Why Integrate Technology
by Trevor Kingsley
1. Global World & Workplace
2. Standards Include Technology
2.1. Links to other 21st-century skills such as problem solving, communication, media literacy and leadership are more fully developed in the model curriculum
2.2. Students apply skills by utilizing a variety of resources to construct theses and support or refute contentions made by others
2.3. Geographic representations and geospatial technologies are used to investigate, analyze and communicate the results of geographic problem solving.
2.4. Technological change has proven one of the few constants of the early 21st century, providing social studies educators with the challenge and opportunity of preparing digital citizens in a global setting
3. Different Types of Learners
3.1. Multiple Intelligences
3.2. Culture, Ethnicity, and languages
3.3. Autism
3.4. ADD/ ADHD
3.5. Intellectual and Learning Disabilities
3.6. Learning Styles
3.7. At Risk Students
3.8. Gifted and Talented Students
4. 21st Century Skills
4.1. Creativity & Innovation
4.2. Communication & Collaboration
4.3. Research and Information Literacy
4.4. Critical Thinking
4.5. Nonlinear Thinking
4.6. Visual literacy and Visual thinking
4.7. Spatial Thinking
4.8. Digital age reflection
