Instructional Technology Department
The mission of the Instructional Technology is to provide students, teachers, support staff and administrators with the equipment, software and resources each needs to reach their full academic potential. We hope that this page and the links on the left vertical navigation panel assist you in making full use of the available resources.
A key component of the program is to instill the requisite digital literacy skill set to effectively use the information and communication technologies to which students and staff have access. This is consistent with the national goal of promoting digital literacy announced in the National Broadband Plan. Technology permeates every aspect of our daily lives; as such the facile use of technology is vital to success in the twenty-first century.
Ready access to an abundance of information (some of questionable value) requires that students become information literate – able to evaluate information in an intelligent and discerning manner.
Our computer labs are staffed with certified teachers who instruct students in the use of information and computer technologies (ICT). The curriculum reflects the ICT standards developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The goal of the computer lab specialists is to instill ICT literacy – another strand within the digital literacy framework and the newly adopted NYS Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards.
The New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards
These standards emphasize the skills in Impacts of Computing, Computational Thinking, Networks & System Design, Cybersecurity, and Digital Literacy.
These standards emphasize the skills in Impacts of Computing, Computational Thinking, Networks & System Design, Cybersecurity, and Digital Literacy.