Week 1- The Essential Questions

Technology should be incorporated into lessons for many reasons. Nonetheless, there are two reasons that I find to be most important. I believe technology should be incorporated into lessons because it helps prepare students to adequately function in today’s technologically driven society, and also because research shows that incorporating technology is an effective way of keeping students engaged in their own learning. Likewise, if we do not provide technology integration we fail to prepare students for being successful in life and we fail to provide them with effective instruction to maximize their learning potential.

As for the purpose on integrating technology into learning, I believe it is two fold. As stated above, it provides students with opportunities to prepare themselves to enter the technologically driven workforce, and it also provides a means of maximizing their learning across all content areas.