Technology should be incorporated into every single classrooms curriculum. Technology has revolutionized the way we think, work, and play. Technology helps revolutionizes the learning process and the way we think. Many studies show that technology integration in the curriculum improves students' learning processes and outcomes. Technology does not just benefit the students in the classroom but it also benefits the teachers. Technology helps change the student/teacher roles and relationships First, students take responsibility for their learning outcomes and teachers become guides and facilitators. Technology helps teachers be the best they can be and helps teach students how to become digital citizens.

Teachers are now changing the way they think to improve students learning process and outcomes. We use the MA DLCS and ISTE standards to help us guide technology instruction in the classroom. These standards allow educators to know what is grade appropriate to teach in the classroom!

• MA DLCS

• Iste Standards

• 6 benefits of using technology in the classroom!

Here are some useful resources to use at home and in the classroom...

• Screencastify: is part of your browser. It makes it easy to record, edit, and share videos of your computer screen. Recordings can easily be shared via email, embedding code, YouTube, Google Classroom and more.

  • • Teachers benefit from this tool because screencastify has three different uses. The first use is to record the current tab you are on on your browser, the second is recording your desktop which makes it easy to have multiple tabs open and the last one is the webcam only.

• Bitmoji Classroom: is a customization, making mini-me avatars to become stand-in teachers running virtual classrooms, enforcing rules and expectations, collecting assignments and accessing important links for students.

  • • Here is a simple example of a Bitmoji Classroom!

• Google Docs: is a collaboration and document authoring tool where users can produce text documents, slide presentations, spreadsheets, drawings, and surveys.

• Google Classroom: is used to create assignments for students to work on digitally. Teachers are able to assign assignments, provide feedback, and grade the assignments.

• Google Slides: allows you to create digital presentations. These presentations can be easily shared with others.

• Google Tour Creator: is an app that allows teachers to bring interactive images together to build a virtual field trip. These images can be collected from Google Maps which helps bring the environment from the outside world into the classroom. - Google Tour is located right in Google Drive which makes it easy to access and it can be used from any mobile device with a camera. - Google Tour works with VR headsets such as the

• Google Cardboard: This app allows you to even use the panorama setting on your 1. smartphone when you access the photos

• Google Arts and Culture: brings you and your students on a virtual journey into the sights, sounds, and experiences of field excursions to four spectacular national parks. - The virtual tours offer interactive experiences that engage your senses and invite you to form connections with different places.