Integrating Information Technology Applications in the classroom helps students understand the world around them, the same world they will enter after high school graduation. As technological advances increase seemingly more rapidly, and as classrooms have become more resemblant of 21st-Century workplaces, IT can also take on some of the modules learned here, such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving and technical experience. One unique thought is that IT application can also help foster collaboration between students and instructors.
Through my own experience in teaching technology such as web development, app prototype development and basics of A.I., I learned that youth students are very tech savvy, or at least more tech savvy than adults can realize. The goal was to help inspire the students to have the courage and enthusiasm to create and innovate in technology as creators, rather than just be consumers or users. Even as schools and districts implement new software and technology, this can create an opportunity for instructors and students to learn and work together using the technology. Thus providing yet another avenue to have CTE be a premiere vehicle for hands-on learning, technical experience and gaining of employable skills.
