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    Educational Technology

    Outdated Tech: How to Know When It’s Time to Upgrade

    Most administrators and decision-making educators have come to understand how imperative it is to keep up with the most current technology trends and to upgrade their outdated tech when possible. Change happens constantly in every facet of technology, and students and their parents are aware and expect schools to keep up.

    Why It’s Important to Keep School Technology Current

    There are practical reasons to monitor the age and relevance of your technology. These include keeping your students intellectually engaged, competitive, globally-connected, and socially aware. It also helps to keep your own school district’s interests in mind to keep your constituents, school board, and the community at large satisfied in an increasingly results-driven world.

    Taking advantage of the knowledge from school IT support, educators, and administrative staff will be an important part of maintaining and regularly updating outdated tech tools. However, there are some key factors involved in building the right mindset when it comes to staying up-to-date in the tech world.

    Embrace Technology to Engage Students

    Items that students can use as distractions can add frustration for educators. Teachers often fear spending hours of valuable time just trying to maintain student attention. Personal devices can become a problem. However, with the right approach, educators can create a manageable tech and tablet-friendly teaching environment. By changing the classroom set-up and learning environment to make it more interactive, students are likely to be more engaged.

    Read More: The Benefits of Using Gamification in the Classroom

    Keep Audio-Visual Equipment Current

    With audio requirements for language arts assessments in common core testing, providing your students with quality audio tools helps give them a boost in preparation and confidence when heading into the testing season. You can find many high-quality listening centers and headphones to replace outdated models.

    Shop Califone Audio-Video Equipment

    Create a 21st Century Learning Environment

    Of course, simply adding a few tablets to the classrooms and removing “no cellphones” policies is a start. But truly updating the learning environment is a big task. Students today need to build modern skills. Adopting technology, promoting collaborative work environments, and learning time management skills are all key parts of that process. Read more about the future of the educational space and what other schools are doing to update their learning environment.

    Learn More About 21st Century Learning Environments

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