Digital Natives

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Digital Natives
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Technology at Winchester High School
Students are active participants of their
education not passive recipients!

• Presented to the WHS PFA
• April 2, 2008
• By Annamaria Schrimpf
• Director of Educational Technology

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Books on Line
Discovery Education
iGoogle
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Web 2.0??

• iGoogle
• Podcasting
• Videocasting
• Blogging
• Wikis
• Social BookmarkingTagging
• RSS feeds

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Students Uses of Technology Outside of School

• Social Networking
• My Space
• Facebook
• Limited Collaboration
• School work
• iPods
• Instant Messaging

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Technology

• Educational

• Administrative

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Teacher and StudentUses of Technology--Educationa
l

• Blogs
• English
• Library
• Wikis
• Reading
• Connecting outside the classroom
• Aberjona
• Primary Sources
• Websites
• Research Skills
• Science
• Language Lab

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Teacher and StudentUses of TechnologyAdministra
tive

• Online Attendance
• Tardy use of ID Badge
• POS
• Secure Log Ins
• Internet Filtering
• Teacher Websites

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Hardware Updates

• Laptops
• LCD Projectors
• Wireless Carts
• English
• Math
• Social Studies
• Computer labs
• Foreign Language
• Animation
• CAD
• Integration
• Photoshop

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State of the State

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Readiness Project
• Governors Strategic Plan

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Needs

• Adequate funding for sustainability
• Graduation requirements
• MA Technology Literacy Standards
• Winchester Public Schools Technology Plan

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Educating our students for their future not our
past!