THE PRACTICE: Integration - School leaders must model the purposeful use of technology and ensure that teachers and students integrate technology into daily classroom practice.
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Resources related to this practice:

• Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/csile.html#Integrate

  CSILE (Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments) functions as a collaborative learning environment and a communal database, with both text and graphics capabilities. This networked multimedia environment lets students generate nodes, containing an idea or piece of information relevant to the topic under study. This site outlines CSILE, offering information on how to integrate it into the curriculum.

• Edtechnot.com
  http://www.edtechnot.com/

  This site might be called a meeting of ed tech leaders throughout the world. Its purpose is to bring those who are guiding technology use in schools together to discuss divergent opinions. The site includes information on plans, web logs, books, and ideas related to educational technology.

• Integrating Technology into the Instructional Process: Good Practice Guides the Way
  http://www.ncrel.org/mands/docs/8-3.htm

  Marianne Handler, of the National Louis University argues that the computer as a tool for students and teachers is not going to disappear from our world. Yet, even with that knowledge many teachers are still concerned and uncomfortable with finding ways in which a variety of technology-based experiences can expand and enhance what is happening in their classrooms. In order to alleviate these concerns, learning communities must find new ways of working and learning together. It is the intention of this article to encourage teachers to take the risks needed to teach in new ways, to try new tools and enjoy the challenge of learning with students.

• No Risk Internet Course
  http://eruditio.asu.edu/~cwoods/class/ration.htm

  Students need guidance when taking their first steps into cyberspace, and each step thereafter. This report, featuring a seven-week course, offers a simple, yet comprehensive curriculum for introducing the Internet to students.

• School Case Studies (Technology & School Reform)
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/schoolstories.html

  How does use of technology support education reform? School Case Studies is a review of nine schools that incorporated technology into their reform efforts. The studies discuss reform history, technology support and outcomes.

• Social Studies Teachers and Technology
  http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~z06gkd/techproj/techproject2/

  Reform efforts in the social studies have stressed a need to change the manner in which social studies has been taught and learned. One especially effective way to actively involve students in these activities is to incorporate technology into the social studies classroom. This paper provides activities developed in an attempt to integrate technology into the social studies curriculum while at the same time, encouraging skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, collaboration, creativity, and experience using various technological tools.

• Students Teaching Students with Technology
  http://techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/hildreth.htm

  This article from Technology and Learning magazine offers one teacher's perspective on integrating technology into art classes, as well as interdisciplinary art and social studies classes. She recognized that especially for students not planning a career in the arts, collaborative learning becomes an extremely valid and productive methodology when it is combined with technology.

• SWAT Savvy: A Model for Effective Classroom Technology Using Student Experts
  http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/bryan.htm

  Overwhelmed by technology? Learn how to call in the SWAT (Student Workers Applying Technology) team! This article from Technology and Learning magazine outlines one teacher's successful use of student experts to promote and organize the use of technology in her classroom.

• The BEST Model: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
  http://techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/kaczynsk.htm

  Teaching with technology and modeling teacher collaboration has become an empowering model at Brimfield Elementary School, one that encourages students to learn and communicate in a variety of ways. This article from Technology and Learning magazne outlines four years of the best practices discovered by the team approach of the Brimfield Elementary School Technology (BEST) model.

• The Secretary of Education's Conference on Educational Technology - Spotlight Schools
  http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf99/index.html

  The Secretary of Education's 1999 Conference on Educational Technology examines the shift in schools' focus on technology. Where once the emphasis was on building and implementing a technology infrastructure, it currently focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of its use in schools and classrooms. In Spotlight Schools, the conference evaluates over 40 schools that have demonstrated successful technology integration.

• Using Technology to Motivate Students
  http://4teachers.org/kidspeak/prejudice/

  Here?s a look at best practices from the other side of the desk. Five students from Beaverton, Oregon discuss how their teacher made an assignment on prejudice both enjoyable and meaningful by integrating technology. The site includes visual templates to help replicate the assignment.

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