Tech+Integration


 * Technology Integration **

Colleges are integrating college prep and carrier and technical education which allow high school learning to become real and informing. This allows students to be prepared for the work environment. Vocational school schools allow the students to move through the grades together allowing of small, personal groups and a more interactive learning environment. This also allows students to be around like minded students that work on the same things that they want to do. This allows the class environment to be fun and rewarding not just lecture based. It also allows for the students to get hands on experience so these skills can be integrated into the work place. According to the film these types of schools have higher attendance and lower drop out rates then conventional schools. Twice as many high risk students complete core classes, and more go to college. I have learned from this video that I need to take my teaching to hands on approach. As a history teacher I need to find a way to incorporate a hand on approach with a lecture based curriculum. This will keep my students be more involved and more engaged when they are learning. It will be important to teach my students a lesion and then incorporate some kind of lesson out side to keep them coming back. This video has shown me that if I just lecture to the class it becomes very hard for the students, and I must show some reason that they are learning the things that I am teaching them. Creating lesion plans that have a certain percentage of lectures followed by hands on activity will benefit the students more. I think that technology integration is very important in the class room, because it will help students understand the material better. High school students are at the age at which drop out rates are the highest, and they need to be involved with their learning. As a history teacher I have to find a way that will integrate my lesson plans and the technology so that they continue to come back. By inter grading technology with the lesson plan I could make history more enjoyable to those that might other wise be bored with it.

This is what and how technology can be integrated in the schools.

I think that technology will be integrated in the classes more so that students will enjoy classes more.