I came across a great article this week entitles "As I See It" by Mark A Evans.
The article begins with a thought provoking question. Dose your school district integrate technology in the core content areas rather than teach technology in a separate class or even with an entirely different activity? This question poses an important question.
Whatever the answer may be (according to district or implementation) technology is evident in school, however, is it being used wisely.
With the focus on the core content curriculum areas, teachers are not pulled in two separate directions, such as having to add a technology lesson), technology integration occurs in the classroom, rather than in a separate lab as extension activities, and students learn the skills needed to view a great deal of learning that occurs online and thourgh the use of digital resources.
The article focused on the recent phase by educators to merge technology application scope and sequence into the core content areas. The Education Technology dept which skills were subject specific, and then enhanced or in many cases created lessons from the core content areas to include the technological application standards. There were a few instances that this technology could not be incorporated into the curriculum. With this new system in effect, teachers have a great tool to teach with!
There are great benefits t this system. It allows students to learn to work using technology while focusing on the real business of learning the required standards in each of the core content areas and technology applications. This type of out of the box learning is the very thing that encourages students to learn in a fun and exiting way.
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I think it is important that technology should be part of education. I mean isn't education to better prepare our students for the real world? I would say yes and therefore we must also help them to use technolony. In this day and age, technology is everywhere and thus we must allow our students to be better prepared by getting experience using all forms of technology. This way, we can help them for the future.
ReplyDelete@Irene- Yes, our students NEED to be prepared for the "real world". The key point is that technology is, pretty much, everywhere. thx for the comment.
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