Oklahoma Technology Association

We would never be asked to provide evidence that we use a pencil throughout the curriculum, it is just accepted that we do because it is an everyday tool. Technology is an everyday tool to our students and teachers. Students use their iPads or Chromebooks, iPads for Pre-K and Kindergarten and Chromebooks for first through twelfth, for assessment in... all core subject areas, then use data from the assessments to direct their learning. Students use technology in the classroom to do research, store information, and produce content. Students also use their technology outside the classroom to listen to music, order lunch and interact with peers (many times while sitting at the same table). The students not only use technology throughout the curriculum they use technology throughout life. Traditionally we think of curriculum as the core subjects of math, language arts, social science, and science. HPS student also use technology to produce art that only resided in their minds or capture art existing in the space around them. In the time it takes a referee to blow a play dead, our players can come to the sidelines and see the previous play on the assistant coaches iPad and make a game time adjustment. Students in agriculture education use technology to connect their designs to a plasma cam and build products for industry, farming, and pleasure.Read More