To ensure that educationally focused technologies are effective in teaching, many factors must be considered. Some of these include the learner characteristics, the environments in which they will be used (online, face-to-face, or combination), the applicability to the learning objectives, ease-of-use, qualities that foster high levels of student engagement, critical thinking, and more. Read the Assessing Classroom Technology Integration article http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech243.shtml , which gives you some good ideas for how to evaluate technology integration in the classroom. Examine several of the Examples of Effective and Ineffective Technology Integration listed below. The complete references for these examples are listed in the Week Two Resources document.

Examples of Effective and Ineffective Technology Integration

Technology Lesson for Third Grade
Learning and Technology – “In That Order”
2012 Instructional Technology Lesson – 1st Place Winner – Greenway High School
Presentation Bad/Good Examples
Teaching English With Technology – Bad Example
Stuffing Technology into the Curriculum
Reflections on Using Technology to “Enhance” Learning Activities
Technology in the Science Classroom
Video Resumes

Initial Post

In your initial post, identify one example of effective and one example of ineffective use of technology (include a citation for each chosen source).

What role did the technology play?
Which was more important, the technology or the learning of content?
Why did you characterize each example as effective or ineffective? Justify your analysis.

Examples of Effective and Ineffective Technology Integration Select one of each to focus on in your initial post for the “Analyze Examples of Technology Integration” discussion.

Bell, D. [Dana Bell]. (2010, December 3). Technology lesson for third grade [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDdQSREl7iw

Brown, M. (2009). Learning and technology – “In that order.” Retrieved from https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0948.pdf

FEA Arizona. (2012, April 3). 2012 instructional technology lesson – 1st place winner – Greenway High School [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaV9oiDUoZQ

Hussain, S. [Hussasin Shafei]. (2012, June 21). Presentation bad/good examples [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5c1susCPAE

McKay, M. [Mike McKay]. (2010, October 7). Teaching English with technology – Bad example [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2YN-7OJls

McKenzie, J. (2004, June). Stuffing technology into the curriculum. Retrieved from http://www.fno.org/jun04/stuffit.html

Tam, M., & Rhee, J. [Michael Tam]. (2013, September 3). Reflections on using technology to “enhance” learning activities [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuZpi2J8GCM&list=UUxorkuiaIoyhV8-8IBGkpSQ

ondevonroad’s channel. (2012, February 28). Technology in the science classroom [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNWeLxLtmNk

Video resumes. (https://sites.google.com/site/kidsnetsoftvideoresumes/home)