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Co-curricular Programs - Media & Technology

High Meadows Media and Technology

Technology

The technology curriculum at High Meadows School is designed to introduce educational technology skills in the following five areas:

  • Word processing
  • On-line information search
  • Multi-media presentation
  • Spreadsheet
  • Databases

The five mentioned technology skills empower students with technology-enhanced learning tools that are appropriate to students’ age and characteristics, provide learners with visualized (multimedia) learning materials, immerse the new tools and skills seamlessly into the learning process, and promote and support High Meadows’ project-based learning approach.

At High Meadows, technology positions teachers to serve as encourager, facilitator and coordinator in the learning process. It provides teachers with effective teaching tools to stretch their instructional expertise as well as students learning potential. Our students are challenged with complex, authentic tasks, and multidisciplinary projects. Their adaptability to the complicated and ever-changing society grows through these experiences.

High Meadows technology curriculum standards are based on the national educational technology standards, and guided by our unique project-based approach. The standards are modified and updated yearly to meet the national educational technology standard requirements.

The technology program is offered to students from Kindergarten to 8th grade.

Library & Media Center

High Meadows Media and TechnologyThe High Meadows library has flexible scheduling available as well as regularly scheduled classroom visits enabling all students to visit the library on either a class visit or individual basis at least once a week. The curriculum the students experience in their classrooms is reinforced in the library.

Students locate sources of information as related to their classroom topics on the Internet. Locating authoritative sources of information through both print and electronic means is emphasized. Students develop media literacy skills to become discerning users of information. Middle Years students use all of the library's resources on a highly individualized basis in both their classrooms and in the Media Center. There is a special collection of fiction, non-fiction and periodicals developed specifically for them which are labeled Young Adult (YA).

The holdings of the library consist of approximately 14,000 books, some 100 videos, 39 periodical subscriptions, 25 audio recordings, 10 View-Master non-fiction reels, two electronic encyclopedias, as well as a collection of books and teaching aids for teachers, and a parent book collection. The computer equipment includes three look-up stations for students with Internet access. The Media Center also has a dish connection to televised broadcasts.
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