Integration+Practices

=Technology Integration= //**Goal:** Why is technology integration important?// //What should technology integration look like?// //What tools do I have to support technology integration?//

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1. Technology Literacy: An Evolutionary Definition
//Resources for Additional Reading:// David Warlick: [|Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century Keynote Address] David Warlick: [|Concept Map for Learning Literacy] Jamie McKenzie: [|Reading Across a Dozen Literacies] [|Additional Definitions of 21st Century Literacy]
 * < **OLD:**
 * Information Technology Literacy** ||< **NEW:**
 * Learning Literacies for the 21st Century** ||
 * < * information literacy is the ability to find, manipulate, and analyse information
 * traditional literacy skills need to include technological literacy or the ability to utilize and understand the impacts of technology.
 * heavy focus on technology to help filter and manage information ||< * enter the world of Web 2.0
 * information literacy expands in definition as students now have the ability to **CREATE** and **INTERACT** with content and people through various tools.
 * new literacy skills emerge and literacy is further redefined.
 * teaching literacy and the skills to communicate effectively, ethically, accurately and compellingly emerge
 * teaching students the process and skills to be LEARNERS is the most important literacy ||
 * Exposing what is true
 * Employing Information
 * Expressing ideas compellingly
 * Using information ethically

TASK: What do you recognize as a common skills that technology can be especially beneficial in helping to accomplish?

2. Best Practices for Technology Integration
Technology should be appropriately INTEGRATED with core curriculum. Technology is not a subject area but a vehicle to assist in achieving learning goals. As such, best practices for technology integration generally refer to best practices for unit planning that achieve curriculum goals.


 * Teaching for Understanding Framework**
 * [|Overview]
 * [|Description]
 * Technology Integration Matrix**
 * [|Online Interactive Version]

10 Ideas for Getting Started with 21st Century Teaching and Learning: []
 * ISTE Standards for Technology Integration**
 * [|Students]
 * [|Teachers]

TASK: What do you see as positive steps to help you improve technology integration in your classroom? Is there a connection between the skills for the 21st century and the tools for planning?