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The Task

As part of the Virginia Initiative for Technology and Administrative Leadership, your school completed the TAGLIT survey. In the section about Teachers' Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning, you were a bit disappointed in your results. After all, your teachers have completed the TSIPs. Shouldn't a larger percentage be making an effort to use technology effectively? And what about that zero percent of natural users? That was a real surprise. Certainly someone must have found a way to integrate technology after all that professional development you've done!

After sharing the results with your faculty and talking about different ways they might increase the use of technology, your fourth grade science teacher comes to see you. She indicates that she is one of the people who is just beginning to use technology. While she is comfortable creating handouts in Word and using the Puzzlemaker website to create puzzles for her students, she just can't seem to figure out how to use technology with her students. She is willing to work with you to integrate technology into her weather unit. Together, she hopes the two of you can find instructional strategies that will incorporate technology and both motivate her students while increasing their learning.

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