Technology Integration
Technology is a tool to leverage learning and to support students' ability to communicate their thinking.
Teachers use technology to amplify teaching and learning practices such as higher-order thinking, which includes creativity and knowledge construction. Technology standards at each grade level guide teachers.
Each Upper Campus classroom features a SMART Board that teachers use daily as an integral part of student learning. Laptop computers, available to each classroom, provide individual access to the School server and printers, as well as to guided Internet sites. Students use classroom desktop computers, digital cameras, and iPod Touches, iPads, and e-readers for individual and small group work.
As with all student tasks, productivity tools help meet specific student needs, whether for skills and concepts or for personal productivity such as writing, research, or idea development. These tools, along with traditional learning tools, form the ways to explore and express thinking for Trinity School students.
The School also sees accurate keyboarding as an essential life skill. In addition to traditional handwriting instruction, students begin learning keyboard skills in Grade 1 and continue through the grades. By Grade 5 most students prefer to keyboard extended writing assignments.
Trinity School students delight in using the rich repertoire of technology available that helps them explore, expand, and express their learning.