these skills are overlooked in the typical classroom setting. Educators
are working toward providing students with meaningful learning
opportunities through technology that encompass all of the aspects
that make up success for a graduating high school senior entering
college or the workforce.
Saint Anne School
4040 Willow Avenue
Castle Shannon, PA 15234
412.561.7720
www.saintanneschool.org
THE WHO
Teachers
Near the end of 2015, the U.S. Department of Education released
the 2016 National Education Technology Plan as a commitment to
supporting personalized professional learning to provide greater equity
of access to technology for students across America. In addition, the
Future Ready initiative, developed by the department in 2014, had
more than 2,000 superintendents across the country who pledged to
integrate digital learning into their districts’ curricula. The National
Education Technology Plan also includes a focus on providing each
student with the chance to engage in educational experiences led by
technology.
In addition, Education Week states that digital instructional content
is the second largest spend in the K-12 educational technology market,
just behind hardware. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson,
previously known for their paperback publishing, are pushing out the
most digital lessons in math, English/language arts, science, business,
and fine arts.
An education for total development of the child - body, mind, and soul
Accepting Registrations for 2016-2017
• Grades 1-8, full day Kindergarten, 4 yr. full and
half day Preschool, 3 yr. half day Preschool
• 15:1 student-teacher ratio, challenging faith-based
curriculum with emphasis on STREAM (Science,
Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art, Math)
• Students consistently score above anticipated levels
on standardized tests
• SMARTboards in every classroom
• Chromebooks provided to all students in grades 5-8,
Kindles provided in grades K-4
• Networked classrooms with a multi-platform
technology environment
• Scholarships and tuition assistance available
• Variety of sports programs and extracurricular
activities including STREAM-focused workshops
Students
No student is the
same. Each has a
different family life,
upbringing, ability to
communicate and
learn, and yet these
students are all being
taught the same way.
Schools across the
country are shifting
from a one-size-fits-all
approach to a personalized learning approach. A current buzzword in
education, personalized learning allows students to become part of
their learning experience. Students will be in control of creating
content for learning using smartphone apps. This approach intends to
put students at the forefront of molding their learning experience,
resulting in stronger student engagement and therefore better
outcomes. The Nellie Mae Education Foundation notes that a studentcentered approach can “only be successful if [it occurs] within a
cultural context that demands continuous improvement and engages
collective processes that foster understanding and broad ownership of
decisions. This should be driven by vigilant consideration of
assessment results that help illuminate the extent to which particular
interventions are working, and who is benefiting from the changes in
what ways.”
THE HOW
Mobile and Digital Learning
Digital learning made a slow entrance into mainstream education,
but with the use of tablets and mobile devices, the number of teachers
using game-based learning in the classroom has doubled i