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The article "How to Integrate Tech When It Keeps Changing," it explains the step you should take in knowing the newest and staying up to date on technology. For example, some sites change or update their site. So make sure to check once in awhile. Make sure you have an understanding and now what to do. With things that you are sometimes unsure with, make sure to try to get help with it from someone that may know.

This article speaks on how technology is evolving. With the constant changes it states how schools and teachers need to dive into technology and swim around in it. Classrooms need to correlate classroom learning and technology every day. It will be a lot easier in the future, because students will be more comfortable with it.Technology changes every day and the only way to keep up with the times is constantly working with it.

This article is helpful to our class because it establishes how important technology integration into our classroom is, and that in order to do so we teachers must be trained professionally. This improves our quality as educators.

This article can be helpful to us by using the integration recommended in the article. The article talks about many lessons teachers have done using technology integration and the experience they had with that lesson. It also gives a list of thing to try out.

"In order to help educators integrate technology effectively, we have compiled a list of technology tools focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD framework. Unlike other lists that promote "cool tools," yet leave teachers wondering about purposeful educational integration, our list is driven by specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and community-mindedness. We hope you will find our list useful."

This article suggests the 4 Cs of technology and how they can be helpful when it comes to integration in the classroom!

I enjoyed this article, it descriptively broke down the 4 C's and their contribution to educational technology. Education has come very far in terms of technological advancement and this article should prove very helpful to current and future teachers.

This short article researched the attitudes of teachers familiar with technology vs teachers who were not as familiar, and compared the attitudes of the two. As expected, those more familiar with technology had a better attitude towards integrating into the classroom. It was said the attitudes of teachers directly affected students'. 

This article is useful because it compares and contrasts the use of technology and technology integration. Which I think is so often misunderstood.

This article highlights how tablet based apps derived from classic thinking games, puzzles, and problems in recreational math are becoming a viable option to integrate technology into curriculum. The article states that puzzle apps are fantastic tools for training students to be creative mathematical thinkers. These apps align with the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice as well which makes this article important to our class because it gives us as future teachers an affordable option to integrate technology into our classroom that meets the Common Core Standards.

This article is about how to integrate technology into a history classroom. I am having trouble thinking of ways to do this and this article gives several examples and even more links to other websites with more examples.

Can help us newbies integrate tech in easy ways so that we can get comfortable using it in the class room. Gives basic ideas on how to integrate technology in your lesson plan that every teacher has access to. 

The Ramsey New Jersey School District purchased 1,075 ipads for all of the schools. Money well spent because a study proved better in class student participation as well as communication between students and teachers through e mails and video tutorials. I'm impressed because of their drive to create globally technologically competent students who are able to reach out to the whole world through technology. These students will be well prepared to face the work force.

This article discusses how technology will actually be beneficial when it comes to teaching with the common core standards, where some people were afraid this would not work. As future teachers, we must use the proper technology to ensure students are receiving a quality education and finding accredited information on the internet.

Today ISTE Standards list digital citizenship as one of aspects, which all members of a school district should support. Today digital technology is growing at a fast rate not only in schools but also in society as a whole. Mike Ribble and his college Gerald Bailey wrote a book called "Digital Citizenship in schools." The book defines 9 key elements on how use technology in school, home and within the community. Among the 9 elements are 3 categories: Respect, Educate and Protect. Respect covers using technology correctly and not stealing others property. Educate covers helping users communicate to each other properly and to use literacy correctly as well as buying items online correctly. Protect covers educating others to know their privacy rights. Mike hopes to have these 9 elements created into a curriculum so teachers can use technology at various levels. Mike wants to make sure that educators make sure to help students understand the issues they may encounter online while also showing the positive impact technology can have.

This is a great article from former Gov. Bob Wise about how technology can be better integrated into the classroom. Bob Wise has a lot of experience with the department of Education so his insight is quite useful. He give 3 basic tips about how to make the intergration process as easy as possible. Quite an interesting read!!!

Nearly 100% of all Hastings Elementary students have learned how to create basic computer codes. This was accomplished by exposing K-4 graders to something called "block coding" which is where students are given a set of blocks that represent commands. They use these blogs to "debug" and "create" a program. The article also outlines technology literacy.

I found this article that relates to our class. It relates to our class because it talks about how todays students are starting their schools years using more technology then ever before. Instead of having students writing, they are swiping screens. This article labels the skills that technology can help improve in students today.

This post talks about integrating relevant information into the use of technology in a classroom. This means going beyond teaching the kids how to use the device and download apps but applying technology to specific areas of learning. This includes collaborating with the teachers of certain subjects and creating google docs to be able to openly see students progress as well as create ideas. They also talk about the SAMR model and i'll post that word for word because its an important model that was adopted by the school in the article for this idea. Substitution: Technology acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional change. Augmentation: Technology acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional improvement. Modification: Technology allows for significant task redesign. Redefinition: Technology allows for the creation of new tasks, previously inconceivable.

This is an article that talks about fun ways to integrate tech into the classroom through classroom activities. Making book trailers, talking about TED, Journaling , etc

When integrating technology into the classroom, it is important to remember 5 different topics - attitude, pragmatism, humility, adaption, and self-scaffolding. Be open to ideas and uses of technology students may want to show you and when introducing something new, always remember baby steps.

This article explains the best way to integrate technology. It mentions Edmodo, which we use in our classroom, as well as other applications that can be used within a classroom. It speaks about having a balance in your classroom, and mentions the best method to integrating technology is to have a plan as well as a back up plan. 

It is important as a teacher to know how to use classroom management especially with technology involved in the classroom.

I also found this article very interesting. It points out very important information on applications used in the classroom, integrating technology, and always having a back up plan which is very important.