Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Tools to Meet the Need of Every Student

Teachers possess unique skills, knowledge and experience. So why should their approaches to classroom technology look the same? In this new edition of the popular book Integrating Technology in the Classroom, author Boni Hamilton helps you discover technology tools and projects that resonate with your teaching style, classroom context and technology skill level all while helping students achieve academic growth. In this book, you'll discover new and immediately applicable tools and practices to support collaborative, student-centered learning. In this new edition, you'll find: coverage of programming, game creation, and augmented and virtual reality; stories of teachers who have successfully employed technology in the classroom, with more examples from secondary-level teachers, including visual learning preferences and kinesthetic/tactile learning; deeper explanation of how to leverage technology to meet multilingual needs; a new chapter on leveraging technology to meet adaptive needs, including examples from teachers who use adaptive technologies in regular classrooms; strategies that address efficiency needs of teachers, to help make administrative tasks less onerous, and coverage of learning management systems, formative assessment sites, and planning tools; and professional development coverage that includes information on ISTE offerings, social media, and other supports. …