DePaul Straub

Diverse Learners
7th Period
Annotated Bibliography

Alliance for Excellent Education. (2014). Technology can Close Achievement Gaps, Improve
learning. Retrieved from https://ed.stanford.edu/news/technology-can-close-achievement-gapsand-improve-learning-outcomes
This article outlines the basic idea of introducing technology into schools. It also
highlights some of the arguments for why technology is improving student performance and
transforming the way we see education as a whole. The article goes into depth about how schools
can implement technology into their classrooms effectively, ensuring that the change is being
used and is worth the cost. It encourages districts to look at what they want to do with the
technology before going out, purchasing, and installing the new classroom technologies in their
schools. This article provides a basis for implementation which can be helpful for a latter part of
my paper.

Commerce Notes. (2014). Great Benefits of Technology in Education. Retrieved from

http://commercenotes.com/benefits-of-technology-in-education/
This article provides a good overview of how technology benefits the classroom
environment. It ranges from increased easiness in teaching, popularity of learning, and the ability

for students to enjoy the content of the class. This article serves as a good starting place for
research into various aspects of classroom technology, but it lacks statistics, making it almost
unusable for my question of whether or not the technology is working. This article will however,
give me ideas from which I can jump off of as I begin to explore other topics.

Commerce Notes. (2014). Use of Tablet PC Technology in the Classroom. Retrieved from
http://commercenotes.com/use-of-tablet-pc-technology-in-classroom/
This article provides a sound argument for technology, specifically tablets, in the
classroom. It discusses how having programs such as the one to one tablet initiatives help
students achieve more in the classroom and are allowing for learning never before seen. It also
goes into the abilities of the tablets and the cost factor of them, allowing for a fuller picture of
what the tablets can do. This article will be particularly helpful to me as I look at specific
technologies available for classroom use.

De Abreu, B. (2010). Changing Technology= Empowering Students through Media Literacy

Education. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ966657.pdf
This article takes an in depth look at how the importance of media literacy is affecting
todays educational system. It argues that students should ultimately have a large role in their
own education, a problem likely to be solved by increased technology in the classroom. It also
highlights some of the educational technologies readily available to be placed into todays
classrooms. This article could prove to be important to me if I decide to take my topic in relation
to some other problems in our country today.

Dunn, J. (2015). This is the Past, Present, and Future of Education Technology. Retrieved from
http://dailygenius.com/past-present-future-of-education-technology/
This article gives very detailed yet easy to read view of how technology in classrooms
has changed over time. It gives specific dates for the introductions of specific technologies as
well as timelines and other facts for the introduction of such elements. This will be extremely
useful for showing how technology has developed over time. I can also use this to help predict
where technology will go in the future and how that would affect our classrooms as well.

Grinager, H. (2006). How Education Technology Leads to Improved Student Achievement.

Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/portals/1/documents/educ/item013161.pdf
This article is a very in-depth one in that it outlines many aspects of the increased
technology in 21st century classrooms. That being said, some of the information is a little
outdated, but the majority remains relevant to my topic. This article also looks into some topics
that many of my other resources do not, providing me with even more subtopic ideas for my
paper. This article will be relevant to my paper as I can take some of the statistics from this and
either compare them to newer ones or use them as is.

Mack, J. (2011). Does Classroom Technology Improve Student Achievement. Retrieved from
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/03/column_does_classroom_tecnolo.ht
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This article is good for looking at the information statistically. It goes into how much
money we are specifically putting into educational technology. It also looks at whether or not this
technology is affective at the job we want it to do: mainly, improve test scores and overall
student performance. This article will be especially helpful as I look into the pros and cons of
increase classroom technologies in our schools and individual classrooms.

Open Colleges (Author). (2012). Components of a 21st Century Classroom. Retrieved 2015, from
https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/oca3-prod/media/21st_century_classroom.jpg
This info graphic is really helpful in the statistics side of things. It offers very specific
stats on a wide variety of technologies used in classrooms as well as their effect on both students
and teachers. It also includes a list of sources at the bottom of the picture which I can use to look
up even more additional statistics for my topic. This picture will be extremely helpful to me
because of its relevancy as well as the additional sources it provides.

Pearson Foundation (Producer). (2012). The Four Cs: Making 21st Century Education Happen.
Available from www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghx0vd1oEzM

This video goes over what Pearson finds to be the Four Cs of a 21st century education:
Critical thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. The video establishes what
schools and school districts can do to ease the transition into a 21st century style of learning.
They provide example systems that encourage districts to look into what they need to do to
develop their students as learners, as well as what students can do to further their own education.
This is helpful for my paper because it provides me with examples of how to fix school systems
that are not on a 21st century learning era or how to enhance districts that already are.

SMART Technologies (Producer). (2011). The History of Technology in Education. Available

from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwWWsz_X9s
This short video is produced by SMART technologies, a company that creates various
technologies for educational use. They provide us with a brief timeline of how technology has
evolved over time. This will give me a better historical perspective on how the system has
changed already, as well as in what ways the system will continue to change into the future.