How to Integrate Technology in Education

This is one of my favourite and controversial isssues relating to tech-integration in the classroom, sort of a long standing hobbyhorse for me.

In one of the webs (for educators) I follow I found quite by chance this neat chart below, a bit disturbing if you have never considered the issue but quite stimulating and thought-provoking if you are one of those techy teachers your colleagues call simply techy-geeks.

You can read another interesting post about the proper role of education technology states  that basically technology is a tool and that it’s all about what you do with it, not all the bells and whistles you see in an advertisement (....)Professor Chris Hoadley outlines many things. One of the key takeaways is that there are 3 laws of education technology:

Law 1: It's not the technology. It's what you do with it.

Law 2: It's not what the technology makes possible. It's what technology makes easy.

Law 3: Pay attention to the trends in learning, not in technology.

Last but not least I would also like to recommend this post here, it makes quite a few interesting reflections about teachers' obligation to integrate technology into their classes. Written by  @pernilleripp.
I copy here just one of Pernille's great reflections on the topic, I couldn't agree more.

It Is Not About the Gadgets - Why Every Teacher Should Have to Integrate Tech Into Their Classroom

• Some teachers feel that integrating technology is optional.  Integrating technology is no more optional than teaching how to use a pencil.  And while many may find that extreme, we cannot equip our students with the skills they need to be successful learners and teachers without teaching them to use technology properly.  Many schools see typing as a necessity but then cannot bring that view into how to stay safe on the internet, how to search properly on a computer and myriads of other things that technology can offer us.  How to use computers effectively is now a life-skill and as teachers it is our job to equip students with these.