9/2/2014 September 2, 2014Welcome back to another year of technology skills. There are many special projects ahead for grade 8 this year and I hope many strategies they will take with them to high school. The most important in my opinion, though, is the ability to learn how to learn. Students today are surrounded, in fact bombarded, by information. What is real? What sources can I trust? What can I use that belongs to someone else (and what can't I use) and how do I credit the owner? As I said in our first class, there will not always be a step by step plan provided to you to reach a goal. Sometimes you will need to layout your own path and construct your own knowledge. There will not always be someone to come over and help you when you raise a hand. Do you know how to help yourself? Our first class discussion centered around safety and security, time management, password protection, and of course thinking skills. During the course of the year we will be investigating the stock market while we develop skills in MS Excel and also working on a Genius Hour project. I hope to expand upon what last year's class did as the pilot class, and I will be sharing those ideas with students in the coming weeks. Please return Internet permission forms as soon as possible and also please complete the School Reach contact survey found on the front page of the Our Lady website. Google Apps forms are on file from the previous year and need not be submitted again. Comments are closed.
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