This means that students need to have the skills necessary to compete in America as well as all over the world. These skills include problem solving, critical thinking, cooperative exchange, and sensitivity to others who are different. Multimedia is one way that schools can achieve all of these skills.
Students solve problems as they learn to use the tools.
They use critical thinking skills to synthesize and communicate ideas in a fun and exciting format. They present what they have learned through research and discovery, using tools that are much more expressive than just text alone. In the process, they learned to better accept others within the class as well as from other cultures around the world. They also added to their skill of simple word processing the art of desktop publishing and multimedia production. During the first semester of the year, students were exposed to the art, stories, poetry, sculpture, dance, and crafts of as many different cultures in as many different time periods as possible.