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Essential conditions for technology integration

This document outlines crucial conditions for successful technology integration in schools, including shared vision, standards alignment, policy implementation, and access to resources. It emphasizes the importance of ongoing teacher training, curriculum-matched technology, required policies for online use and legal/ethical practices, equity assurance, and skilled personnel. The text covers various aspects such as funding, hardware/software procurement, skill development, technical assistance, and assessment models. The goal is to ensure a smooth transition towards effective technology use in education.

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Essential conditions for technology integration

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  1. Essential conditions for technology integration Amari Tavel BenLevi EDMS Columbus State University

  2. Essential Condition: A shared Vision for Technology Integration • Coordinate school and district planning, and involve teachers and other personnel at all levels. • Budget yearly mounts for technology purchase, and plan for sustainability • Funding must address both initial purchases and upgrades needed to sustain school technical capacities over time. • Must plan for the technological changes that will occur • Emphasize continuing teacher training • Great to have teachers that are able to teach others about the latest technological changes in education. • This is one of BHS strong points, we constantly have school wide technology workshops • Match technology to curriculum needs • What are current, unmet educational needs, and can technology address them? • What are we teaching now that we can teach better with technology? • What can we teach with technology that we could not teach before, but that should be taught?

  3. Essential Condition: Standards and curriculum support • It is important to closely align technology implementation with the state standards • This is a weaker area for our school system

  4. Essential Condition: Required Policies • Online use policies • The Children’s Internet Protection Act is in place to encourage schools to have measures in place to keep students away from inappropriate websites. • It is important for school systems to monitor inappropriate internet usage such as, cyber bullying, sexting, pornography and other inappropriate activity. • Berrien County does a great job with blocking students from visiting inappropriate sites. • The schools Wi-Fi also has a block on those type of sites • Legal/ethical use policies • Important to have firewalls in place to block access from sites that may cause harm to the schools network. • Sometimes these firewalls may block sites that are educational in order to provide the safest internet surfing • BHS does a great job with having firewalls in place, but sometimes run into the issue with overly blocking sites based off certain keywords. • Policies to ensure equity • Financial assistance, incentives, and accountability policies

  5. Essential Condition: Access to Hardware, Software, and Other Resources • Finding funding • BHS recently received funding from Rack Room Shoes to supply more tablets for the school. • Purchasing hardware and software • Setting up and maintaining physical facilities

  6. Essential Condition: Skilled Personnel • Hands-on integration emphasis • Training over time • Modeling, mentoring, and coaching • Just-in-time training

  7. More Essential conditions • Technical Assistance • This is an area where BHS can improve • We need more technical assistance in order to keep the technology integration steadily progressing. • Appropriate teaching and Assessment Models • Substitution with no functional change • Augmentation: Technology acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional improvement • Modification: Technology allows for significant task redesign • Redefinition: Technology allows for new task that were previously not possible. • Engaged Community

  8. Reference • Roblyer, M. (2013). Integrating educational technology into teaching (7th ed., pp. 25-27). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson.

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