Affordances of Technology

Some of the reasons to integrate Technology in our Classrooms

The ability to reach multiple intelligences - The more ways we can teach a lesson and reach our learners the better. Using Technology in our classrooms affords us with the ability to teach to our visual, kinesthetic and audio learners - the theory validates educators' everyday experience: students think and learn in many different ways. It also provides educators with a conceptual framework for organizing and reflecting on curriculum assessment and pedagogical practices. In turn, this reflection has led many educators to develop new approaches that might better meet the needs of the range of learners in their classrooms. (Howard Gardner)