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Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many | Edutopia

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2¢ Worth » If “It’s not about the technology,” then What is it about?

Even when we focus on content, which we ought to be doing most of the time, we are effected by technology. There is almost no academic content divorced of some form of technology. All of our academic content either explains, progresses, responds, or utilizes technology in all subject areas.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | US to back 21st century learning

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The US Congress has given the go-ahead for a new centre to explore ways advanced computer and communications technologies can improve learning.
American businesses know that they need a well-educated workforce to face growing competition from China, India and Europe.
People assumed that the explosion of innovation in information tools in business and service industries would automatically move into classrooms.
Education is falling further and further behind the rest of the economy and we have to rethink our basic approach to helping people learn,
learning scientists and educators have known for years that people learn faster if education can be personalised and if students are motivated by seeing how their knowledge can help them solve problems they care about.
oday's generation is very comfortable with using tools like iPods and computers and gaming, but when they go into the classroom none of that is there and there is this sense of an opportunity we are just not grasping,
centre will concentrate on understanding how to use technology to help everyone learn in a more effective and interesting way that makes that knowledge stick.