Technology & Curriculum Integration

The goal of technology integration is to use technology seamlessly so that the technology itself becomes a transparent and integral tool to teach core curriculum.

When computers and software are used so that students have new methods of learning curriculum, these tools can promote and enhance students’ understanding of content in powerful ways. They can find information, collaborate with others and use images and sound as well as text to communicate what they have learned.

At the heart of educators’ work is instilling a love of learning in students. Those who enjoy learning and who know how to keep learning will be prepared for a future in which nothing is certain and the norm is change.

The pursuit of knowledge has never been as exciting as it is today. Computers, the Internet, accessibility to hundreds of thousands of databases all over the world, and the ability to learn in a mobile environment allow us all to participate in a new paradigm of technology-enabled education.

New technologies enhance our ability to create new ideas, make discoveries, prove our theories, test our knowledge and realize our dreams like never before. School districts will need Intelligent, connected, devices and environments and adaptive, pervasive IT infrastructures.

With them, schools can:
•    Offer a choice of learning styles and formats
•    Support lifelong learning
•    Enable mobility for more flexible learning
•    Empower collaboration for research and sharing of best practices
•    Build for ongoing change
•    Support digital content and services
 

  • Articles

    Connecting Kids to the Arts

    Art Education is often left behind in the drive to increase the amount of time students spend on academics. As a result, special programs fill in the gap in many schools and districts. And more are needed. The Wallace Foundation sponsored a three-day gathering to discuss appreciation for the arts. Here’s the report that focuses on the future.

  • Tips for Better Digital Storytelling

    Digital storytelling has become an important strategy for educators to use to help students improve writing and thinking skills. Here are tips that will take the process one step farther so that teachers can help students make their stories the best that they can be.

  • Information Literacy

    Students get it about technology. The challenge for schools is in developing a new generation of knowledgeable digital citizens who can operate in the unregulated online world.

  • Hands-on Science for Global Learning

    This federally-sponsored program brings together students, teachers, scientists, and community members to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment.

  • Tools to Meet Environmental Challenges

    Global warming, pollution, shrinking animal and plant habitats, devastating earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones: the headlines and broadcasts warn of what appears to be a wholesale unraveling of the earth.

Teaching and Learning

Because living and working are so different now from even a decade or two ago and because things will continue to change, today’s students need new skills to survive and thrive in the future.

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Professional Development

For technology integration to be effective, educators need to learn how to use and integrate it successfully. The stages are planning, implementing, and maintaining a robust strategy.

Learn more about Professional Development.

Case Studies

What makes a difference in deciding on what technologies to use and how and when to use them is evidence that they work. Case studies that demonstrate effective use of technology and show results provide information about what could work for us.

Visit the Case Studies section.