Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works. Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences. Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks. Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions. Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world. Thus, third grade students may reinforce their understanding of weather patterns by recording the daily temperature in a spreadsheet and then graphing the data. Fourth graders may work with multimedia CD-ROMs to garner more information about world history, coordinate geometry, and mapping during their explorers unit.