Technology in School

Preparing children for lives in an unknown future is exciting! One way we do this is by embedding technology into our inquiry-based program in as frequent and meaningful a way as possible. This week alone our children:

• used Apple TV to explore YouTube videos related to current inquiries
• search Google and Google Images for nonfiction information about animals and nests
• took their own photos on a nature walk using the camera technology on an iPad
• played interactive alphabet games on the SmartBoard
• found familiar digital songs and stories using QR code technology at our iPad listening centre
• co-constructed many of this blog's entries together with me
• participated in the collection and observation of hundreds of digital photos and videos
• learned about time lapsed photography 
• used the Internet to learn about a Grade 2 class in California who also raised Painted Lady Butterflies

A interesting article was just forwarded to me that I thought many of you might find interesting. "Six reasons why kids should know how to blog" can be accessed at this address: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/six-reasons-why-kids-should-know-how-to-blog/