Technology literacy is vital to the success of our children and that technology must be used to improve and expand instruction.  We consider technology literacy to be one of the key 21st century skills, in fact, our interpretation of teaching in the 21st century means starting off with basic literacy and moving on to visual literacy, technology literacy, information literacy, financial literacy, problem solving and higher order thinking skills, self-direction, and cultural and global awareness. As our department motto suggests, we want to provide students with access to information from a variety of online and offline sources, teach students to analyze information by asking meaningful questions, which help them guide their own learning, and model evaluation and communication techniques, which help students to be able to use technological means to organize, evaluate and communicate the data they find.