Integrating Technology in the Classroom
2. Thinking Through Teaching with Technology
The number-one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. —Steve Ballmer, American businessman and former CEO of the Microsoft Corporation
In this section we will examine how and when integrate technology into the classroom to allow students flexibility and productivity while still feeling as though they are connected socially. In this Google document you will find lots of information for specific technologies to be integrated into the classroom. Please be aware that every time you have to learn a new technology your students are having to learn one as well - so proceed with caution as to not overwhelm anyone.