Integration of technology in the classroom can be a slight bit intimidating to teachers unfamiliar with the different aspects of it, and needless to say time consuming. The Education World website helps give teachers easy ways to integrate technology into their classroom routines. The following is a list from Education World. com of some ways to help educators incorporate technology in their classroom setting.
1) Access an online weather forecast. By looking at the weather online, this will also allow students to notice the weather of other countries.
2) Introduce a word of the day. Teachers can do this by finding an online word of the day, which can be found at Word Central (http://www.wordcentral.com/) or Vocabulary Builder (http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/wod.shtml).
3) Offer online SAT practice. This can be very beneficial for students preparing to take the SAT.
4) Incorporate online news sources into discussions of current events. This can be essential in updating students on what is taking place in the world today.
5) On Friday's, if there are enough computers for the students then the teacher can allow some computer time for the students. During this computer time students can do Brain Teasers (http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html) which can keep the students engaged in learning.
These are just a few quick ways teachers can incorporate technology in the classroom, if they do not have enough time to complete a whole lesson plan with technology-based tools. It is very essential that teachers to try to integrate technology in the classroom in some sort of way, since society is now technology enriched.
Source:
Starr, Linda (2007). Technology Integration Made Easy. Retrieved March 26, 2008, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech146.shtml.
Source: Atlanta Parent Magazine
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Great ideas for incorporating technology in the classroom. These assignments will facilitate a more smoother transtion of technology in the classroom.
Great auggestions for infusing technology without having it hit you over the head! My son just took the PSAT and we enrolled in the collegeboard.com website to receive an SAT practice question every day. Really a geat way to build skills and refresh knowledge of sample topics.
Just as you pointed out, the ideas you shared from the Educators World website are quick and easy ones to implement. What is exciting and encouraging is teachers can introduce technology in small doses and add to it little by little to help build a student's treasure chest of technological know how.
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