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Summary article explains need to integrate technology in education to create students ready for today and tomorrow's work world. Technology integration also needed to develop creative and critical thinkers able to collaborate with others locally or far away to create authentic products shared with interested audiences outside the classroom. Article also discusses value of portfolios for assessment.

This list includes technology integration articles, information, or opinion pieces.

This is my Technology Integration Articles, Info, or Opinion Pieces list.

This is the International Reading Association's (IRA) 2001 position statement on this issue of technology integration. The article, entitled "Integrating Literacy and Technology in the Curriculum," stresses the need to become proficient in the new literacies of information and communication technology (ICT). A PDF version is available for download.

Educators employ project learning to explore science and history together. Curriculum is designed to meet ISTE standards.

This article talks about tips in integrating technology according to NETS-S/ISTE standards and how some projects went about achieving a high level of technology integration.

The article talks about approaches, integration,methods, findings, and challenges that a fourth-grade teacher had when using technology integrated with literacy instruction.

Although a few years old, this article, entitled "When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class," addresses some still very relevant issues and positive outcomes from the integration of technology into the mainstream math classroom. The article touches on the reasons why teachers have been more hesitant to move to the constructivist approaches now readily seen in language arts, social studies, and in some cases science classrooms. The article features the author's first attempt at this type of teaching in math: a telecollaborative project entitled "Statisitics: A Curiosity Factor."

Explains how there is a place for technology in every classroom and describes reasons for integrating technology.

This website lays out the framework for completing Project Based Learning projects. Teachers are assisted through identifying learning, constructing assessments, designing activities, designing the process, and planning for management. The site provides a lot of direction for integrating technology in the classroom.

This is a helpful piece, targeted slightly to teachers of younger children, concerning how to integrate Wikis into a classroom experience.

Explore the challenges and rewards of integrating technology into the classroom. This is part I of a two part article.

This video is helpful in demonstrating the basics of podcasting and how it can be integrated into a classroom.

Article on technology integration; provides examples; explains meaning of 21st Century Skills.

Online journal for technology integration.

Interesting article on Technology integration looking at pedgogical beliefs.

Article looking at tech integration into teaching practice.

This article, retrieved from "Tools for TEKS- Integrating Technology in the Classroom" site, goes into why teachers should harness many of the new powers available to them now that read/write web (Web 2.0) programs are so readily available. Now that students have cell phones and are constantly posting to blogs, wikis, and YouTube, the author argues that we as teachers should put these things to good use in the classroom. Cell phones, as well as other digital audio and visual recording devices, can be used to gather and later present information for class projects.

This is an interesting article, as it offers a counter-argument to technology integration in all facets of the school experience, as least in the early years. The author makes a good point about young children being over-exposed to computer generated stimuli at such an early age, and he postulates the problems that ensue because of it. He refers to the "erosion" of childhood for marketing/money making purposes that benefit technology companies. He doesn't think software should replace good, interactive teaching.

In this article, the author describes a project where students in a 4th grade classroom complete Internet-based lessons about each region of the United States. They then use presentation tools like PowerPoint (which could now be Web 2.0 presentations tools, since this article was published in 2002) to create take-home reports to share with their parents. This artcile has some great ideas and insights into things that could be done differently the next time. Technology upgrades would also make the lessons more interesting, being that it is 2008.

This article talks about a project that was used in a social studies curriculum for 4 or 5th grade students where there is technology integrated into internet based lessons. They also use technology to prepare reports. The beginning gives a quick introduction about technology and the internet in schools today to prepare children for real-world situations. Then it goes into describing the project given to the students and how it affected them.

According to the website, Georgia Public Broadcasting "creates, produces, and delivers high quality educational resources that enrich, inform, and support the Georgia learning community." GPB provides multimedia educational programing with supplementary materials and training on classroom technology integration. The statewide network empowers teachers across the state to collaborate by connecting them with other teachers in and out of their fields.

Troxell Communications, in conjuction with Hitachi and Lumens, have created a Multi-Function Learning System that includes essential interactive classroom tools in one integrated package. One of these Multi-Function Learning Systems (MFLS) includes the new Hitachi Starboard FX DUO-77 Interactive Multi-Touch Whiteboard. This interactive board is the first to be dual-interactive. It is both pen and stylus-driven, and it can be written on like a normal dry erase board.