What Does A Technology-Infused Classroom Look Like?
In the 21st Century, a technology-infused classroom would look like one that integrates technology, so that students would be motivated and engaged in the activities being learn. A technology-infused classroom provides different ways for students to increase and improve students knowledge of what is being taught. Technology provides student-directed learning, which allows students with more choices then they normally have, but still guided instruction by the teacher. A technology-infused classroom could be set up in small groups and the classroom could be set up to provide space for students to interact with one another depending on the instruction at hand. This will give the students the opportunity to learn how to use technology on their own.
How do you plan to have a technology-infused classroom?
1. To have computers that students can have access to the Internet to do research and interact with other students and collaborate on projects.
2. To use a Smartboard, so that students are engaged and every learning style can be addressed in activities.
3. To use e-mail to connect with students in another part of the country, or another part of the world.
4. To use blogs to encourage interaction between students.
5. To use a LCD Projector to create demonstration to supplement lessons.
A technology infused classroom is a bit like southern style sweet tea. The infusion of the sugars through a heat and dissolution process is so good that the taste is noticeable different than just adding sweeteners to tea. The infusion that is natural, allows students and teachers to work in a technology-rich learning environment without having to work at it. Teachers have to use classroom technologies as natural extensions of their instructional tools, just as the pencil is a natural extension of writing or the textbook is a natural part of the classroom. It takes practice and time to infuse technology into a classroom, where teachers and students use the tools naturally, rather than just adding technology to the teaching and learning process, because the technology is sitting there.
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