Which strategies are most effective for teaching and learning with technology?

It is at the point where technology should be applied in almost all of your lessons. It is being proven that students learn and understand the material that much more when they have the opportunity to use technology.
I have found that you can not go wrong when using technology as a learning resource. The only thing that can go wrong, is when you have your back to students and they play game or surf the web for material that they should be doing outside of class. The best thing to do is to set the classroom up so that all the students backs are facing you. That way you can always see what’s on their screens. I also believe that you should not always be so reliant on technology, as a health educator it is important to stress the importance of technology to their learning, but you need to also teach them that using technology is a problem. Being outside and being expanding your domains of health often does not include anything to do with technology. Technology is great for learning resources, but do not use it so much that the students are being taught to become to reliant on it.

How can you effectively integrate technology into your teaching and learning?

The best way to integrate technology into your learning is by allowing the students to do a majority of their learning through the use of technology. Like I said earlier, adolescents these days are so technology dependent, that is how they understand thing is through the use of it. Doing activities or research with technology is the best way for students to grasp the material.
During my three weeks at Madison, there were a few class that was spent using lap tops. I found the students were much more engaged in the material and discussion during those few class they used the internet as research, then the other classes. The students used myfoodguidepyramid.com; and they were in to the activities the website had and were excited about learning nutrition. Much more then in the previous week when they were just reading the chapters and discussing it the next class.

It is important that technology is implemented into the classroom now because of the

It is important that technology is implemented into the classroom now because of the growth it is taken in the real world. People are starting to rely on technology more and more, and because of this it is important that students are familiarized with it, and understand how they can use it as a learning tool. By the time the next generation becomes adult, most everything will have something to do with technology, so it is important that they get a base while they are in school.
I have found through my experiane that many students are so technology dependent, that they do not know what to do with out it. The world they are growing up in is far more advanced then what there parents grew up in, and to fit in with everyone else and to keep updated, they have become technology dependent. It also make’s their lives easier, as a lot of time is typically saved by using technology.