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Identify and describe specific best practice for the use of technology for student learning, whether it is already taking place at your school or something you are looking to support your teachers with. How does it connect to a culture for learning or the core instructional model? I think that the most logical move in tech integration for our school would be to adopt the school wide use of one of the learning management sites such as schoology, moodle, edmodo. This step would begin the conversion of our school from the older method of teaching to blended learning. When I finally jumped into edmodo, I began to understand the importance of having this type of system to help communicate with our digital natives. Besides helping to manage a variety of functions both in and outside of class, students love it. The benefits are many, from offering centralized learning, tracking and reporting features, on line assessments, and of course simplifying the learning process. When all the classes have converted over to a learning management site, I anticipate the culture for learning will begin to move in the direction of additional tech integration. Learning management sites give teachers more tools to help them to guide instruction and thus students will have more interesting and challenging learning opportunities. Additionally, our digital immigrants will better able to communicate with the digital natives. So this is my goal, to teach our teachers the system before summer begins so we all can come back this fall benefitting right away from the shift in the culture of learning to the Blended Learning program with technology and the Core Instructional Model. These are steps we can take to make the learning environment more student centered and learning more successful for both teachers and students.
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