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Technology Integration

The Thoughtful Teacher’s Tech Integration Playbook

This collection of articles and videos offers teacher-tested advice on everything from setting up effective routines and choosing the right tools to knowing when to step back and unplug.

October 1, 2025

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Technology Integration

Managing Tech Integration in Your Classroom

It’s important for technology-influenced learning environments to encourage students to be active, collaborative, and engaged.

Sarah Schneider Kavanagh, Tess Bernhard
Technology Integration

How to Help Teachers Make Smart Edtech Choices

Having too many apps and tools to choose from can be stressful, and coaches can play a key role in reducing that stress.

Meredith Masar Boullion
Technology Integration

6 Tips From a Tech Coach and Teacher

Educators can balance innovative and traditional methods of teaching to mindfully include technology in the classroom.

Alicia Sewell
Technology Integration

A Powerful Model for Understanding Good Tech Integration

Good technology integration isn’t about using the fanciest tool, it’s about being aware of the range of options and picking the right strategy—or strategies—for the lesson at hand.

Youki Terada

Technology Integration

Classroom Management in the Tech Era

Before considering how to integrate tech in lessons, it’s important to ensure that you have clear expectations and routines in place.

Paige Tutt
Technology Integration

Why I Learned to Embrace Classroom Timers

Using a timer helps teachers ensure that they are making the most of their limited time with students.

Henry Seton
Technology Integration

5 Essential Tech Talks to Have With Students

To set the stage for successful student use of technology, start the year by discussing expectations around how tech like AI should and shouldn’t be used in your classroom.

Paige Tutt
Classroom Management

60-Second Strategy: Professional Courtesy

For anyone who’s ever wondered, “How do I get their attention back in a 1:1 environment?”

Technology Integration

The Tech Skills That ‘Digital Natives’ Are Missing—and How to Help

Students are growing up in a world filled with technology, but explicit instruction, support, and guidance are needed to help them use it in ways that meaningfully amplify their learning.

Paige Tutt
Technology Integration

A Strategy to Help Young Students Learn to Use Technology

Adding icons to a rubric can help early elementary students as they learn how to use tech tools in the classroom.

Debbie Tannenbaum
Technology Integration

A Gradual Release of Responsibility Over Student Devices

When faced with a tech problem, students often seek help immediately—passing the responsibility back to them can show them they’re less helpless than they think.

Shannon Engelbrecht
Technology Integration

Maintaining Classroom Devices for Effective Learning

A short check-in at the beginning and end of class can help teachers and students ensure that devices are functioning optimally.

Hedreich Nichols
Technology Integration

Tech Buddies: Building Technology Skills Through Peer Teaching

See the learning on both sides when fifth graders teach computer skills to first graders.

Technology Integration

9 Teacher-Tested Apps to Enhance Math Instruction

From interactive calculators to skill-building games, these digital tools can help make math more accessible and engaging for students.

Daniel Leonard
Technology Integration

10 Student-Tested Chrome Extensions

Many teachers and students use the popular browser, and it’s easy to customize with these extensions that really benefit students.

Kathryn Nieves
Technology Integration

7 Digital Tools That Help Bring History to Life

Challenging games, fun projects, and a healthy dose of AI tools round out our top picks for breathing new life into history lessons.

Daniel Leonard
Technology Integration

5 Teacher-Tested AI Tools for Beginners

Feeling curious about AI but overwhelmed by options? Edtech specialist Eric Curts cuts through the noise with five tools you can start using today.

Eric Curts

Technology Integration

A 4-Step Framework for Exploring AI on Your Own Terms

A no-pressure, thoughtful approach to AI exploration: You set the timeline, reflect honestly on what’s working, and let your practice guide the process.

Alana Winnick
ChatGPT & Generative AI

When Students Use AI in Ways They Shouldn’t

Here are some ways teachers can respond when students don’t follow classroom guidelines for using AI.

Jen Roberts
ChatGPT & Generative AI

AI Tutors Can Work—With the Right Guardrails

Research suggests that unrestricted AI use can hinder learning, but AI tutors designed to prompt and prod can be powerful teaching tools. Here’s how to create one.

Daniel Leonard
ChatGPT & Generative AI

Why I’m Banning Student AI Use This Year

Chanea Bond will ban AI this year to give her high school English students the opportunity to develop foundational skills that she believes the tech can hinder.

Andrew Boryga
Technology Integration

What a 30-Day Break From AI Taught Me About My Teaching

Using AI had become second nature for this educator. A month without the tools gave him an opportunity to pause, reflect, and recalibrate.

James Bedford
ChatGPT & Generative AI

Helping Students Navigate New Technology Responsibly

By giving students a safe way to explore using AI chatbots in the classroom, teachers can help them sharpen their digital literacy and critical thinking skills.
ChatGPT & Generative AI

How to Talk to Students About AI

Some are banning it, others embracing it—but every teacher should consider starting a classroom conversation about generative AI.

Technology Integration

The Importance of Teaching All Students About Tech Accessibility Features

Although many see accessibility features as solely for users with disabilities, a wide variety of students can benefit from them.

Tolulope Noah
Technology Integration

Mistakes I Used to Make in Digital Accessibility—and How to Fix Them

A former teacher shares how she unknowingly created digital content that was hard for students with disabilities to understand, and what to do instead.

Tolulope Noah
Special Education

Free Assistive Tech Tools That Support Academic Success

These no-cost resources provide tools that help students with disabilities achieve academic success.

Lusa Lo
Technology Integration

Easy Ways to Bring Assistive Technology Into Your Classroom

Free or low-cost tools can help all students—with and without learning differences—better access course content.

Jennifer Sullivan

Technology Integration

Guiding Students to Get Creative With Graphic Design Tools

The skills students develop designing anything from collages to brochures to demonstrate their learning will be useful in school, work, and personal life.

Mackensi Crenshaw
Technology Integration

Promoting Playful Learning With Technology

Mitchel Resnick—creator of Scratch and OctoStudio—shares how teachers can maximize students’ use of tech for creative purposes.

Daniel Leonard
Technology Integration

Getting Students to Use their Favorite Apps to Learn and Create

In schools, should we be empowering students to use their favorite digital tools to produce and engage with content? Research shows it can deliver surprising academic benefits.

Paige Tutt
Arts Integration

Teaching Students How to Make Movies to Document Their Learning

Using moviemaking as a form of engagement and assessment centers students’ voices.

Jessica Pack
Critical Thinking

Encouraging Exploration and Innovation in the Classroom

Small instructional shifts can guide students to use technology in ways that develop their critical thinking and creativity.

Rich Schiccatano

Technology Integration

How to Bring Computer Science to Your Elementary Classroom

Young students can learn to see themselves as creators through coding activities that spark curiosity and creativity.

Rich Schiccatano
Technology Integration

OctoStudio Teaches Children to Code by Tinkering

Giving children projects with low floors, high ceilings, and wide walls allows them to creatively explore the world around them.

Matthew Farber
Teaching Strategies

3 Low-Tech Ways to Teach Computer Science

If your school lacks the latest technology, your students can still learn computing through unplugged programming.

Allen Antoine
Technology Integration

How to Encourage Physical Computing in Elementary School

With simple coding options available, elementary school teachers can incorporate computer science across content areas.

Debra Jacoby

Technology Integration

Using Edtech in Service of Human Connections

Teachers and schools are reducing their reliance on digital tools to create more intentional and connected classroom experiences.

Andrew Boryga
Technology Integration

Overcoming Potential Risks of Student Tech Use

From social isolation to a mistaken belief that they can multitask, here are some of the risks that arise when students use digital tools—and what teachers can do to help.

Daniel Leonard
Technology Integration

Do I Need to Use Tech for That Lesson?

These tips for finding the right technology for your students, and knowing when to go screen free, can help support middle school students’ learning.

Kasey Short
Teacher Wellness

How to Set Better Boundaries With Technology

When teachers never get to unplug, their physical and mental health suffers. But school leaders can—and should—push back against always-on culture.

Technology Integration

Finding the Goldilocks Pace When Implementing Technology

Not too fast, not too slow: The speed at which we roll out tech in schools can make or break its use and sustainability in the long term.

T.J. Vari
Administration & Leadership

A 5-Step Plan for Encouraging Teachers to Implement Technology in Lessons

Making sure teachers are involved in implementing new technology can help them feel more comfortable with using it.

Victoria Thompson
Technology Integration

Teachers Want Hard Questions Asked Before Adding Tech

Districts can avoid common pitfalls in ed tech adoption by asking these critical questions before spending big money.

Andrew Boryga
ChatGPT & Generative AI

4 Simple Steps for Crafting a District AI Policy

School districts can create effective artificial intelligence policies that support academic honesty while embracing emerging technology.

Hedreich Nichols
ChatGPT & Generative AI

How School Leaders Can Pave the Way for Productive Use of AI

Leveraging technology to advance teaching and learning promotes a culture of inquiry at school.

Catlin Tucker

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