What Are Some Important Best Practices For Technology In Education?

Trying to integrate technology into your everyday life is difficult enough on it's own. But trying to integrate technology in a classroom is next level difficulty. Some teachers ma not be as computer savvy in comparison to other teachers whose entire life is based off technology. With those types of teachers they would be absolutely thrilled about integrating technology in their classrooms. So for the teachers not so thrilled about the entire technology in classroom idea there are five trends that should make that transition easier for the teachers, students, and parents. These five tends come from the article "Best Practices in Education Technology."    

The first trend is "New Structures and Funding Models." This trend introduces the use of leading-edge technology in education. It gives the teachers and students an opportunity to learn about the new technology before they even get a chance to see it. The second trend is "The Relationships Among Teachers, Students, and Parents." In order for development to happen the teachers and parents should both be on board for what is best for the students development. So collaborative approaches are in order for everyone to work together to grasp the understanding of technology in order to teach the students because parents are teachers to.

The third trend is "The Relationship Among Technology, Education, and Innovation." According to the article "innovation in education does not necessarily require high-tech and complex solutions." Technology is not meant to be complex and seem like a foreign language to people. To my understanding technology was created to make the difficult things very simple in everyday life. So it should have the affect in the classrooms. If you have a positive attitude about integrating technology into the classroom then learning how to use it will become enjoyable to you and the students. 

The fourth trend is "A More Sophisticated, Blended Approach to Learning." According to the article "learning can be formal and informal." Learning can be a difficult task for anyone to master without the proper teaching. Trend number four lists a few modes of learning that I feel might be helpful with best practices for technology in education. Just to list a few "ensuring that the digital divide does not exclude some learners from participation" and "assessing and accrediting such learning." Lastly trend number five is "More Sophisticated Assessment and Evaluation." Trend number five is an expansion to the fourth trend but with a little more information about assessment and evaluation. The assessment plays a very crucial role in every child's learning ability. We as teachers should be mindful of how we evaluate students as well. With trying to integrate technology into our classrooms we as teachers need to first gain all the knowledge we can about the technology that will be given to us then next find a way to implement the technology into our curriculum to benefit the students and I feel like the trends that I have listed here are some of the keys tools to getting the job done.