Professional Development


For technology integration to be effective, educators need to learn how to use and integrate it successfully. Professional development is critical to an effective technology initiative
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  • Education News February 2012

    This month’s news items include information from California and New Jersey and tracking data and AYP.

  • Twitter for Professional Development: Ultra Beginner Edition, Part 1

    Here’s some basic information about using Twitter to share with teachers.

  • Out-of-School School

    Can the academic achievement gap be closed by academic work with selected students who show potential? Can traditional schools learn from this?

  • Book Talk: The Technology Toolbelt for Teachers: A Useful Resource

    This book examines how teachers might use technology tools to address instructional problems.

  • Zero to Eight

    How much time do very young children spend with TV and other media platforms such as computers, video games, and smartphones? What is an app gap?

  • Eight Tools for Charter Schools

    Good tools can be effective in bringing about reform. Charter schools and district schools can both benefit from organizational tools.

  • 9 Web 2.0 Sites to Publish Student Work

    Publishing content online in eye-catching formats is easier than ever. Use these easy-to-use tools to publish, share and celebrate student work.

  • Time Well Spent

    Despite many efforts the achievement gap is growing for students at risk. Would extending the school day in creative ways improve achievement?

  • Using Technology

    How do we bring innovative learning, personalized learning, and digital learning to school systems that seem to crave the status quo?

  • Education News January 2012

    The news this month includes items about budgets, online education in Idaho and Race to the Top in Tennessee as well as survey results.

  • Video Games As Instructional Tools In Schools

    What are the potential benefits to using selected video games as instructional tools?

  • Technology and the Human Connection

    Is technology separating learners and making it hard to collaborate, or is it possible to use technology to bring students together?

  • Clicks Get Bricks

    Virtual and face-to-face learning have each been successful and could be showing us that a blend of the two might be the best way of learning.

  • Five Tips for School Leaders

    Here are 5 simple things that school leaders can do to help teachers as they transition their classrooms to Web 2.0 learning.

  • Challenges of Common Core

    A poll of common core participants reveals that many teachers anticipate positive results, but fear the lack of money for implementation.

  • Attitudes Toward Public Schools

    A recent poll of Americans’ attitudes toward public schools shows in general a strong support for the schools and teachers, for now.

  • Education News for December 2011

    This month’s news includes items about Google, goversners, NCLB overhaul and online education.

  • Less Money for New Fiscal Year

    The new year for K-12 schools brings steep cuts in state funding, and with federal emergency money gone, states face serious consequences.

  • Individualized Math Intervention

    In general our students have not done well in mathematics, but perhaps what we need is a firm foundation in basic math that leads to higher math.

  • SIIA Vision K-20 Survey

    A survey of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary educators shows, despite lean budgets, limited progress toward technology and eLearning.

DLE Blogs

The Technology Integration Answer...Well Almost

Steven Anderson

Integrating technology isn't as hard as it is made out to be. Acutually you don't really have to change a thing.

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.

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.

Learn more about integrating technology into various curriculum areas.

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