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Critical Issue: Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use

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Whether technology should be used in schools is no longer the issue in education. Instead, the current emphasis is ensuring that technology is used effectively to create new opportunities for learning and to promote student achievement. Therefore, professional development for teachers becomes the key issue in using technology to improve the quality of learning in the classroom.

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Whether technology should be used in schools is no longer the issue in education. Instead, the current emphasis is ensuring that technology is used effectively to create new opportunities for learning and to promote student achievement. Therefore, professional development for teachers becomes the key issue in using technology to improve the quality of learning in the classroom.
John Hardy