With high technology increasingly permeating the fabric of society, success in completing many everyday tasks and projects hinges on competence in information technology. To prepare students for this high-tech world, schools must deliver a 21st century literacy curriculum which includes instruction in information technology as an integral component. Lake Forest Country Day School meets this challenge through its Educational Technology program by integrating technology into classroom instruction, structuring opportunities for students to use information technology as a tool to complete a task rather than as an end in itself, independent of other learning objectives. By doing so, students learn not only the technical skills of computer and technology use, but simultaneously their proper role in attaining other goals, all while mastering fundamental content in core subject areas.

• Matching appropriate technology use to desired ends.
• Use of computer programs
• Skill building applications
• Simulations
• Robotic

The philosophy of the Information Literacy program is that information literacy skills are best learned when integrated into core classroom lessons. Therefore the Technology Curriculum Coordinator and Librarian work as a team with the core subject teacher, both in planning the lessons as well as in teaching the information literacy components. Thus, students learn information literacy concepts and skills in the context of core classroom lessons, not as a separate activity divorced from a particular subject matter.

• Find / use /analyze information
• Research related skills
  

The LFCDS library philosophy is based on the assumption that libraries provide people with valuable resources for personal, educational, professional, and economic growth. We hold that frequent, guided use of the school library can help children develop knowledge, skills, and habits that will allow them to use libraries efficiently and effectively throughout their lives. The library staff strives to maintain a quality collection of print, non-print, and electronic materials and works with LFCDS faculty to ensure that students can learn library use skills as they solve real-life and classroom problems.

• Literature at all levels
• Print and electronic non-fiction resource
• Library as life-long resource.