Welcome & Introduction

Welcome to my technology integration blog. This blog is designed and created to promote a forum for information on how to implement technology in the classroom and to reflect on concepts discussed in my MEDT 7464 class. I am currently working on my M.Ed. in instructional technology. It is my hope that this blog will prove to be a valuable resource and spark discussion about concerns and ideas about technology integration.

What is technology integration? I think technology integration is the smooth, effective and efficient implementation of technology into a class lesson. True technology integration is achieved when using the technology is not seen as some big event for the month (i.e. I’m going to check out the “clickers” at the end of the month for a one-day review just to say I’ve used technology in the classroom), but the regular flow of technology use in the classroom. In our book, Egbert mentioned that even pencils are a form of technology. While, I don’t particularly like that interpretation it got me thinking about things. What if we kept all the students pencils locked up in the media center? And then once a month we checked them out for a big project or event. It seems silly, doesn’t it? I mean, of course, we can use the pencils for a variety of academic goals each day—using the pencil to increase or aid student achievement. When we start thinking about technology being as commonplace, useful, and necessary as pencils in the classroom, we will have achieved real technology integration.

Egbert, Joy. (2009). Supporting Learning with Technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.