Defining Areas of Student Achievement: • Mastering fundamental skills • Becoming proficient users of technology • Preparing students with 21^st century skills • Motivating students to higher levels of achievement

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The Impact of Technology on Student Achievement:

• Students, especially those with few advantages in life, learn basic skills — reading, writing, and arithmetic — better and faster if they have a chance to practice those skills using technology.

• Technology engages students, and as a result they spend more time on basic learning tasks than students who use a more traditional approach.

• Technology offers educators a way to individualize curriculum and customize it to the needs of individual students so all children can achieve their potential.

• Students who have the opportunity to use technology to acquire and organize information show a higher level of comprehension and a greater likelihood of using what they learn later in their lives.

• By giving students access to a broader range of resources and technologies, students can use a variety of communication media to express their ideas more clearly and powerfully.

• Technology can decrease absenteeism, lower dropout rates, and motivate more students to continue on to college.

• Students who regularly use technology take more pride in their work, have greater confidence in their abilities, and develop higher levels of self-esteem.

Related Links:

Does it Compute? The Relationship Between Educational Technology and Student Achievement in Mathematics, by Harold Wenglinsky, Sept. 1998 http://www.ets.org/research/pic/pir.html CEO Forum on Education & Technology: Forum Reports and STaR Charts http://www.ceoforum.org Computer-Based Technology and Learning: Evolving uses and Expectations By Gilbert Valdez, et al (NCREL) http://www.ncrel.org/tplan/cbtl/toc.htm

Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) Teaching, Learning & Technology ~ A Report on 10 Years of ACOT Research ~ http://www.apple.com/education/k12/leadershipo/acot Summary of Research Findings: The Impact of Technology on Student Achievement http://www.apple.com/education/research/ Profiles in Success: 1 to 1 Learning http://www.apple.com/education/mobilecomputing/ profiles_onetoone.html