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Thursday, November 13, 2003
Technology and School Reform - Shelly Eitniear Cherry, techLearning
At Sequoyah Elementary School teachers want to reach students in deep and meaningful ways. They seek to find new approaches to teaching and presenting the subject matter in order to engage, motivate, and inspire young minds. Aware of this goal we are looking at a new "Technological Knowledge Age" learning approach, engaging students in how to work to solve complex problems. It means students working on collaborative teams and employing higher-order thinking skills to construct understandings, insights, and innovations. It means students learning to use modern technological tools to communicate their ideas with their classmates, their teachers, their parents, and even a worldwide audience. And it requires diverse and innovative assessment that can potentially measure all of the content knowledge and skills we are asking students to master in this increasingly technological world. But, the question is, "How do we incorporate technology into a year-round school whose foundation of education is based on the Core Knowledge Sequence, Great Expectation Practices and Procedures, and Arts Plus Education?
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