Pre-K TEKS and Beyond

Student success begins with Pre-K students being introduced to technology and given the opportunity of being exposed to different types of software while being taught how to navigate that software. These young students need to learn the correct names of the applicable parts of a computer and the other equipment related to the computer. Students must be able to communicate using technology as well as begin to acquire age appropriate information. The use of voice and sound recorders should also be introduced. These skills will lay a foundation for learning throughout their academic careers. This foundation will be built upon as students progress through school while increasing their knowledge in all four strands of technology: foundations, information acquisition, solving problems, and communications. This learning spirals as TEKS are reviewed and built upon continuously. By grades 3-5 students should know how to use a scanner, a CD-ROM and digital video. Information should be acquired through text, audio, video, and graphics. Scaffolding of curriculum will take place as students work toward solving real world problems using various types of data. Students will be most successful when they become life long technology learners. This learning process must take place as early as possible.