Digital Technologies have completely reshaped how we go about every aspect of our lives:

• Financial: our jobs, online shopping and banking, automated trading
• Social: email, mobiles, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Skype, blogs
• Political: electronic voting, grassroots movements (Arab Spring)
• Recreational: computer games, streaming video and music, augmented reality (Pokémon Go), fitness and activity monitoring (FitBit)
• Educational: free access to information, web search (Google), collaborative resources (Wikipedia), online learning (Khan Academy) and MOOCs, learning analytics
• Ethical: privacy and cyber security, data protection (Facebook, the census)

Technologies affect how we engage with each other as individuals and as a society. For better or worse, Digital Technologies will continue to disrupt our lives.

Teaching Digital Technologies also plays a role in solving challenging problems. It provides students with authentic learning challenges that foster curiosity, confidence, persistence, innovation, creativity, respect and cooperation.