Technology can:

• • Provide opportunities for using 21st century skills across the content areas

  • Provide teachers an opportunity to understand student thinking more deeply

  • Provide a way to manage differentiated learning for students

  • Provide students a chance to show their learning in multiple ways through more voice and choice

  • Provide opportunities for students to become creators as well as consumers of technology

  • Provide authentic audiences for student work and connections to places outside the classroom

  • Provide opportunities to deepen understanding of concepts 

  • Provide an organized way of documenting growth over time

  • Provide families opportunities to more effectively partner with teachers/schools

PLD CUrricular Expectations

• Make learning visible

• Gather insight into student thinking 

• Begin to change the conversation around technology from consumption to creation

• Begin seeing technology as a tool to foster global connections and provide student access to the world outside of our school

• Make connections with families to help them better understand how their children are learning