Turning
Technology into
Learning
and Students into Well-Rounded
Thinkers and Doers
Field trips bring important historical events and people to
life and offer students a way
to experience
real world memorable
lessons.
Field trips include GPS math and science readings that leverage technology as a tool for data gathering and
analysis.
Field trips offer an opportunity to build literacy by using technology to record personal experiences at these sites.
Field trips - local or distant - are encouraged to bring real world observations and data into the classroom’s unique technology projects.
Encourages hands-on interpretive projects that bring history and the arts to life
for every
student.
GIS/GPS activities build math and science skills as part of technology literacy development.
Challenges students to read AND write at varying levels of depth – notes, answers, essays, poetry, stories and field reports
Multi-media viewing and developer skill development produces end products that embody knowledge building.
All study units include social studies and history, art, music
and literature to give technology a broader context as part of human storytelling traditions.
Every track includes math and science learning activities
tied to the
historical and cultural context of their studies.
Requires reading of various and challenging levels and offers opportunities to test comprehension using interactive tools that turn information into knowledge.
Socially responsible Internet use that requires thoughtful, constructive use of positive materials online and in the classroom.