Home II Current Use II Future II Hazen II School 2.0 II Technology Tool II Why use Technology


Why do we need to use technology?
- We need to use technology to enhance student mastery of our curriculum.
- so that students can learn how to gain knowledge on their own and share what they discover
- to foster communication and collaboration
- to perform tasks more easily, more effectively and more efficiently
- to teach current generation of digital learners
- to ease other cognitive demands placed upon learners
- Pivotal that technology is not taught in isolation to learn specific applications, but to move students to higher level of learning
- transfer of skills to new situations

  • 21st century skills require the use of technology. Students need to be productive members of the 21st century society.
  • Technology is ubiquitous, you can't ignore it.
  • Technology (the Internet, specifically) provides access to an almost infinite amount of information on absolutely anything that anyone would want to know. Why wouldn't you want kids to use it?