Digital Learning Day

This past Wednesday at Highlander was Digital Learning Day. During the school day and in afterschool teachers put extra emphasis on adding the technology throughout the school into their activities and regular plan of the day. Teachers used our media computer lab, SMART board, IPADS and laptops. Whether it’s using the SMART board to make a lesson more hands on, or practicing your math facts and reading skills on an IPAD there are many different ways that technology can be added to the school day.

Here are some of the technical activities done during homeroom time:

* K - went to the Media Lab to work on Lexia (which is a program which helps students develop reading skills) 

* 2nd Grade - played a Jeopardy Game on the SMART board to help them review topics from class such as their spelling words from the week, math and fact and opinion.

Here are some pictures of Kindergartners using the IPADs in their after school homeroom: 

Technology was also added into Afterschool Program classes:

* In American Sign Language K and 1st graders watched a video on the SMART board to help students learn family signs (mom, dad, grandma, brother, dog, cat, etc) and also sang the some "My Mother is a Baker" (the lyrics were viewed on the SMART board) to help them review the signs that they had just learned.