TECHNOLOGY

We believe that:

• Students need to be able to use a wide variety of technological tools to enhance their future success as students and worker.
• It is imperative for all students to have access to information via technology as a basis for lifelong learning.
• It is essential for all learners, including educators, to process and manage information through the skillful use of technology.
• Skillful use of technology supports the development of process skills such as flexibility, adaptability, critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration, which are essential to success in our rapidly changing information age.
• Technology allows us to better serve the diverse learning styles of our students and educate them for a wider range of intelligences (verbal/linguistic, musical, logical, mathematical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, interpersonal).
• Our schools must prepare students for today's workplace and the workplace of the future.

Students in grades 4 - 8 access the computer lab twice each week while grades K5 - 3 use it once during the week.  Each classroom has an IBM compatible computer in order to practice skills learned.  On-line services are available in the computer lab.