Technology Integration: Ideas That Work

In schools today, technology is a tool used for instruction, not just a subject of instruction. This article discusses many different aspects of technology, and how it is used to enhance teaching.
The internet has many sites that can be integrated into the classroom, not only by students, but by teachers and administrators as well. Refdesk.com is a website that contains much information, from a thought and word of the day, to links to newspapers, to dictionary and thesaurus links, as well as to many other activities. The article outlines how a teacher can use a website like Refdesk.com to teach subjects like science, and history. There are many ways to integrate technology into the classroom, and this article discusses some of them. One way that I found interesting was to use an internet scavenger hunt to integrate technology into almost any topic. I liked the idea of having younger students do an internet scavenger hunt as a way to become more familiar (and therefore more comfortable) with using the internet to find information. Betty Kistler, retired K-8 computer teacher/coordinator discusses how she found that at first most teachers felt more secure using the internet in the classroom lab when she was there, but after they had used it for a while, they became more comfortable with it. I related to this, not because of using the internet, but of using the technology itself. I don’t have a lot of experience using technologies other than word processing. I would have liked to read