8)+Technology+Integration



__Technology Integration __ The integration of technology in the classroom should enhance the traditional teaching tools and strategies already in use. Technology is used to further understanding of the curriculum and provides opportunities to participate in global learning environments. Student use of technology outside of the classroom can be brought inside the classroom so that students do not feel that what they learn in school is irrelevant in the real world.

Teacher-librarians can display the use of technology when promoting books by adding Shelfari to their school or library website. Literature circle discussions that would regularly occur face-to-face in a classroom could occur online as well through a blog or wiki. This would allow for students to participate with other students in their schools or even elsewhere in the world as they further their comprehension of the novels they read. Teacher-librarians are able to model the use of technology with students and classroom teachers through inquiry projects. They are also able to collaborate with teachers to develop other ways in which to enhance student learning in the classroom through the use of technology. “Used in the context of intelligent decisions about other aspects of education, technology enables learning to be limited by only one thing – imagination.” (Hawkins, 1997)