Chapter 6

This chapter is all about integrating technology into the classroom. As teachers we must be able to understand the curriculum standards and be able to apply them with an appropriate technology project. We create learning objectives which is essentially tied to an understanding of the curriculum standard. Basically for technology integration to be successful in the classroom, the students must be able to get into and enjoy the project through authentic Learning.. Authentic learning is instructional activities that demonstrate real life connections by associating the lesson with a real life activity. In my opinion the best strategy for curriculum integration is to weed out the teachers that do not have proper training and prior experiences in technology and give this type of curriculum to trained teachers. The students will find that they enjoy learning about technology as well as learning content in a subject related curriculum areas, as long as the teacher is using proper strategies for technology integration.

Last class we talked about our Web page evaluation assignment. At first I did not really get the point of having students evaluate a web page. after reading and doing the research it became obvious to me that this assignment could be beneficial to most students. I did not realize how many websites out there provide false information. being aware of this fact could be very beneficial.