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Technology integration is extremely important in modern education. Students need to learn technology literacy to be able to be well rounded students and as future adults in the job market. Technology is not going anywhere, in fact, if anything it will just continue to grow and become larger parts of future jobs and lifestyles. Project Tomorrow          Project Tomorrow is an organization that has a research project, Speak Up , that provides an annual report of the data from all stakeholders about technology use in education. Project Tomorrow is a free national research project that can be used by school and districts. The report advocates for student voices while also providing educators with helpful information about technology integration in schools. Here is the first page from the 2023-2024 Speak Up findings. Image Source: Project Tomorrow Speak Up          Something that stands out to me, but doesn't necessarily surprise me, is the a...

If you work in education, you likely know that active learning is the best way to get your students actively involved in their learning. If you don't here is a great explanation for active learning from   Teaching and Learning in Higher Education ; "Active learning is an approach to instruction that involves actively engaging students with the course material through discussions, problem solving, case studies, role plays and other methods. Active learning approaches place a greater degree of responsibility on the learner than passive approaches such as lectures, but instructor guidance is still crucial in the active learning classroom. Active learning activities may range in length from a couple of minutes to whole class sessions or may take place over multiple class sessions". Active learning is along the same lines as project-based learning but not every school has the ability to jump right into project-based learning. Basically, actively learning means that the more in...