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The City of Boston’s Department of Information Technology has partnered with a nonprofit called Open Air Boston to provide digital literacy training, subsidized netbooks or mobile devices and low-cost Internet access to low-income middle and high school students and their families. The city and Open Air Boston are using BTOP funding to bring the program – called Technology Goes Home – to 62 middle and high schools and 35 community sites. Technology Goes Home is equipping Boston teenagers with valuable digital literacy skills that will help them compete in a job market that takes these skills for granted. With training offered in Spanish, Vietnamese, Somali and other languages, the program is also bringing parents and other family members online. http://www.techgoeshome.org/

Motivates students in their learning due to their enjoyment and ease of use with various technological mediums.Reaches students of various learning styles. Technology use applies to and compliments  Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.Allows students to create and design their own unique products reflective of their personalities and learning needs/styles.Encourages students to manipulate media to construct their own meaning.Enables students to easy share their learning with teachers, families and peers.Gives students the chance to explore technological mediums which in inevitable increase job skills that employers look for in the workforce.