Categories of Technology Infusion

The scaffold for learning was designed to support teachers in providing students with various resources to tackle the different aspects of the problem-based task at the center of a PBL. Because technology can be used in the classroom beyond the ways explicitly stated on the scaffold, this activity will guide you through some uses that you may not have considered before. One challenge of technology is that it rapidly changes so that by the time you learn a particular application, it has been replaced by another. Although certain applications may be named on MyQPortal, it is more important to focus on the capability and category rather than a specific application. Information Management is one of the earliest applications of technology in the classroom. The internet was first referred to in classrooms as "information at your fingertips." Calendars, spreadsheets, databases, address books, and word-processing documents fall into this category. Students can use techn