Chapter 2 - Empowering Students With Technology

Chapter 2 - Expanding Relationships

Today's students must learn how to work with people all over the world. Teaching students how to use technology tools is the easy part. As teachers we need to focus more on teaching students to be more information literate and communications literate. We need to teach students to develop global communications skills.

To prepare our students for future learning we need to go outside of our classrooms by using fax machines, video conferencing, e-mails to other cultures, using web cams, and creating websites. As we connect our students to other cultures with real world communications through technology we must teach our students to be sensitive to various components of the different cultures.