Conclusion

Your completion of this activity has helped you develop skills in the use of technology for instruction and our class discussions have given you some ideas about how you might use these skills to enhance your instruction and assessment.

However, technological literacy is a use-it-or-lose-it skill, so you need to practice! Play with technology, read about new technologies, create technological products, write lesson plans that use technology, and then try it. YOU CAN DO IT! Remember, technology in the classroom promotes motivation, higher-order thinking, and 21st Century Skills. Using technology is not just a "fun" thing or something we do because "all the kids have it." We integrate technology into our instruction because it enables meaningful, current, engaged, and deep learning of our content. Think of the children!!!