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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. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.

The Beginner's Guide to 21st Century Teaching and Learning, designed for the digital immigrant, will answer these and many more of your questions, hesitations and fears surrounding integrating the internet and technology into your curriculum. It serves as a technology handbook for teachers ready to harness technology as a teaching and learning tool.

for teacher professional development explaining 21st century learning and contains awesome simple and direct tips.

Planning is imperative for any technology initiative - iPad or otherwise. You need to ensure that you clearly understand and communicate how the technology integrates with your overall pedagogical objectives. Too many institutions purchase technology and then search for ways to utilize it ... or leave it collecting dust on the shelf.

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) attempts to the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.

The combination of rich graphics, an intuitive touch screen, and lightning-fast processing speed is bringing educational technology to new levels of student engagement, she told a packed session titled The iPad Revolution: Innovative Learning in the Classroom at this year's International Society for Technology in Education conference in Philadelphia.

Over the past few months, iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. In webinars and blog posts, we have talked about the iPad as....

mobile device lessons that use higher order thinking

A free online collaborative classroom platform. Comes with lesson ideas and resources.

Links and info to support Flipped Classroom concepts

Office of Educational Technology iPad Institute for Innovative Leaders

a brief exploration of the history of writing technology, we will immerse ourselves in digital environments, analyzing the role of gender, race, economics and other ideologies of power in creating the material forms and tools that allow us to communicate in the contemporary moment.

Teaching Channel has great videos and lesson ideas for classroom teachers. All lessons connect to the Common Core standards What is lacking is the role of technology.

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Additional tools for iPad that are helpful

Leadership for Mobile Learning "Resources for exploring the hottest topic in educational technology via CoSN's Leadership for Mobile Learning Initiative" Created and curated by Lucy Gray

Last week we started looking at rollouts of iPads in schools by searching out, reading, and summarizing findings in articles discussing these types of programs. This week we continue our examination of this topic by sharing take-aways from this excellent article in the March/April 2011 Educause Review.

A growing number of schools have launched programs to provide iPads to students. What returns is this investment yielding?

valuable links for integrating technology

"I think this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector," Mr. Wolfe said.