What is Effective Technology Integration for

21st Century Learners

Effective technology integration:

•Enhances students’ learning experience

•Enables more effective learning opportunities

21st century skills include:

•Global Awareness•Financial Literacy•Health Literacy

•Environmental Literacy And more!

21st century skills include:

Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2007. www.p21.org

Consider using technology...

•To increase access to world

•To provide alternative mediums for student work•To access more resources

Consider using traditional methods...

•When work can be done just as well without

technology•To foster manual skills

•To provide balance between on and offline work

Classroom Example: Social Studies – Government Theme

Access Online Newspapers

Deepen Understanding of Government

Promote Civic LiteracyPromote Global Awareness

Promote Environmental Literacy

References

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2007). Building 21st century skills. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/route21/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=

• Feldman , A., Coulter, B., & Konold, C. (2001). Linking technology, learning and school change. Learning & Leading with Technology, 28(4), Retrieved from http://alicechristie.org/edtech/readings/LTLSC.pdf doi: 800.336.5191