"Strategies For Integrating Technology Into Teaching"

Integrating technology into teaching has become the standard in a large amount of classrooms today. Teachers can utilize a variety of teaching methods to develop a learning atmosphere whereby students become autonomous learners and deem responsibility for personal learning.

Teachers avail themselves of computers, data projectors, interactive whiteboards, the Internet, educational software, and other technology devices to provide more interesting, motivating lessons for students. Computers are used to create power points so that students not only hear the information but see the information with the incorporation of data projectors and interactive whiteboards.

Educational software and the Internet assist teachers in providing unique opportunities for students to interact with lessons. For example, there are a variety of science applications for student use to grasp difficult abstract concepts or unattainable examples of real-life situations, such as virtual dissection, animated explanations of body systems, and building of atoms and chemical bonds. In other subject areas, virtual field trips can be taken to places too expensive or far to travel. It also provides access to resources that otherwise would not be available for students to expand learning.

Technology provides teachers with easier faster options of assessing students for instantaneous feedback. It can allow teachers to collect data and track student progress. Students are able to take assessments and experience tutorials via computers and computer applications.

Though there are many other strategies for integrating technology in teaching not mentioned, these are a few that are used from personal experience. Technology has changed the face of learning. Now, one must realize that it is important to make learning opportunities relevant and equivalent to the world outside the classroom.