| Overview | Primary | Intermediate | Middle |
COMPUTERS / Introduction
At Falk School, we believe technology is a tool to support our school-wide curriculum. In the process, our students are exposed to integrated, challenging, authentic, timely, and global projects that use a range of current technological tools, applications, on-line learning, and methods of communication. This is accomplished through a variety of educational methodology, software, and hardware that includes but is not limited to: curricular integration, team collaboration, digital resources (e.g. the internet, digital cameras, robotics), educational technology tools (electronic whiteboards, hand-helds, probes), and digital assessment tools (on-line grading, student response systems). We strive to produce sensitive, imaginative, and inquisitive future leaders with projects that inspire confidence, ethics, responsibility, and respect for others.
Primary / COMPUTERS
At the primary level, Falk School believes that technology skills offer young students a unique educational opportunity for self-expression, experimentation, developing independence, creativity, and problem solving. Children learn to use age-appropriate software and are guided on a technological path of supported learning about their world. Students listen, observe, extrapolate, make choices, problem-solve, research, and collect data. Sensitive to the growth of a young child, we are careful to nurture and encourage the process, while providing the necessary time to explore, repeat, think, and create. Through meaningful and collaborative projects, a secure environment, and age-appropriate technology, primary students gradually fill themselves with earned confidence, educational understanding, and creative endeavor.
Intermediate / COMPUTERS
At the intermediate level, Falk School seeks to encourage and reinforce a student’s natural desire to strive, experiment, and work collaboratively with age-appropriate technology hardware, software, and curriculum. Integrated projects reinforce learning concepts and add new dimension to children’s developing thought processes. With an emphasis on creativity and authentic learning, the intermediate student will engage in meaningful projects that allow use of varied technological tools and processes. Intermediate students begin to move beyond the concrete technology skills to a modest expansion of ideas and challenges in readiness for the middle level.
Middle / COMPUTERS
At Falk’s middle level, we believe that the previous years of technology instruction should come full circle with integrated, challenging, authentic, timely, and global projects that use a range of current technological tools, applications, on-line learning, and methods of communication. This is accomplished through curricular integration, team collaboration, and use of digital resources, educational technology tools, and digital assessment tools. We strive to produce sensitive and aware future leaders with projects that inspire confidence, ethics, responsibility, and respect for others.
