Empowering Uses of Technology
You'll know your integration is effective if it is:
- Supporting diverse learners needs (SPED, ELL, TAG) /Meeting more diverse learning needs
- Enabling a wider range of teaching styles /Augmenting teachers' instructional style
- Increasing the range of "hard-to-master" teaching strategies
- Creating more positive teacher/student relationships
- Building cooperation between students
- Allowing teachers to see and appreciate students' strengths rather than their deficits
- Allowing more precise "on-the-fly"/"real-time" identification of barriers to student learning
- Helping teachers use data to modify instruction
- Expanding students' appreciation and understanding of other people and cultures - both in class and globally
- Helping students "shine" in the classroom
- Targeted clearly toward identified school /classroom improvement goals
- Introduced and taught in the context of core curriculum activities and projects rather than as standalone technology skills units