Journal 7

“Technology Integration: What Happens Now?”
By: Linda Merillat, Jennifer Holvoet, and Doug Adams


This article deals with the fact that the responsibility for technology integration has shifted. With more money going to the states, state leadership will need to take as more aggressive role in ensuring teachers have the needed skills to deal with a more technologically save student population. Districts will need to have to take a more active role in preparing teachers, assessing their competency in technology, and providing them with the professional development and resources they need. Teachers themselves will need to take more active roles themselves in prepping for the classroom. Seymour Hanfling of the Center for Classroom Teaching and Learning at NWREL (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory) commented that new technologies are always emerging, and we will need to change and adapt to those challenges. He goes on to say that in the next few years, districts will need will become serious about implementing 1-to-1 computing solutions and will be evaluating them using online or electronic curriculum. We will need to look at, he says, “how the situation changes for teachers when students will have access to technology for the first time.”






1. Q: How can teachers stay ahead of the curve when it comes to dealing with an ever-increasing technology proficient student population?
A: A way for the teachers to keep ahead would be to read up on the educational technology journals. Another way could be that he/she attends district meetings that deal with the ever-changing technology in the field of education.

2. Q: is it realistic to assume that teachers can be ever renewing their technology with districts and state legislatures that are not necessarily for the keeping up with the newest technology themselves?
A: It is realistic because the teachers are the last line of education when it comes to the students. If they do not keep up with the technology, irregardless of whatever the districts or the state legislatures philosophy is to education, they will not be able to fully relate and integrate the, materials and make it relevant to their students