Seventh Shape Openhouse

Recently, I went to my son's seventh degree openhouse. It was a prissy setup. They made me follow my son's daily routine, visiting the same classrooms inwards the same order, but amongst 10 infinitesimal degree fourth dimension where the teachers gave data most what they would travel doing this year.

Overall I am impressed past times what I saw as well as heard. My principal takeaways was that the schoolhouse has embraced a hands-on learning curriculum, as well as is making real good/wise exercise of technology.

My impression from Math, Science, ELA classes was that, the see schoolhouse is using the flipped-classroom model to a non bad extent. There is lilliputian lecturing as well as a lot of grouping work.

The scientific discipline degree presentation was exciting. Instead of memorizing, the degree emphasizes hypothesizing, testing, as well as reasoning.

Art degree also sounded exciting. They added novel media modules. This is non surprising given that one-half the 12 years one-time population listing beingness a YouTuber equally their career choice. The fine art instructor said that their finish is to acquire the students excited as well as comfortable amongst making/producing things.

The schoolhouse offers many interesting clubs inwards add-on to the curriculum. I wishing I was a student, as well as had the chance to larn inwards this environment.

Technology use

The schoolhouse makes real proficient exercise of technology. Each pupil gets a ChromeBook for the year. They exercise it at home, accuse overnight, as well as convey it to schoolhouse to exercise inwards the classes all day. These ChromeBooks guide maintain real proficient battery life, as well as they are real durable.

Everything is on the web, as well as accessible via the ChromeBooks. The students guide maintain access to grading data via the schools webportal for them. Many classes exercise apps that enable the students to create flash cards for studying. The students acquire to guide maintain exercise tests. And almost every class  brand exercise of videos, including YouTube videos.

In each class, the students are responsible for organizing their agendas as well as proceed rail of the homework deadlines. The students attain all their degree textile as well as stance as well as submit homework online using their ChromeBooks as well as Google business office as well as other Google tools.

It looks similar Google has the monopoly on the mindshare of the novel generation. And Microsoft is missing the boat on this 1 big time. By the fourth dimension these students graduate college as well as kickoff jobs, they may non travel real willing to adopt into the Windows/PC ecosystem.


Each classroom has a smartboard. These smartboards are genuinely figurer screens projected over to a regular whiteboard. The smartboard functionality comes from the software that tracks mitt movements as well as pen touches to the whiteboard via a camera. The instructor tin display whatever website on the smartboard, as well as tin scroll, click, zoom, amongst ease.

I am left amongst a lurking as well as jealousy guilt later the openhouse. Compared to the middleschool's engineering scientific discipline use, our universities as well as our CS department's engineering scientific discipline exercise is real lame... Why is that?

In my university, nosotros proceed on traditional lecturing. In our classes, in that place is a prissy monitor as well as projecting technology, but in that place are no smartboards. I mean value in that place are clickers available inwards but about classrooms, but that is ancient tech as well as unnatural means to interact. The academy makes us exercise the God-awful (and fifty-fifty to a greater extent than ancient) Blackboard software for interacting/managing the degree as well as grades.

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