Technology Infusion

Technology provides opportunities never before available and therefore should transform the learning environment for all school community members. Computer technology has come a long way. Computer programs are not as difficult to learn as they were a decade ago. Schools do not need to spend as much time teaching about computers as they did a decade ago. Instead, teachers and students can now take advantage of all computers have to offer in the learning process. Computers provide access to information around the world; they allow students to explore topics such as space travel and oceanography through sounds, images, and video; they allow students to easily graph and analyze numeric data; they allow students to present and receive information in "real time" from others; and much more. By placing computers right in the classrooms and designing curriculum tasks that allow students to use computers in the course of their learning, students are seeing the value of the computer as a tool in their lives.