ADVANTAGES OF USING TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING

- Technology can facilitate constructivist teaching and learning!
- Technology can be used to individually differentiate instruction for each student!

- Technology provides unprecedented access to Information.
- Technology provides unprecedented opportunities to publish information
- Technology provides unprecedented opportunities to communicate.

- Technology can facilitate real-world problem solving... and production.
- Technology can make learning active and interactive.
- Technology can engage multiple intelligences and multiple learning modalities.
- Technology can be very motivating.

- Technology provides unprecedented opportunities to play and create games.
- Technology provides unprecedented opportunities to use and create simulations.
- Technology provides unprecedented opportunities for roll playing.
- Technology provides unprecedented opportunities for learning ethics.

- Technology can facilitate the acquisition of important 21st Century Skills such as:
- Digital Literacies
Basic Literacy
Scientific Literacy
Economic Literacy
Technological Literacy
Visual Literacy
Information Literacy
Multicultural Literacy
Global Awareness
- Inventive Thinking
Adaptability and Managing Complexity
Self-Direction
Curiosity
Creativity
Risk Taking
Higher-Order Thinking and Sound Reasoning
- Effective Communication
Teaming and Collaboration
Interpersonal Skills
Personal Responsibility
Social and Civic Responsibility
Interactive Communication
- High Productivity
Prioritizing, Planning, and Managing for Results
Effective Use of Real-World Tools
Ability to Produce Relevant, High-Quality Products

- Technology can help teachers to speak the language of the "Digital Natives."**
- Technology can help teachers be facilitators and learners be doers.. or experts
- Technology can help facilitate teachers' personal and professional productivity
- Technology can provide digital records and portfolios.
- Technology can make information malleable.
- Technology can make anywhere anytime learning more powerful than ever before.