The pictures you see here are attempts to share with you the amazing work at Keith Valley Middle School at Horsham, Pennsylvania.
Three years ago they decided to change from technology as a pull out skills based class to technology support labs for each content area. The way this works is each of their 3 tech teachers works with one grade level and schedules the lab for the content areas throughout the year. The tech teachers work with the content area teachers to plan & coteach an in depth tech infused activity. Every student then does a project using technology for each of their classes during the year.
I could literally go on for an hour describing the benefits of this approach. This school is maximizing tech resources to affect all content areas. The content area teachers are able to approach the lessons without stress of tech problems and the tech teachers can maximize student and access in a way which supports content learning.
The examples of student work created in this program are what really get you thinking (links to come soon). Full rigor and higher level thinking are very explicit in their interactive timelines, virtual museums and podcasts. So very cool.
I have so much more to say about this but my Palm keyboard needs a driver update so i'm thumbing this....
Don't worry...I will surely bring this up again.
