To implement technology in classrooms, schools must prepare front-line teachers. 6 Steps to Success in Teaching with Technology helps teachers learn about, adapt to, and embrace technology. 

Step 1: Understand Why - Before an educator can begin to incorporate technology effectively into her classroom, she must be a believer. Step 1 outlines the benefits of incorporating technology into teaching. 

Step 2: Adapt - Two adaptations must occur for success in teaching with technology. Teachers must adapt to technology, and technology must be adapted to teachers. 

Step 3: Plan - Having a good plan is a key to success. Step 3 prepares teachers for the Teaching with Technology world by reviewing important planning questions. 

Step 4: Do Your Homework - Before spending money, teachers need to understand technology options. Step 4 overviews the most popular hardware and software used in today’s classrooms. 

Step 5: Implement Effectively - Having the latest tools in your classroom may look impressive, but you must be able to use them to deliver quality lessons. Step 5 explains how to do this. 

Step 6: Keep Up to Date - Technology changes daily. Managing this moving target is a challenge for busy teachers. Step 6 shows teachers how to stay on top of the latest changes in educational technology. 

The Future - This text includes predictions on the future, suggestions for technology designed classrooms, and my confessional, “If I had to do it all over again.” 

6 Steps to Success is enhanced by our website MrKent.Net – Education Technology Made Simple that is designed to continue to give teachers a resource for implementing technology in their schools. To further help teachers we are developing the Ontario Elementary Teachers Guide to Technology in the Classroom that can be used by schools throughout Ontario to better prepare their teachers to teach with technology.

Yours in Education Technology,

Lucas Kent