Integrating technology into teaching

• Technology is a central part in our everyday lives now. Todays students love technology, they use it all the time, they will be interested and engaged in learning if they use the tool they love.
• Technology has advanced rapidly in education, nowadays technology incorporates on the content as well as on how we teach it. The knowledge domain, the knowledge of your content must intersects with technology for an innovative teaching and learning to occur. Technology integration to classroom can done by allowing students to conduct research online for various projects to increase student motivation also to let them be more engaged within the learning activity, also by  through gamifying the learning process to grasp student's attention to follow on while having fun and learning at the same time.

• Impact of introducing education technology in classroom is remarkable, it's benefits are recognized as follows:

1. Improves effective collaboration and building team spirit among students when working on group projects that boost their productivity, capacity and performance. For example when our Doctor Amal Farhat had grouped us to conduct an activity on google forms representing ISTE standards for students, more ideas are shared between us also combining variety of skills to tackle more complex problems.
2. Introduce a fun way of learning which ensures that students interact in class while also completing learning objectives. For example the usage of Akelius app, which is designed to practice and master English tasks while having the highest score that leads to better knowledge retention not just gaining knowledge.
3. Encourages interactive learning between student and the teacher, which make students more interested in learning the subject and also encouraged them to actively participate in the classroom. Also helps teachers to monitor the progress of their students and to identify where students require additional help.