7 smart ways to use technology in classrooms
istock Elementary school teacher Kayla Delzer’s students tweet, post on Instagram and watch YouTube in class. Here’s why she thinks all kids should do the same.
Center for Teaching and Learning
Teaching with technology can deepen student learning by supporting instructional objectives. However, it can be challenging to select the “best” tech tools while not losing sight of your goals for student learning. Once identified, integrating those tools can itself be a challenge albeit an eye-opening experience.
Teaching, Using Technology in the Classroom
Technology in the classroom has made it quite easy for teachers to do their job. Technology in the classroom makes the tedious tasks get done quicker, and keeps our students motivated and engaged longer. However, it’s important to find the right balance between actually physically teaching our students and using technology in the classroom.
Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning
Technology ushers in fundamental structural changes that can be integral to achieving significant improvements in productivity. Used to support both teaching and learning, technology infuses classrooms with digital learning tools, such as computers and hand held devices; expands course offerings, experiences, and learning materials; supports learning 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; builds 21st century skills; increases student engagement and motivation; and accelerates learning. Technology also has the power to transform teaching by ushering in a new model of connected teaching.
Using Technology to Enhance Teaching & Learning - SMU
Technology provides numerous tools that teachers can use in and out of the classroom to enhance student learning. This page provides an introduction to some of the most common. Faculty members should consult SMU's office of Academic Technology Services, which provides many kinds of support, including hands-on training in using classroom technology. (Click here for classroom-specific information about the setup in many campus buildings). SMU's STAR (Student Technology Assistant in Residence) Program is also available to help with short-term instructional technology projects. There are also numerous on-line resources about using technology to enhance teaching in a number of different ways.
The Use of Technology - In Education and Teaching Process - Use of Technology
The effective Use of Technology in Education has changed the face of education and it has created more educational opportunities. Both teachers and students have benefited from various educational technologies, teachers have learned how to integrate technology in their classrooms and students are getting more interested in learning with technology. The use of technology in education has removed educational boundaries, both students and teachers can collaborate in real time using advanced educational technologies. Technology has helped in the growth of mobile learning and long distance learning.
Preparing Faculty for Instructional Technology: From Education to Development to Creative Independence
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Using Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom
chainarong06/Shutterstock As educators, the use of Web 2.0 tools is transforming our work, and more specifically the way we support students in the classroom. As schools bring more technology into their classrooms, teachers will in turn strive to put more technology in their students’ hands. That is, if they are prepared to do so.
12 Easy Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom, Even for Technophobic Teachers
Everyone wants teachers to use technology in the classroom. But you're busy -- meeting standards, prepping students for tests -- and maybe you’re not too fond of computers, anyway. Never fear – there are easy ways to bring your classroom up-to-date, technologically. Do you have a iPad in your classroom for your use? How about iPads for students to use? Could you get a classroom iPad?
8 Strategies for Using Technology in the 21st Century Classroom
We’ve all seen the black and white images of the one-room schoolhouse. Students sit in perfect rows that face a teacher who’s writing on a chalkboard. Up until the last decade, our classrooms haven’t drastically differed from those 100-year-old images. We are so fortunate to be living and teaching in a time of rapid educational change. Instead of personal student chalkboards, a number of students now have access to electronic tablets.
10 of the Most Engaging Uses of Instructional Technology (with Dozens of Resources and Tools)
Are you looking for ways to integration technology in your lesson plans and courses that provide for an engaging experience for you and your students? Fans of instructional technology know that it can be fun and inviting, and engaged students are far more likely to be learning. I believe that if you can get students involved and motivated effectively enough, you can improve their learning habits over the long term. With that in mind, here are 10 highly engaging uses of technology in the classroom, along with dozens of tools and resources for implementation. Most of these involve free web based tools, so that's an added bonus!
SEI Videos
Videos produced by the University of Colorado Science Education Initiative (CU-SEI) and the University of British Columbia Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI). Other Videos Non-SEI videos that we recommend: iBiology Scientific Teaching Video Series - active learning module (produced by iBiology.org) A collection of short videos that provides current and future undergraduate biology instructors with the rationale and tools to design and implement active learning in their classrooms, featuring biology faculty at a variety of colleges and universities. Eric Mazur shows interactive teaching A short video showing Eric Mazur (Harvard University) implementing Peer Instruction using clickers.
Educational Technology
Welcome to the Educational Technology Program at the University of Florida. Faculty and students in the UF Ed Tech program collaborate with colleagues at UF and around the world to facilitate, study and disseminate ways in which learning, design and innovative technologies within physical, virtual and blended learning environments empower educators and learners and impact society. Our international faculty have experience in K-12, post-secondary and corporate environments and take the responsibility of preparing the next generation of educational technologists very seriously.
