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Student-powered technology integration enhances 21st Century
learning skills
TechYES
emphasizes technology as a key instructional tool
 Today's
students — a digital generation raised with computers and
technology pervading their lives — will play an important role in
the use of technology in the classroom. Beginning in September, students in
grades 6-8 from 30 public and private middle
schools will participate in TechYES, a program that utilizes
technology and student mentors as essential learning tools.
TechYES is an innovative way for schools to offer a technology
certification program for students in grades 6-9. All students
will complete two original technology projects of their own
design that will help them demonstrate their creativity and
ingenuity, while honing the technology, thinking and planning
skills they will need to be successful in the 21st Century.
All
students who complete both projects will earn “Technology
Literate” national certification and join the list of TechYES-certified
students nationwide.
Student technology leaders,
who
help their peers master the skills needed to complete their
technology projects, are a distinctive feature of the TechYES
program. Student technology leaders are part of a
state-wide network of student mentors who volunteer to tutor,
assist and evaluate finished technology projects.
Click here to
learn more about TechYES.
Area teachers and students from 30 public and private middle
schools in the HFM BOCES and WSWHE BOCES regions are
collaborating to use technology as a tool to improve student
performance in English language arts, mathematics and science.
This grant-funded
Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program
[Click here to learn more] helps
meet the federal goal that all students will demonstrate
technology literacy by the end of eighth grade.
New skills
needed for a new century
Students in today’s schools enter a different world than that of
their parents. “Twenty-first century” skills beyond the traditional core
subject areas include learning and thinking skills such as
problem solving, creativity, and collaboration, civic, cultural
and global awareness, life skills such as ethics and leadership,
and technology, information and media literacy.
Technology integration allows all students to explore
this new world in their classes, and reach beyond the walls of
their classroom to the world beyond. In addition, students
involved in technology planning and implementation have the
opportunity to collaborate with adults to solve real world
problems — true 21st century skills.
For further information, contact HFM BOCES Enhancing
Education through Technology Coordinator
Dominick Baggetta at
dbaggeta@hfmboces.org,
or Coordinator of Instructional Services
Stacy Ward at
sward@hfmboces.org.
To learn more about the Enhancing Education Through
Technology program, click
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