High School Technology

In August, High School teachers began implementing more technology into the classroom through the use of an iPad cart and a laptop cart. This is very exciting news because it allows teachers to foster a twenty-first century learning environment that will continue our efforts of preparing students for a collegiate environment. Implementing the carts into the classroom allows students to be fully engaged, through technology, in their subject area. For example, Mrs. Pitner has used the laptop cart and Google Drive in Bachelorette Living to allow students to collaboratively create a class presentation entitled “Everything for Baby”. Each student researched specific items relating to babies and the class created a presentation. Mrs. Watson allowed her 7^th grade Social Studies class to virtually walk among the pyramids in Egypt through an app called Google Earth on the iPad cart. Math classes are able to use graphing calculators and interactive websites in class. Teachers are using Socrative on the laptop cart and iPad cart across several subjects. Socrative is a website and an app that allows the teacher and the student to connect wirelessly. The teachers can send questions and the students respond. The teacher can then show the anonymous answers onto the board for discussion. This type of activity produces 100% student involvement in the classroom yet allows the teacher to download a detailed report at the end of the activity to monitor the discussion. 

We are very excited about what technology is doing to help foster a new culture of engaged, creative students and we look forward to implementing more technology in the future!

Kaylah Holland
High School Technology Integrator