Technology and the Common Core
“Students employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language use. They tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently, and they integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline. They are familiar with the strengths and limitations of various technological tools and mediums and can select and use those best suited to their communication goals.”
~Common Core State Standards Initiative
~Common Core State Standards Initiative
You are here . . . So you get it
There are many benefits of using instructional technology in the classroom.
- Common Core State Standards call for all students to learn skills through technology and media
- Assignments are student-centered and engaging
- Instructional technology offers teachers a way to customize and personalize learning to student interests
- Instructional technology is exciting, interesting and intrinsically motivating to students
- Instructional technology aids the teacher in diagnosing and accommodating individual student strengths, needs and interests
- Instructional technology allows students to demonstrate critical and creative thinking
- Instructional technology enables students to develop innovative products that provide a means of ongoing, high-quality feedback from both peers and teachers
- Experience with instructional technology, as well as the Internet, equips students with skills necessary for college, work and life in the 21st Century
- Produce and Publish Writing
- Research
- Analysis
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Critical Media Literacy
- Creativity
- Interaction and Collaboration
- Production and Presentation with Digital Media
- Data Management
- Communication
Instructional Technology that Mirrors the Workplace
"When technology mirrors how professionals use it in the workplace it can enhance academic achievement, civic engagement, acquisition of leadership skills, and personal/social development."
~The Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2011