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This course provides opportunities for participants to explore integration of technology within the K-16 classroom environment. First, students will examine barriers to technology integration in the K-16 context with implications for professional development. Students will examine theoretical perspectives and research to investigate the advantages and challenges of effectively integrating technology to support learning. Specifically, students will be engaged in critically examining “evaluation practices” related to effective application of digital technology in the classroom from an informed theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical perspectives. Examples from research that examines evaluation practices can be related to classroom connectivity technology, mobile technologies, one-to-one computing, and video use. Participants will also be engaged in considering measurement to examine the effectiveness of the technology integration in instruction and gauge the capacity of their school organization in implementing digital age technology successfully. Participants draw upon relevant instructional theories, conceptual frameworks, and effective best practices as criteria for selection, implementation, and integration of technology.