The goal of technology integration is to use technology seamlessly so that the technology itself becomes a transparent and integral tool to teach core curriculum.

When computers and software are used so that students have new methods of learning curriculum, these tools can promote and enhance students’ understanding of content in powerful ways. They can find information, collaborate with others and use images and sound as well as text to communicate what they have learned.

At the heart of educators’ work is instilling a love of learning in students. Those who enjoy learning and who know how to keep learning will be prepared for a future in which nothing is certain and the norm is change.

The pursuit of knowledge has never been as exciting as it is today. Computers, the Internet, accessibility to hundreds of thousands of databases all over the world, and the ability to learn in a mobile environment allow us all to participate in a new paradigm of technology-enabled education.

New technologies enhance our ability to create new ideas, make discoveries, prove our theories, test our knowledge and realize our dreams like never before. School districts will need Intelligent, connected, devices and environments and adaptive, pervasive IT infrastructures.

With them, schools can:

•    Offer a choice of learning styles and formats
•    Support lifelong learning
•    Enable mobility for more flexible learning
•    Empower collaboration for research and sharing of best practices
•    Build for ongoing change
•    Support digital content and services