Using a Technology Integration Content Plan to Align Course Components for Enhanced Student Learning

Presenter Information

Melony Shemberger, Murray State UniversityFollow

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

In education, students simply consuming technology is not sufficient. Rather, we as educators want students to become effective producers of technology. That takes planning. Writing a plan that integrates the right technology to align with course components can assist instructors to design lessons that would encourage and challenge students cognitively. In this article, instructors are guided on constructing lessons that comprise a unit in which a lesson has a technology anchor. A list of free or less expensive tech tools that instructors and students could use is also available.

Author Biography

Dr. Melony Shemberger is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at Murray State University. Her primary research interests include media history and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Before entering academia, Shemberger had a successful, award-winning reporting career, specializing in the education beat. Shemberger has a bachelor’s degree from Western Kentucky University, where she double majored in mass communication, and history and government; a master’s in mass communication from Murray State; a master’s in management from Austin Peay State University; and a doctorate in administration and supervision, with a concentration in higher education, from Tennessee State University. She is scheduled to receive a master’s in instructional systems design at the University of Kentucky.

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