Jun 15 2008
Technology Prepares Students for Real world…
Kings Ridge Christian School, Atlanta, Georgia, is a school that is immersed in technology. Every school these days has a computer lab but, at Kings Ridge there is much much more, to prepare students for the real world. We are all aware that technology in the future is going to be so much more than it is today. From kindergarten to year twelve students have access to a computer, although kindergarten and Year nine to year twelve have a one to one tablet PC available to them, which is their own laptop. They are currently using software called Dyknow solutions provide the students with a ‘competitive edge’. Dyknow ‘has permitted students to think in a way that may not be possible in schools that don’t have the technology’.
Students of Kings Ridge are getting ‘more involved in the class as they are immersed in the curriculum and flow of ideas. Students have ownership in the learning and therefore are more empowered and encouraged to advance to activities requiring higher levels of thinking skills.’
Kings Ridge is very similar to the school which I attended for Practicum, Bariner Public School Quakers Hill, (http://www.barnier-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/). The amount of technology supplied to the students provides a different feel amongst the whole school. The students are privileged to have access to schools like this and they aren’t only in the United States we in fact have our own Kings Ridge in Sydney. I suggest you firstly read the report on Kings Ridge (technology prepares students for the real world) as well as viewing Bariner Public Schools website and compare the two.
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