Monday, April 15, 2013

The Whole Child Requires Whole Tech — Whole Child Education

The Whole Child Requires Whole Tech — Whole Child Education:


Walter McKenzie

The Whole Child Requires Whole Tech

So you're actively working to implement the tenets of the Whole Child Initiative? Excellent! How about yourwhole tech initiative? What's your vision for technology in education? Not what you have in your inventory or what you're comfortable using: your action plan for technology empowering the whole child. Why? Because in today's world, technology is not an add-on or a nice-to-have; it's an essential array of tools that supports and energizes every Whole Child Tenet.
Through the ubiquitous use of technology, students can experience and internalize:
  • Healthy values, habits, and attitudes essential to working successfully online.
  • Safe practices for connecting, communicating, and collaborating with others virtually.
  • Engaging, meaningful learning embedded in their local and global communities.
  • Supportive, personalized learning that accommodates their unique needs and interests.
  • Challenging, higher-level learning that prepares them to realize their full potential as global citizens.
Technology in whole child schools is more than simply putting in place web portals and student information