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I expect this wiki to be the online version of our Teachers Lounge. This is where we can share ideas about teaching and using technology in our teaching. This will be a resource spot where we can post great teaching links, or online resources we can use in class.

**A 2020 Vision for Texas Classrooms**
 [|Texas Long Range Plan for Technology]

Texas is faced with the challenge of taking a very diverse and economically disadvantaged group of students and creating a competitive work force that is technologically ready to compete in todays work force. The world is changing and we must change too. That means creating an intellectually talented labor force that is ready to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. The United States is no longer the leader in this competitive globally diverse society.

According to our STAR chart reports, McWhorter is in the top 3% of schools when it comes to available technology, however we are in the middle of the road when it comes to use of technology. We have to be the catalyst for change!!!

====//**"Today’s average college grads have spent fewer than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, e-mail, the Internet, cell phones andcomputers,video games and the Internet."**//====