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Technology Integration
By Saleem Nazeer From (AKES,P)
Email: saleem_natha@hotmail.com
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What? And Why! The word Integration owns variety
of meanings itself but if we add ‘Technology’ before ‘Integration’ it means we
are trying to find out some better ways of using technology for meaningful and
its respectful development. Technology is not only making our life easy but it also helps us to do things in interactive and powerful ways. |
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Instead of asking, “Do we have computers in our schools?” we need to ask some productive question: “How technologies are helping us to understand the learning process and how it is helping our students to enhance there learning abilities and prepare them to face the world outside the school?”
There are many types of
technologies which we are using but some of the most effective
technologies are Interactive multimedia and telecommunication technologies
which can be used as powerful tools for learning and educational
improvement. Students are always keen learners and good observers they
love to play with different technological tools; they have the power to
explore things in a broader perspective using technology.
Using computers in computer lab for documentation and spreadsheets is not
integration; it is something beyond the classroom. Internet based
research, productive movies, creative magazines and generating meaningful
discussion using blogs and forums are some of the integration
possibilities. Our teachers are more focused towards classroom teaching,
rather then integration. They need to focus on how to use different
technological tools which can be helpful in teaching and how it will
enhance our students learning.