the classes more interactive. You can also rely on technology when you want your students to take part in discussions. Set up a private Facebook group for your class and inspire constructive conversations!

5. Technology makes distance learning more accessible than ever!

Without the wonders of the internet, people wouldn't be able to get access to any type of information at the very moment they think of it. Today, distance learning is one of the most trending learning methods. Virtual lessons are slowly taking the place of traditional lectures. Students can organize their time in a way that works for them, and they can easily gain the knowledge they are interested in. For example, let's say one of your students shows great interest in Astronomy, but the traditional curriculum does nothing to feed that hunger for knowledge. You can recommend him/her to take beginner's course at Coursera, Udemy, or any other online service that offers high-quality virtual lectures.

6. Students and teachers can access information at any time!

This is possibly the most obvious benefit of technology. When old-school teachers were students, they had to spend hours in the library looking for the information they needed. Today, technology integration makes everything different and simpler. Students can easily access newspapers, scientific articles, studies, and any other type of content online. They can write better, deeper academic papers because they can support their arguments with more evidence. When you give a lecture the students don't understand, they can find simpler instructions and information with a single Google search.

7. Technology makes collaboration more effective!

Think about the way collaboration looks like in a traditional classroom setting. You organize groups, assign the projects, and suddenly the class becomes a complete mess. Some students express their opinions too loudly and firmly, while others don't get an opportunity to be heard. Online tools and apps offer a unique setting for students to engage in a group project. They can do the work from home; the team is connected through the Internet and everyone is inspired by the focused environment.

Don't Underestimate The Power Of Technology

You stand no chance of being called "the cool teacher" if you keep neglecting the use of educational technology in the classroom. The benefits of technology integration described above should convince you of the fact that this form education is great for both students and teachers.

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The teaching strategies based on educational technology can be described as ethical practices that facilitate the students' learning and boost their capacity, productivity, and performance. Technology integration in education inspires positive changes in teaching methods on an international level. Are you still wondering whether or not you should start relying on different apps and tools?

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Don Knezek, the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, compares education without technology to the medical profession without technology.

"If in 1970 you had knee surgery, you got a huge scar," he says. "Now, if you have knee surgery you have two little dots."

Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways. Its role in schools has evolved from a contained "computer class" into a versatile learning tool that could change how we demonstrate concepts, assign projects and assess progress.

Despite these opportunities, adoption of technology by schools is still anything but ubiquitous. Knezek says that U.S. schools are still asking if they should incorporate more technology, while other countries are asking how. But in the following eight areas, technology has shown its potential for improving education.

1. Better Simulations and Models

While a tuning fork is a perfectly acceptable way to demonstrate how vibrations make sound, it's harder to show students what evolution is, how molecules behave in different situations, or exactly why mixing two particular chemicals is dangerous.

Digital simulations and models can help teachers explain concepts that are too big or too small, or processes that happen too quickly or too slowly to demonstrate in a physical classroom.

The Concord Consortium, a non-profit organization that develops technologies for math, science and engineering education, has been a leader in developing free, open source software that teachers can use to model concepts. One of their most extensive projects is the Molecular Workbench, which provides science teachers with simulations on topics like gas laws, fluid mechanics and chemical bonding. Teachers who are trained in the system can create activities with text, models and interactive controls. One participant referred to the project as "[Microsoft] Word for molecules."

Other simulations the organization is developing include a software that allows students to experiment with virtual greenhouses in order to understand evolution, a software that helps students understand the physics of energy efficiency by designing a model house, and simulations of how electrons interact with matter.

2. Global Learning

At sites like Glovico.org, students can set up language lessons with a native speaker who lives in another country and attend the lessons via videoconferencing. Learning from a native speaker, learning through social interaction, and being exposed to another culture's perspective are all incredible educational advantages that were once only available to those who could foot a travel bill. Now, setting up a language exchange is as easy as making a videoconferencing call.

3. Virtual Manipulatives

Let's say you're learning about the relationship between fractions, percents and decimals. Your teacher could have you draw graphs or do a series of problems that changes just one variable in the same equation. Or he could give you a "virtual manipulative" like the one above and let you experiment with equations to reach an understanding of the relationship. The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, run by a team at Utah State University, has been building its database of these tools since 1999.

"You used to count blocks or beads," says Lynne Schrum, who has written three books on the topic of schools and technology. "Manipulating those are a little bit more difficult. Now there are virtual manipulative sites where students can play with the idea of numbers and what numbers mean, and if I change values and I move things around, what happens."

4. Probes and Sensors

About 15 years ago, the founders of the Concord Consortium took the auto focus sensor from a Polaroid camera and hooked it up to a computer graph program, thereby creating the ability to graph motion in real time. Today there are classrooms all over the world that use ultrasonic motion detectors to demonstrate concepts.

"I've taught physics before, and you spend a lot of time getting these ideas of position, and what is velocity, and what does motion really mean and how do you define it," says Chad Dorsey, the president and CEO of the Concord Consortium. "And you end up spending a lot of time doing these things and trying to translate them into graphs. You could spend a whole period creating a graph for an experiment that you did, and it loses a lot of meaning in that process. By hooking up this ultrasonic motion detector to a graph right away...it gives you a specific real-time feel for what it means to move at faster rates or slower rates or increasing in speed or decreasing in speed and a much more foundational understanding of the topic than you could ever get by just drawing the graph by hand."

Collecting real-time data through probes and sensors has a wide range of educational applications. Students can compute dew point with a temperature sensor, test pH with a pH probe, observe the effect of pH on an MnO3 reduction with a light probe, or note the chemical changes in photosynthesis using pH and nitrate sensors.

5. More Efficient Assessment

Models and simulations, beyond being a powerful tool for teaching concepts, can also give teachers a much richer picture of how students understand them.

"You can ask students questions, and multiple choice questions do a good job of assessing how well students have picked up vocabulary," Dorsey explains. "But the fact that you can describe the definition [of] a chromosome ... doesn't mean that you understand genetics any better ... it might mean that you know how to learn a definition. But how do we understand how well you know a concept?"

In Geniverse, a program the Concord Consortium developed to help students understand genetics by "breeding" dragons, teachers can give students a problem that is much more like a performance assessment. The students are asked to create a specific dragon. Teachers can see what each student did to reach his or her end result and thereby understand whether trial-and-error or actual knowledge of genetics leads to a correct answer.

The organization is also developing a program that will help teachers collect real-time assessment data from their students. When the teacher gives out an assignment, she can watch how far along students are, how much time each a spends on each question, and whether their answers are correct. With this information, she can decide what concepts students are struggling with and can pull up examples of students' work on a projector for discussion.

"What they would have done in the past is students would make a lab report, they'd turn it in, the teacher would take a couple of days to grade it, they'd get it back a couple of days later, and two to three days later they'd talk about it," Dorsey says. "But they've probably done a couple of lessons in between then, [and] they haven't had time to guide the students immediately as they learned it."

6. Storytelling and Multimedia

Knezek recently saw a video that was produced by a group of elementary students about Bernoulli's Principle. In the video, the students demonstrated the principle that makes flight possible by taking two candles and putting them close together, showing that blowing between them brings the flames closer together. For another example, they hung ping pong balls from the ceiling and they pulled together.

"With a simple assignment and access to technology, researching and also producing a product that would communicate, they were able to do deep learning on a concept that wasn't even addressed in their textbook, and allow other people to view it and learn from it," Knezek says.

Asking children to learn through multimedia projects is not only an excellent form of project-based learning that teaches teamwork, but it's also a good way to motivate students who are excited to create something that their peers will see. In addition, it makes sense to incorporate a component of technology that has become so integral to the world outside of the classroom.

"It's no longer the verbal logic or the spoken or written word that causes people to make decisions," Knezek says. "Where you go on vacations, who you vote for, what kind of car you buy, all of those things are done now with multimedia that engage all of the senses and cause responses."

7. E-books

Despite students' apparent preference for paper textbooks, proponents like Daytona College and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are ready to switch to digital. And electronic textbook vendors like CourseSmart are launching to help them.

E-books hold an unimaginable potential for innovating education, though as some schools have already discovered, not all of that potential has been realized yet.

"A digital textbook that is merely a PDF on a tablet that students can carry around might be missing out on huge possibilities like models and simulations or visualizations," Dorsey says. "It takes time and it really takes some real thought to develop those things, and so it would be easy for us as a society to miss out on those kinds of opportunities by saying, 'Hey look, we're not carrying around five textbooks anymore. It's all on your iPad, isn't that great?'"

8. Epistemic Games

Epistemic games put students in roles like city planner, journalist, or engineer and ask them to solve real-world problems. The Epistemic Games Group has provided several examples of how immersing students in the adult world through commercial game-like simulations can help students learn important concepts.

In one game, students are cast as high-powered negotiators who need to decide the fate of a real medical controversy. In another, they must become graphical artists in order to create an exhibit of mathematical art in the style of M.C. Escher. Urban Science, the game featured in the above video, assigns students the task of redesigning Madison, Wisconsin.

"Creative professionals learn innovative thinking through training that is very different from traditional academic classrooms because innovative thinking means more than just knowing the right answers on a test," explains The Epistemic Games Group's website. "It also means having real-world skills, high standards and professional values, and a particular way of thinking about problems and justifying solutions. Epistemic games are about learning these fundamental ways of thinking for the digital age."

These eight technologies are redefining education. Which technologies would you add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.
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About the National Educational Technology Plan

The U.S. Department of Education released the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP): A Call to Action for Closing the Digital Access, Design and Use Divides. First released in fulfillment of Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, NETP has been updated multiple times since its original release, most recently in 2016. While past NETPs have largely served as surveys of the state of the field, the Department of Education's 2024 NETP frames three key divides limiting the transformational potential of educational technology to support teaching and learning, including:

The Digital Use Divide, addressing opportunities to improve how students use technology to enhance their learning, including dynamic applications of technology to explore, create, and engage in critical analysis of academic content and knowledge;

The Digital Design Divide, addressing opportunities for educators to expand their professional learning and build the capacities necessary to design learning experiences enabled by technology; and

The Digital Access Divide, addressing opportunities for students and educators to gain equitable access to educational technology, including connectivity, devices, and digital content. This also includes accessibility and digital health, safety, and citizenship as key elements of digital access.

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