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- Click here to learn more about our curriculum and partnership with learning.com!
- Grade PreK-5: Focus on Keyboarding & Word Processing Skills, Digital Citizenship, Online Safety
- - All Kindergarteners take our technology safety class. This interactive program teaches young students how to handle technology safely, and how to ask for help or permission when using the internet. Role-playing both in person and online allows the students to build confidence and security when using technology.
- -Beginning in 3rd grade, all students create their own blog. These blogs help with keyboarding and basic internet skills. Further, these blogs are used interdisciplinary as students will display photos of their artwork from art class, and upload sound bytes of their music from band or chorus. This blog will follow students through 12th grade, where it will be used as a portfolio shown to colleges.
NEW: All 5th grade girls will take classes online with GirlStart, and organization empowering girls in STEM! Click here to learn more about this exciting organization!
- Grades 6-8: Focus on using hardware and software to present information from core curriculum. Building comfort with all different types of technology and ability to use different representations of data to persuade and inform others.
- -All 6th graders participate in our robotics class, offered through Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Academy.The focus of Robotics Academy curriculum is on fundamental STEM understanding with emphasis on demonstrating mathematical concepts and the development of technological literacy.
- - Beginning in 7th grade, students take classes on game and app development through the Microsoft Virtual Academy and MIT OpenCourseWare. These classes support the students in their 8th grade capstone project where they design, create, and market a phone game or app and present it to our board. This project serves as an introduction to further programming opportunities in our High School. Our exciting classes include "Introduction to Videogame Studies", Videogame Theory and Analysis", "The Mathematics in Toys and Games" and many more!
Grades 9-12: Focus on Programming and Creating New Technology for use in the Global Economy and Job Market.
-ICT has numerous partnerships with various online college programs, and all High School students take online classes to earn AP and college credit. Classes include choices such as "Ethics and Information Technology" through the University of Michigan and "Database Systems" through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Click here for a full list of our online college classes available.
- All 12th graders complete internships in the STEM fields and create a presentation using multiple sources of technology. Internships can range across disciplines and can be world-wide. Click here to see our Technology Internship opportunities abroad. Click here to see our Technology Internship opportunities within the United States.
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Our students are not the only ones being certified in technology! Our ICT Teachers are required to obtain a Leading Edge Digital Educator Certification. This curriculum is based upon the National Education Technology Plan, Common Core State Standards, and the ISTE Standards (formerly known as the NETS) for Teachers (ISTE-T). LEC Digital Educators exemplify effective utilization of technology-rich learning opportunities.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
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Our ICT Administrators are required to obtain a Leading Edge Administrator Certification. It focuses on site, district and regional administrators and how to effectively utilize technology tools, resources and innovative solutions to advance student achievement, foster educator productivity and extend learning opportunities for all.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
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UPDATED: This spring we will continue the online class for parents titled "Understanding Your Child's Digital World." About once a week, Professor Catherine Herman will post 21st Century digital world lessons in a blog format for parents to read and comment on. Initial lessons have shared information on topics such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Do you have a topic that you want explained in detail? Please e-mail any of our staff members, or check out this parent class at Georgetown Day School for further ideas.
Do you have a topic that you want explained in detail? Please e-mail any of our staff members, or check out this parent class at Georgetown Day School for further ideas.