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**Welcome to Mary Lynn's Wikispace!**
The focus of this Wiki is to help teachers integrate technology into their classroom. This wiki includes practical examples and tutorials. Technology in the classroom needs to fit. What works for one teacher, curriculum, set of students, will not necessarily work for another set. It is about the teacher (tech skills, teaching style, etc.), the curriculum (learning objectives, TIME, etc.), and the students (their tech skills, access to technology, etc.). All of these are factors when considering the use of technology in the classroom.

Before you start, all teachers should be familar with the Levels of Technology Integration.

The Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow described the levels as follows:


 * ** At the // entry // stage, teachers learn to master the new tools themselves and begin to plan how to use them in their class rooms**
 * **At the // adoption // stage, teachers begin to blend technology into their classroom practices, without making any significant changes to those practices. **
 * **At the // adaptation // stage, the new technology becomes thoroughly integrated into traditional classroom practices and teachers begin to see some real benefits in student learning and engagement. **
 * **At the // appropriation // stage, the teachers understand technology, use it effortlessly in their own work and in the classroom, and have difficulty imagining how they would function without it. **
 * **At the // invention // stage, teachers experiment with new instructional patterns and ways of relating to students and to other teachers enabled by the technology, resulting in significant changes in their classroom practices and professional lives. **


 * Teachers should also check out the** [|**LoTi Connection.**]

As teachers and students become more comfortable with using technology to learn, it will just become another tool.