Last Friday, the staff met at El Carmelo in the morning to learn a new information management application called Cruncher and collaborate on the new science curriculum. The group used their laptops (Thank you, PTA!) on the wireless network in the library. This time of large group and small group learning and planning was very useful.
At the end of the morning we carpooled up to Foothill College's Krause Center for Innovation (KCI) for lunch and a tour of this remarkable learning center. The KCI is a technology center that provides computing for Foothill students but, more relevantly (for us), provides opportunities for professional teachers to learn to use technology with their students. There are many courses offered there that focus on how to integrate technology into the various curricula of elementary education. We received presentations on online resources for math, language arts and other subjects, learned about various kinds of content management systems and discussed our future technology needs by grade level.
