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The School of Technology focuses on preparing students for college with an emphasis on 21st century digital literacy skills. Students will complete a rigorous college preparatory program designed to equip them for majors in video and audio technologies, digital media and web technologies, and engineering and robotics technologies. Students will explore existing and future technologies in an effort to improve or solve real-world problems. Through partnerships with corporations, students will be given job shadowing experiences, internships, and mentoring opportunities to explore existing and future technologies. Each class in the School of Technology is a blended course (online and instructor-led) A student in the School of Technology should be self-motivated, task driven, and have the tenacity to complete a rigorous college preparatory curriculum online.
The academic program will emphasize Project Learning . Project Learning is organized around the creation, execution and finished production of something object-related. For example, instead of publishing a report to share information, student will use the tools technology such as the video camera, computer, and internet to create a documentary or interactive web page with streaming video footage.
We use technology every day of our lives: Communication via email, information acquisition on the Internet, and file sharing (i.e. photos, documents, movies, etc.). Regular tasks as well as tasks related to specific job functions require digital proficiency or literacy. Digital literacy can be defined as ".the ability to use digital technology, communications tools, and/or networks to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to function in a knowledge society" (Lemke, 2003). The need for students to build digital skills is increasingly more important in an age where technology and its uses are becoming more sophisticated and widespread.
Upon graduation Students will have a digital portfolio, relevant work experience, industry standard certifications required for entry level employment and be prepared to enter into a post-secondary (technology) program of study.
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