No matter what the curriculum or level of involvement, computers serve as educational tools that can bring relevance, deeper understanding, and connections to students. Most educators share common principles that students should practice critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, analytical reading skills, and social justice and feel that integrating the curriculum will bring a level of relevance to student work that will encourage a higher level of scholarship and participation. Computer technology is a tool that opens doors, opportunities, and connections they only dreamed of before. Teachers can add this new dimension to their instructional models without drastically altering their current practices. The key to developing integrated teaching units is collaboration.
Collaborative projects promote many interesting connections.
These units offer opportunities to go outside the school walls. You could find yourself developing partnerships with scholars in your community, people in distant communities, business experts, scientists in laboratories around the world, and many more. When setting up collaborative projects, clearly develop objectives and desired outcomes. Carefully craft the support team you, the teacher, will need to successfully accomplish your goals. The idea is to offer a learning environment in which the students have the technical and academic support they need and that it is reasonably accessible.