Take the time to read this brief article about the need to plan
before integrating technology in the classroom.
Not exact matches
One of the administrators who had interviewed me just two weeks
before school started came up to me afterwards and said, «Linda, when I asked you
in August how you would
integrate technology into your
classroom, I never expected this!»
Before we rush to judgment on
technology integration as another sweeping phase
in education, we should focus on finding a healthy balance for
integrating technology in our respective
classrooms.
Before we can discuss how to shift our pedagogy or the role of the teacher
in a
classroom that is
integrating technology, it is important to first define what «
technology integration» actually means.
In order for preservice teachers to develop the skills needed to
integrate technology into the
classroom for educational purposes, teacher educators must model those same skills, and preservice teachers must have opportunities to practice those skills
before and during the practicum (Kumar & Vigil, 2011; Tondeur et al., 2012).