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. From the National Educational Technology Standards Technology is integrated into these activities through the uses of the web and CD-ROM for research. It may be integrated into the presentations and portfolios of the students. Keep in mind that technology is also presented as content in this unit, with the changes in technology during the period and how they altered both the larger social landscape and the particular work of the Tirocchi family.