Why Integrate Technology

1. Multiple Intelligences

2. Standards That Include Technology

2.1. Use technology to compare classroom data to local data, study weather events, communicate and share data with other classrooms, and record classroom data.

2.1.1. With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

2.2. Technology can be used to analyze and compare test results, connect to other classrooms to compare data or share samples, and document the findings.

2.2.1. technology also can be used to find photographs and stories or take photographs of living things in Ohio.

3. Different types of learners

3.1. Culture, Ethnicity, and Language

3.2. Autism

3.3. ADD/ADHD

3.4. Intellectual and learning disabilities

3.5. Learning style

3.6. Students at risk and gifted and talented

3.7. physical disabilites

4. 21st Century Skills

4.1. creativity and innovation

4.2. communiction and collaboration

4.3. research and information literacy

4.4. critical thinking

4.5. non-linear thinking

4.6. visual literacy and visual thinking

4.7. spatial thinking

4.8. digital-age reflection

5. Global World and Workplace