Deepen and enhance the learning process
The use of technology in the classroom is transforming the way teachers teach and the way students learn. Integrated into a standards-based curriculum, it helps to personalize instruction, address a wide variety of learning styles and empower students with tools to aid understanding and communicate their best thinking. Technology also allows routine tasks to be completed much more efficiently, allowing students to spend more time in the application of knowledge and higher order thinking. It not only makes for a more engaging learning environment, but also results in improved performance across the board.
“Open-ended productivity tools such as word processing, spreadsheet, database, graphics, digital referencing and digital publishing software are the 21st century tools used in today’s world of work. In order to remain relevant, educational systems must integrate these information and communication technology tools to help students develop a deeper understanding of core subjects, lifelong learning habits, and these new 21st century skills.” – Amelia Marurizio
TechSteps is a proven technology literacy curriculum that engages and motivates students to construct core academic knowledge while also facilitating the development of technology and information skills in a manner that is both integrated and systematic. Designed to be fully integrated into core standards-based instruction, each rigorous and relevant project systematically develops technology literacy and 21st Century skills to significantly deepen and enhance the learning process.
TechSteps provides technology integration activities which guide students in using open-ended, real-world applications to solve meaningful challenges. Each classroom-ready activity presents a meaningful Math, Science, Language Arts, or Social Studies challenge, and then guides students in using real-world tools and applications to think, gather, analyze and create authentic information products. Every challenge is carefully planned, managed, and assessed to increase each student’s capacity to learn through solving real-world problems, communicating and collaborating with others and to demonstrate creativity and innovation.
