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"...well-run organizations employ technology as a way to improve their performance...Far too often, school leaders fail to consider how technology might dramatically improve teaching and learning, and schools frequently acquire digital devices without discrete learning goals and ultimately use these devices in ways that fail to adequately serve students, schools, or taxpayers." 
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Recently, I've been noticing that a lot of instructors are under the impression that they are successfully integrating technology, when in fact they are simply using technology. Although this might...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Take a look at this chart. As you reflect on your use of technology where does it falls? Do your activities fall into the column, using technology, or in the second column, technology integration? Are their changes you think you need to make based on this interpretation?
Rebecca Ferlazzo's curator insight,
May 12, 2013 9:27 PM
An important point to remember when we are considering using technology in the classroom. The integration of technology can be a help in the classroom while simply using technology can become a hinderance. So where do we make that distinction? 
James Buchanan's curator insight,
June 5, 2013 11:47 PM
This article is about digital technology and how it is used and integrated. Are we truly USING technology when it is not integrated? When we ask for assessment that is presented with powerpoint, for example, we could just as easily ask them to write it in a book or make a poster. Digital technology should be used to facilitate collaboration and build high level thinking skills, that is how learning occurs.
Rebecca Wilkins's curator insight,
July 17, 2015 9:18 PM
Technology use is the first step. Technology integration is the opportunity to combine technology with pedagogy. Technology infusion is the process of using technology as a tool for learning, thinking, and problem solving. |
This report, published by the Center for American Progress, looks "at the issue of how students used technology and the return that educators were getting on their technology investment." The data comes from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, also known as the National Report Card, and is considered "one of the richest sources of national student survey data"
A few of the findings are listed below as are the sections included in the article. By clicking through you will find additional information on each of the findings and much more. You may also download the report as a pdf.
* Students often use technology for basic skills.
* Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to have access to more rigorous STEM-learning opportunities.
Additional sections include: technology's potential, technology's tough questions, the growing digital divide, fulfilling the promise, recommendations and conclusions.