Does your school have technology available that you just don’t know how to use? Do you have a computer lab, a computer teacher and an technology specialist and just don’t know how to make technology useful in your curriculum?
When you think about your role in the classroom, and your student’s role in the classroom you think about facilitating learning and receiving learning. The concentration on these is paramount in the classroom leaving little room for figuring out the latest gadgets, software or programs and their role in teaching and learning.
An article in Learning and Leading with Technology discusses how a site administrator can analyze the needs and problems that exists in a school. To develop a plan for creating an open communication between teachers, students and technology experts may make integration easier and better received. Here are a few ways this can take place:
First, communication regarding how technology works and how software works could help
teachers to figure out exactly how it can be useful for curriculum and classroom. Not knowing what exactly software does or how it can be useful is a barrier to inclusion. Second, there has to be an effort on the part of the technology coordinator and the teachers to know and understand the other’s needs. Streamlining communication and understanding what’s necessary to make technology easy and useful in the classroom would go a long way in closing the technology gap. For more ideas of how technologists and teachers have worked together to resolve this issue, click here to read the article. *2017*
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