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for your journey in integrating educational technology into your classroom
Common Sense Education is a platform that provides both teachers and schools with free tools for the classroom that are research-based and proven to help students to become well-adjusted educational technology users. You can check out their range of interactive games and digital citizenship curriculums for great ideas for your own classroom, and their sections on "Professional Development" and "Best Learning Apps and Websites" are fantastic resources to research and learn more about how educational technology can facilitate learning in the classroom by enabling students to be smart, safe, and responsible digital citizens.
In particular, Common Sense Education provides great Digital Citizenship and Student Privacy teacher training programs to further your personal research into educational technology and how to use it to facilitate learning.
Learning Assembly is a network of seven total nonprofit organizations that is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and works to implement the best edtech tools in schools for the facilitating of student learning.
This platform can be used to research educational technology to facilitate learning by enabling members to collaborate together with other educators, edtech companies, as well as Learning Assembly's research partners in order to discover as assess the best edtech tools to use in the classroom. Teachers will be able to collaborate, get feedback and contribute to increasing the quality of edtech tools in schools by sharing first-hand evidence of learning outcomes.
Learning Assembly also launched three podcast episodes you can utilize in your research!
Learn Platform is a platform of educators, researchers, technologists and thought leaders that develop digital learning products to facilitate learning. This is a great resource for researching more about how educational technology is to facilitate learning. Check out what Learn Platform does for educators, schools and districts and how they utilize technology to empower students in order to implement some of these strategies in your own classroom.
P.S. their goal is equitable access to educational technology for all students! Check out their 2022 Impact Agenda here to learn more.
Strategies
for successful integration of educational technology that facilitates student learning
Blended learning, or hybrid learning, is an instructional approach that combines online learning and interaction with traditional, in-person instruction. There are many different types of blended learning, which means choosing the right model for you and your classroom to successfully and effectively integrate educational technology is possible.
By complementing in-person learning with online tools and resources, blended learning creates the perfect environment for a fully technologically-integrated classroom that meets the needs of all learners. Blended learning helps to keep students engaged and motivated and facilitates learning inside and outside of the classroom.
Blended learning is an umbrella term for many types of instructional models. Click below to learn about the many different types of blended learning:
One of the most popular models of blended learning is a flipped classroom. Integrating educational technology to facilitate student learning is more than possible through a flipped classroom.
A flipped classroom is a modern twist on a traditional education. Instead of teachers taking a passive instructional lecture role during class and students completing homework assignments outside of class, a flipped classroom utilizes technology to bring instructional content to students outside of classroom, allowing the teacher to take a more active role in their students' education by using class time to use the knowledge students learn outside of class to debate, discuss, analyze, answer and ask questions, complete group assignments and give active feedback to students.
Furthermore, because the acquisition of content knowledge is completed outside of class time and online, students are able to take control of their learning by going through material at their own pace and utilizing online resources and tools to learn in a way that suits their learning needs.
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