Fourth grade students enjoyed many activities on Digital Learning Day.
February 1, 2012 was National Digital Day to celebrate the use of technology in education. Fourth graders at High Point Elementary School participated in a simulation of a day in a “school of the future”. Students enjoyed learning games, investigations, videos, and PowerPoint Presentations on individual laptop computers. The activities demonstrated the use of technology in all four core areas of instruction. Students listened to stories read by famous people from the Actor’s Screen Guild, watched videos and simulations from Colonial Williamsburg, wrote short stories on Scholastic.com, and many other activities. One student commented that “she loved history, and that the videos from Colonial Williamsburg shared a lot of artifacts and interesting information from America’s history.” Another student stated that “he loved being in the computer lab, and he loved learning how to make 18th century chocolate”. Other students enjoyed creating books about the Solar System on Microsoft Word. National Digital Day was a great success! We can hardly wait until next year!