The Coalition of Lighthouse Schools' purpose is to create a dynamic learning community of schools that utilize one-to-one computing, empowering students and teachers to lead in the 21st Century.
Today’s generation of students looks at technology as part of their everyday environment. To fully meet their needs, technology should be pervasive and always available. In 1 to 1 learning, each student has access to a wireless laptop to use at school and at home, enabling communication and collaboration among peers and teachers, and connecting parents to their children’s learning. And educators are provided digital tools to create learning plans, manage educational content, track student progress, and more.
I learned a lot about technology in this project and also about teamwork. Some other things I learned were movie making, poetry, creativity, and freedom to work independently on a big project. On our computers we learned how to work with iMovie…We had to explore and figure out how things worked. I learned how to join clips together, cut clips, and add sound. iMovie helped us on our project because we messed up a lot but we could cut it out or fix it. Working in teams was a great experience. I liked how we each had different responsibilities and roles…One of my favorite things in this project was how the movie was our own and how we were independent. This was an awesome project!—Allison, 5th grade, St. Paul Christian Academy
This year in ARTech we did a video. We learned how to film and work the camera. It was a fun project because you got to choose what your movie was about and just the students made it. While we were working and making the video, we also learned teamwork. Teamwork means that we worked hard and had our own personal roles in making the movie. Creativity was another important part of making the movie. We had to be creative about cropping out what scenes should be cropped and which ones should be kept. Editing our movie was very hard. It was a long process deciding which music and sounds should be put in the film. Another part of editing was listening to other’s opinions on what would make the movie better. We had to have a poem that went with our movie. The poem wasn’t a rhyming poem; it was Hebrew parallelism. Hebrew parallelism is two lines with similar or related ideas. An example in my poem was “Sprinting down the field, running very fast.” Running very fast is similar to sprinting down the field…— Eric, 5th grade, St. Paul Christian Academy
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The following are Apple "Profiles in Success" about Members of the Coalition of Lighthouse Schools:
St. Agnes Academy - St. Dominic School
Apple Distinguished School Profile
New Lease on Laptop Access for Students
Profiles in Success: Saint Agnes Academy - Saint Dominic School
Ahead of the Wave
Profiles in Success: The Gillispie School
The Gillispie School: Keynote Encourages Creative Thinking
The Urban School of San Francisco
Apple Distinguished School Profile
Independent Thinking
Profiles in Success: The Urban School of San Francisco