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Lindsey Johnson Technology in Education Article Blog #1 Date: September 22nd, 2009  __“Technology Integration Made Easy” __    When reading this article I really liked how they stressed that technology should be integrated into all subject matter to promote and extend students technology skills on a daily basis. We need to use technology carefully, not to take away time from studies but to extend understanding and knowledge about certain subject areas. Technology in the classroom can be helpful in a number of different ways. It can help the students as well as the teachers. It is an easy way to attain information easily and in a timely manner. This article stated many ways to incorporate technology in the classroom. They also give the information needed to use these objectives in your classroom using Education World. Here are some summaries that this article suggested for uses in the classroom · Use online weather sources · Use URL’s · Use different language postings · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Use online math problems <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Use online dictionaries <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Use spelling websites <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Look up history <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Online worksheets <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Online SAT practice <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Online reading comprehension practice <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">These are just a few ways stated in this article to beef up your daily lessons and to help your students to better understand. Using technology in the classroom is very useful. It provides many different ways of learning. It opens a whole new world for thought. Education World has given us as future teachers a new way to provide our student with valuable knowledge. Without the proper training with the use of technology it main be very hard to attain the skills needed to achieve with our students. Education World is an easy way to integrate different subjects in a whole new light. Student will have fun when doing homework. This in future will make them remember more of the learning. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I like this article because I am very interested in the new way of enhancing the children’s thinking ability. When using things like Education world we will connect with our students on a different level; providing them with new ways of learning and giving them subjects that may interest them. Therefore, having a more students with a higher success rate. Technology is a fun way for students to interact with the world around them, and also provides them with interesting topics of interest. I think that the use of technology in schools will help the students and teachers to interact with one another and give them opportunities for an organized way of thinking. This will also provide them for useful skills in their future. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lincoln, G. (2002). The online school. __Electronic Learning__. 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