Technology Infused Classroom

Envisioning a technology infused classroom in the 21^st Century, you probably think about all students with laptops at their desk, cell phones in their pocket, and a set of IPads.  Since we are currently in the middle of 2012, we have new technology being released almost every few months with the newest and fastest gadgets with plenty of Gigabytes that you won’t really use.  The reality is that schools do not have the same privilege to keep up with the greatest technology in the classroom.  So you’re wondering, how teachers have technology infused classrooms without the updated technology?

A classroom that has the technology infused classroom has students interacting with each other learning the basic knowledge of how the content materials work to synthesizing the content with the assistance of the appropriate technology.  Teachers play an important role because they need to preselect the technology that will best help the students learn the content.  In order to preselect which is the planning process of an educator, they need to know that students have different learning styles and they must meet the needs of the students in that classroom.  There is no longer a one size fits all lesson if you want your students to succeed and have a learning environment.  Differentiation comes in handy when using technology, it’s also important to select the correct technology and not use it just to throw technology to the students.   In the technology infused classroom, the teacher is a facilitator and there is a student center learning using different technology that promotes higher level thinking, critical thinking, problem solving with real life scenarios, and teaching content standards with NETS.