Technology Standards Blog

After reviewing the state technology standards, I believe our school is meeting these requirements with the help of every department. One area our social studies department contributes to reaching these state standards is the use of our mobile lab and comparing and contrasting how technology changes society. In my world geography class, I have students do some reasearch on underdeveloped, developing, and developed countries and their use of technology. The students find after reading a few short articles and interperting some graphs that the more developed the country is the higher usage of technology their citizens use. From education, to business, to agriculture, the students learn that technology is becoming just as important as natural resources. In other classes such as business, I know they hit a lot of the standards. Such as internet job searches, online surveys, and using business week online. The only standard I question whether or not we meet is analyzing the intended and unintended impacts of a system. I know we would hit the intended part with discussions of technology use by various countries and the impact it has had on changing their soceity, but I am unaware of anyone discussing the unintended part. That is something I will have to research.

Overall I think we are doing a fairly good job as a school to meet the growing technological needs of our students.