Executive Functioning & Technology

Executive function skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. The technology listed below can help our students with the above mentioned executive functioning skills.

Click on the links below to access Executive Functioning supports:

Google Calendar: With Google Calendar, you can quickly schedule homework, events, break-down long term projects, and get reminders about upcoming activities, so you always know what’s next. Calendar is designed for teams, so it’s easy to share your schedule with others and create multiple calendars. This is helpful for temporal management.

Google Drive: Google Drive is a personal cloud storage service from Google that lets students store and synchronize digital content across computers, laptops and mobile devices, including Android-powered tablet and smartphone devices. This is especially helpful for material management.

Google Keep: Google Keep is a notetaking app that allows students to create notes, checklists and reminders using text, video and pictures. This could be used for time management, to-do lists, vocabulary and spelling lists, daily tasks, etc. And, of course, it integrates with Google Drive and Google Docs.