Fun With Technology Integration in Schools

Instructional Technology is a very powerful tool which enhances, and visualizes teaching to its fullest extent.  Unlike yester years, our children these days are exposed to media, digital images, video games and computers from day one.  When a child starts school he/she might not know how to write ones own name but can click on the keyboard and go to game sites or to operate a digital camera.  It’s the responsibility of the teachers to be well prepared to face the technical world of their students. Teachers need to learn their students’ terminology to communicate efficiently with them.  In other words the teachers have to think technologically and integrate technology in their daily classroom instruction.   

Examples: 

• Visual Learning: Digital images accommodate different learning abilities, preferences and styles of each student. It also helps to ignite their creative thinking. Photo Story, Image blender etc.
• Collaborative Learning Environment: Interactive white Boards,  online research and sharing information in small or in bigger groups
•  Co operative Learning : encouraging social skills, accepting diversity and promoting academic achievement  –  various software programs and online resources     
• Distance Learning: Online courses to accommodate various learning styles and  needs of individual students   
• Diversity in Classrooms:  Multi cultural student population – demands prior knowledge of each individual’s culture, ethnicity, race which impacts their learning styles.  Technology comes handy here.     
• Bringing the world together: Exchanging information with a group of students from another country via email or thorugh instant messaging.  wikis and blogs will help them get first hand information about other countries   
• Global Communication: Wikis,  Blogs, webcam, and voice over IP keep the widely spread families together and make the international students feel “at home” while the students are away from their home country.        
• Virtual classrooms: Will enable students with severe disabilities or health conditions to experience a classroom and learn almost like a regular student   
• Pod casting and web casting:  These tools help students with  special needs  

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