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The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments.

How can children lead productive and satisfying lives in the 21st century if in school we are having them use technology from the 20th century? The hallmark of the 21st century global workplace is the computer. According to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study, "The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools," students spend 27 hours a week online at home and an average of 15 minutes a week at school. Students are not using computers to any appreciable degree in school because district leaders are not providing computers to students to any appreciable degree.

ISTE's unveils revised National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) at NECC

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Are your students fully engaged in relevant, deep learning that is preparing them for the high-tech living, learning, and working endemic in today's global society? Designed to align to the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21), ISTE's new standards, and the enGauge framework for 21st Century learning, Dimensions21 (D21) is an audit system that gauges a school or district's current status and readiness to implement 21st Century learning.