Based on Chamberlain’s experience,technology integration is highly important task in which the principal is involved and excited about technology, modeling technology use the key if administrators and staff use this vital technology integration.
In this article, John Simeone, Webmaster at Beach Street Middle School in West Islip, New York,stated staff members are more apt to use technology if administrators feel strongly about technology use for reasons that are based in fact.
Marcia Reed stated “Administrators need to model, model, model,” media center coordinator at St. Pius X School in Toledo, Ohio. Administrators can use technology with a high block software so students won’t have access to wrong websites in class. For instance, access to wrong websites as video games, bullies and not related to integration of technology in education.
Based on this information gathered in the education world.com, classrooms in national systems of education does not always correlate to success in test scores or rankings. It might be four negative aspects to positive benefits of ICT integration in classrooms include: educator attitudes and beliefs, school resources, teacher ICT knowledge and skills and institutional factors.
Educator Attitudes and Beliefs. In US teachers approximately 25% from a representative sample choose not to integrate any technology into their classroom, suggesting that many educators may not believe that ICT integration is essential to help student achievement (Gates Foundation, 2015). This determination is not without warrant: a recent report (2015) asserted that school technology has raised too many false hopes as national investment in school computers and classroom technology does not correlated to performance on student’s assessments. Although computers can benefit with a safe block software to make it sure that students can use technology for class and not to get into games.There are pro and cons on using technology but it is vital for projects, work, assignments,etc.
I do agree that integration of technology is important for assessments for student’s testing, also to use IPads, laptop, smartphone,etc but it is also risky while teacher is in the classroom and there isn’t a software that is able to block video games, social media while teachers are in a lecture time or student’s focus is not there at all. It can be distracting.
Work cited:
www.theeducationpartners.com
The promise of technology of integration in schools.(The education partners 2017).
U.S. Department of Education, Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2014 – 2018, (2013) http://www2.ed.gov/about/reports/strat/plan2014-18/strategic-plan.pdf.
3 American Association of School Administrators, Consortium for School Networking, and National School Boards Association. Leading the digital leap. Retrieved from http://leaddigitalleap.org.