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What is Technology Integration?

Excerpt from IT’s Elementary! Integrating Technology in the Primary Grades.
====Copyright 2007, ISTE ® (International Society for Technology in Education), IT’s Elementary! Integrating Technology in the Primary Grades, Boni Hamilton. All rights reserved. Distribution and copying of this excerpt is allowed for educational purposes and use with full attribution to ISTE.====

====To clarify what the term integration means, one must first understand what it does NOT mean. Integration is NOT the use of managed instructional software, where a computer delivers content and tracks students’ progress. Integration is NOT having students go to a computer lab to learn technical skills while the classroom teacher stays behind to plan or grade papers. Integration is NOT using the Internet to access games sponsored by toy manufacturers or popular television shows. Integration is NOT using specialty software for drill and practice day after day. Integration does NOT replace a teacher with a computer.==== ====Integration is when classroom teachers use technology to introduce, reinforce, extend, enrich, assess, and remediate student mastery of curricular targets. Integration is an instructional choice that generally includes collaboration and deliberate planning.====

===Technology integration is not a subject area, nor is it a curriculum: it is an instructional strategy. Technology is an instructional tool; using it in an integrative fashion is an instructional strategy. As such, it is not added to the curriculum; it is a tool for delivering subject matter already in place within the curriculum. It is a tool for accessing, organizing, managing, analyzing, incorporating and evaluating information. It is a tool for developing new understandings and communicating. It is the tool of the 21st century to be used by teachers and students in their teaching and learning. === =ride.ri.gov=

Technology

 * Must support a fundamental literacy that the school believes in.
 * Must add __value__ to the lesson.
 * Should __extend or enhance__ the lesson to a place that otherwise could not be reached without the use of the technology.
 * Should always answer the "so what?" question.

**These are some tools that will be of benefit to all grade levels.** =[|Kathy Schrock's]= favorite websites. There are tons!



[|Fodey]
Fun animations to add to your webpages, blogs, wikis or notebook files. These are flash files that can be put right into your SMART Notebook files.

A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education. This is a site I visit often to keep up to date on the new things available on line.

With this online diagram software, you can easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, #|technical drawings, and more. Great way to diagram your classroom and create a seating chart.

[|NeoK12]
Educational videos

Store your Power Points online , so you have access from any computer you use for instruction. This is an easy to use tool that walks you through the steps of uploading your file.

Online tool that lets you create your own bookshelf. You could use this as a reference area for good books for your grade level, or a place where your students could write reviews for their favorite books.

If you are looking for an all in one site that has a plethora of ideas for lessons, bulletin boards, worksheets, units of study and much more this is the site for you.

This tool enables you to cut a small portion of a video and save it as a new clip. This could help you to select just the part of a video that you want to use.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Wall Wisher]
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Use this tool to keep track of your to do list. This is an online post-it note site that you can use to take notes or keep track of the things you need to do.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If you need a refresher on how to use or create a wiki this is the site for you. You will also be presented with a variety of wiki sites that will help you know your options when picking a wiki site.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 111%;">Convert any file format to any other file format without downloading any kind of software, completely for free. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">You can use this to convert videos to flash and easily import into SMART Notebook files.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 111%;">Convert any file format to any other file format without downloading any kind of software, completely for free. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">You can use this to convert videos to flash and easily import into SMART Notebook files.