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Teaching with Technology for Elementary Educators

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Teaching with Technology for Elementary Educators 

Presented by: 

Elaina Daniels, Stockton School District

Tips for Encouraging Teacher Technology Use
 Robin Smith, an educational technology specialist for the Hollidaysburg (Pennsylvania) Area School District, offers this advice for those encouraging technology use among their school's staff:

* Get support from the top. If your superintendent does not support the push to use technology, and does not use technology himself or herself, it is a hard sell to other employees.

* Make sure you are pushing the district vision and not your own personal agenda.

* Principals need to use technology and support their teachers with extra staff development if necessary.

* Expect bumps in the road. Some things you expect to be a huge success at getting teachers hooked, end up flopping.

* Provide some sort of incentives.

* Show them how it will save time. If the savings won't be apparent for a year, be honest about that. Putting assignments into a grade book program is extra work, but if those assignments can be saved and used next year, it will be a time saver.

* Remember, most teachers are very busy; they're already juggling many tasks. Try to make things as easy as possible, and provide them with time to learn the technology before expecting them to use it.