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Classroom Technology Best Practices
"New technology is common, new thinking is rare." ~Sir Peter Blake

iPads, Androids, Chromebooks, Windows tablets, it's not the technology that matters, it's how you use it. Here are resources to help guide standards based, research driven technology integration in a 21st century classroom.

21st Century Skills

Providing students with necessary skills that they need to survive, thrive, and innovate
in a 21st century society and workplace.

Blended Learning

Any time a student learns, at least in part, at a brick-and-mortar facility and through
online delivery with student control over time, place, path, or pace.

Challenge Based Learning

Encourages students to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve
real-world problems through efforts in their homes, schools and communities.

Flipped Classroom

Inverts traditional teaching methods, delivering instruction online outside of class
and moving "homework" into the classroom.

Gamification

Harnessing the power of games to improve student engagement.

ISTE Standards

Set a standard of excellence and best practices in learning, teaching
and leading with technology in education.

Maker Movement

Give your students access to the latest hands-on technologies
and permission to invent something that interests them.

Organization & Etiquette

Exploring how to stay organized and appropriate
in a technological environment.

Project Based Learning

Working for an extended period of time to
investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge.

S.A.M.R.

A method developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedora to see how technology might impact
teaching and learning.

T.I.M.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use
technology to enhance learning for K-12 students.

Educational Technology

Classroom Technology Best Practices "New technology is common, new thinking is rare." ~Sir Peter Blake