Technology
Sacred Heart Cathedral School recognizes that the ability to utilize technology is an essential life skill.
Effective use of educational technology:
To accomplish these ends, all staff are entitled to and responsible for on-going training in educational technologies.
Effective use of educational technology:
- encourages and provides avenues for effective instruction;
- stimulates learning, builds self-confidence, and inspires creativity and self expression;
- permeates all areas of curricula and learning;
- enables teachers to customize the curriculum to accommodate a variety of learning styles and abilities;
- empowers students to access information which then must be analyzed, evaluated, and applied;
- fosters higher order thinking skills such as problem solving, the forming of value judgments, and critical thinking;
- encourages cooperation, communications, and collaboration between school, home, and the world community;
- extends learning beyond the walls of the classroom and beyond the school day.
To accomplish these ends, all staff are entitled to and responsible for on-going training in educational technologies.