DigitalCommons@USU – Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference: Integrating Technology and Innovation in Education

Integrating Technology and Innovation in Education

8-17-2016 12:00 AM

Using technology integration in education mustn’t focus primarily on the tools, even though tools are important to learn and use. It should focus on innovation! As educators, our center of attention must be about how we can use those tools to improve the way we teach, learn, and collaborate! How can we help our students… find their talents and be passionate, empowered learners? become great digital citizens? evaluate information for accuracy and truth, and become curators of knowledge? become innovators, designers, and computational thinkers? become creators of new knowledge and content? become global collaborators and better communicators? And, importantly, how can we become those ourselves, so we model what we want them to be?

Integrating Technology and Innovation in Education

Using technology integration in education mustn’t focus primarily on the tools, even though tools are important to learn and use. It should focus on innovation! As educators, our center of attention must be about how we can use those tools to improve the way we teach, learn, and collaborate! How can we help our students… find their talents and be passionate, empowered learners? become great digital citizens? evaluate information for accuracy and truth, and become curators of knowledge? become innovators, designers, and computational thinkers? become creators of new knowledge and content? become global collaborators and better communicators? And, importantly, how can we become those ourselves, so we model what we want them to be?