In today's world where grandmas Google, teens text and toddlers tweet, keeping up with technology is imperative.
The Carlsbad Unified School District harnesses technology as a tool to enhance learning in grades K-12. Below are a few highlights.
For more information, please contact our resident guru, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Devin Vodicka, Ed.D. You're also invited to observe our technologically savvy students and staff, I guarantee you'll be impressed.
Technology treasures
Recent articles by state educators have praised technology implemented at our three middle schools. Examples include a blogspot at cusd-TCSII.blogspot.com, where students post videos that exemplify state learning enhancement recommendations in action.
Technology supports engagement in learning in diverse formats, from ceiling-mounted projection devices and Smartboards to a document camera and streaming video bulletin broadcasts.
Geocaching Club students at Calavera Hills Middle School use handheld GPS units to search for hidden treasure. While adventuring, they learn latitude and longitude coordinates, estimate and measure distance, graph and work as a team.
“Many teachers create an interactive classroom using technology to support instruction,” said Aviara Oaks Middle School Principal Carolyn Milikin.
Aviara Oaks Middle School Teacher Leslie Frazee concurs.
“Having students use remotes to answer questions displayed on the large Promethean board captures their attention,” Frazee said. “I benefit by seeing immediately what they are learning.”
Rewarding innovation
Three of the 17 countywide teachers honored this school year as Golden Mouse Tech Heroes serve CUSD. Each honoree, Jefferson Elementary's Luis Ponce and Carlsbad High's Amber Mosier and Carlsbad Unified Teacher of the Year Jeffrey Spanier, received 10 refurbished computers to continue helping students bridge the digital divide.
Ponce's fifth-graders work on complex tasks, PowerPoint presentations and a weekly broadcast. Mosier integrates a geometry sketch pad and wireless writing tablet into her math classes. Spanier is using his refurbished computers to help his Advancement Via Individual Determination students excel.
More tech upgrades coming soon
As part of the Proposition P district-wide construction, technology is being upgraded at several sites. All advancements operate within a paradigm of quality instruction.
“Technology is a valuable educational tool,” Ponce said. “There is a lot of good, old-fashioned teaching going on in the classroom, but technology can make it more entertaining and compelling.”
Now that is something to write, or tweet, home about.
The Carlsbad Unified School District harnesses technology as a tool to enhance learning in grades K-12. Below are a few highlights.
For more information, please contact our resident guru, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Devin Vodicka, Ed.D. You're also invited to observe our technologically savvy students and staff, I guarantee you'll be impressed.
Technology treasures
Recent articles by state educators have praised technology implemented at our three middle schools. Examples include a blogspot at cusd-TCSII.blogspot.com, where students post videos that exemplify state learning enhancement recommendations in action.
Technology supports engagement in learning in diverse formats, from ceiling-mounted projection devices and Smartboards to a document camera and streaming video bulletin broadcasts.
Geocaching Club students at Calavera Hills Middle School use handheld GPS units to search for hidden treasure. While adventuring, they learn latitude and longitude coordinates, estimate and measure distance, graph and work as a team.
“Many teachers create an interactive classroom using technology to support instruction,” said Aviara Oaks Middle School Principal Carolyn Milikin.
Aviara Oaks Middle School Teacher Leslie Frazee concurs.
“Having students use remotes to answer questions displayed on the large Promethean board captures their attention,” Frazee said. “I benefit by seeing immediately what they are learning.”
Rewarding innovation
Three of the 17 countywide teachers honored this school year as Golden Mouse Tech Heroes serve CUSD. Each honoree, Jefferson Elementary's Luis Ponce and Carlsbad High's Amber Mosier and Carlsbad Unified Teacher of the Year Jeffrey Spanier, received 10 refurbished computers to continue helping students bridge the digital divide.
Ponce's fifth-graders work on complex tasks, PowerPoint presentations and a weekly broadcast. Mosier integrates a geometry sketch pad and wireless writing tablet into her math classes. Spanier is using his refurbished computers to help his Advancement Via Individual Determination students excel.
More tech upgrades coming soon
As part of the Proposition P district-wide construction, technology is being upgraded at several sites. All advancements operate within a paradigm of quality instruction.
“Technology is a valuable educational tool,” Ponce said. “There is a lot of good, old-fashioned teaching going on in the classroom, but technology can make it more entertaining and compelling.”
Now that is something to write, or tweet, home about.