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At its core, what’s the point of tech integration? I would argue that it isn’t to teach students how to use a single tool – any tool we teach kids to use now will most likely be obsolete by the time they enter the workforce. But just like we don’t teach students to read every book they’ll ever encounter, we don’t need to teach them to use every tech tool they’ll ever encounter. Rather, we need to teach them the skills – the grammar, the phonics – that will allow them to navigate the tech tools they will eventually use.

gain, there is a confluence of factors that will make BYOD the 1:1 model of choice for 2012 (a model, by the way, that will get devices onto a lot more desks and into a lot more student hands in the classroom this year). The emergence of inexpensive devices like the Kindle Fire, despite its lack of manageability, means that tabets will become increasingly commonplace for for students, making instant access to the Internet and a variety of content easily achieved. AMD is promising inexpensive alternatives to Intel’s ultrabooks and prices continue to fall on remarkably usable laptops.

12 Education Tech Trends to Watch in 2012

The trick is to be disciplined and only take tech breaks at predefined intervals. O

there are other effective ways to reset the brain. Rosen lists a bunch: listening to beautiful music, looking at art and practicing yoga. Or going outside for a hike.

ACER principal research fellow, Gerry White, told Computerworld Australia that school students need to be equipped with adequate tech skills to take advantage of the internet and technology for learning purposes.“The whole business of using technology so that they can benefit it in terms of research, doing projects, being more productive, writing, any of those sorts of things that they do in terms of their study, there’s no doubt… they need to be taught how to actually use technology,” White said.