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, students will learn how to edit work and will practice common editing notations, marks and the use of colored pens when editing and rewriting work.

Encourage prewriting steps as well as both creative and persuasive communication with this easy lesson.

Allow your students to dig into their own personal backgrounds to write an expressive essay.

The absolute wrong way to deal with educational technology is to look at a tool and try to build a lesson around it.

The right way to deal with educational technology is to not worry about it until after the lesson is planned.

echnology does not belong in every lesson just because there is a tool sitting there. I still have my students

Last semester, Tomarken also faced another problem – the lack of a good textbook for teaching structural equation modeling to social science students – that he solved using technology. “There is no book that is perfect, that really is appropriate, for this class. There are either books that tend to be too easy or too hard or just not broad enough in scope.” Tomarken solved this problem using the Prometheus system, by placing his lecture notes on the web. This not only replaced the textbook, it allowed students to spend more time focused on the lecture and less time copying formulas from the board. “I told them, you don’t have to write anything, it’s all on the web, just listen.”

Teacher's iPad Experiment Shows Possibilities for Classroom Technology

The sample size may have been small, but the finding was promising because of how Harmon went about integrating the iPads. "Students wrote their journal entries on the class Moodle, accessed on the iPads" Harmon wrote in his report. They also used the devices to collaborate "on the retelling of works of drama with apps," and to take tests. Students were also more eager to write on the devices and composed longer essays than when writing in a notebook.

The teachers also reported that the devices made their lessons more engaging and helped them connect with students.

The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration

Using technology for learning makes sense. Technology creates access, transparency, and opportunity. Any smartphone or tablet is media incarnate–video, animation, eBooks, essays, blog posts, messages, music, games.