Technology

Essential Question: How is technology affecting the learning process?

Technology is integrated across the curriculum in Grades PreK-8. The Massachusetts Department of Education Recommended Instructional Technology Standards can be found here. The following is a sampling of technology use and is subject to change based on new applications and curriculum. Students in Grade 5 students have weekly technology classes using  laptop computers and chomebook devices. Weekly Computer Activities:

• Internet safety
• Continue typing drills to increase speed and accuracy
• Internet research using children's search engines(kiddle.co, www.kidinfo.com, or www.askkids.com) and/or teacher reviewed;
• site the web sources used in research;
• Webquests that support the curriculum
• Word processing using features of various toolbars in Word
• Power Point using wordart, clipart, change of fonts and font color and adding backgrounds.
• Using Excel to make graphs, choose the appropriate graph for the data
• Introduction to Chromebooks
• Introduction to Google Classroom and Google Apps including Docs, Slides, and Sheets.
• Coding using www.code.org
• STEM activities