Educational Technology – Overcoming Obstacles to Successful Implementation

Today’s students are digital learners. Often more comfortable on a computer than with a pen in hand, students spend hours on their electronic devices outside of school time. Objections to technology integration in the classroom are many, including cost, teacher training, and ensuring that all students have access to the necessary equipment both at school and at home. While many of these concerns are valid, they are not insurmountable. The question should no longer be whether to use technology as a teaching tool, but rather how can teachers integrate technology into the classroom in ways that are simple to implement, inexpensive, accessible, and that help students become engaged and more successful learners?

Danger! How Assuming That Students Understand Our Words Fails Them

it is important that we, as teachers, especially those of us who work with kids with special needs or learning disabilities, don’t assume anything about what they know. Assuming that students understand our words is a path for failure with our students. Their home lives and experiences are often very different from ours, and we need to be mindful of that if we are to give them the best possible learning experience in our classrooms.

Bullying by Exclusion: He Says, “She Says I Can’t Play!”

Bullying by Exclusion - social exclusion: help kids work towards solutions to exclusion with a clear understanding of the issue. Well, I had an experience that brought this awareness about bullying home to me at a “kid” level. I find that it is difficult to even admit my feelings and write about them, because of the many messages I received all my life that “these feelings are petty, silly, not valid.”

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