School District Is Taking A New Look At The Attendance System

The leading cause of this generation’s idleness in today’s society is the easy access to technology. An abundance of schools is allowing the use of phones and computers during school hours. Although this can have some benefits, say looking up an unknown word, students take much more advantage of that. Allowing

In 2015 at Lakeview, modern technology is crucial to learning. Another big part with technology is communication. Teachers and Students apply technology everyday to communicate. First there’s an application called Emaill. This is used so teachers and students don’t have to go across the whole school to get a message to one another. Basically Email is electronic mail. It plainly is a more efficient way to mail a letter. Next there’s PowerSchool. PowerSchool is online grades. Now students don’t have to wait for their grades. As soon as tests and assignments are graded, the teacher immediately puts their grade in PowerSchool, and the student can see it anytime. This makes improving much easier because students don’t have to wait to see their grades. Another way to communicate is 1:1. This is when every student in the school building gets a laptop. (A typewriter with a screen to see what you care doing while you don’t need paper.) This reduces using paper to help save trees, which is a big problem in the 21st Century. It will also make doing homework easier because you’ll have everything in one place therefore it’s

There is a constant stream of technology in every direction. Everyday life revolves around technology, which has generously influenced today’s generation in many positive and negative ways. Students have the world at their fingertips. Anything can be found with a swipe of a finger or a click of a button. They want the newest phones, tablets, laptops, and other gadgets, while parents struggle to keep their children’s attention. Students cannot go a minute without their phones, let alone a week. Therefore, many schools plan to participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week,” which is a week where students would unplug from technology. Bayless High School should not enforce the national “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because technology allow students to interact with others easily, to gather information quicker, and to help increase brain activity for users.

warrant: It is evident in many successful schools the heavy use of the internet in school, because the internet has an enormous pool of usage. Successful schools, such as Palm Desert High School, are built upon technology which help students achieve higher standards than what textbooks alone can offer.

Montgomery Township is claimed to have some of the best schools in the country with many coming for its stellar education. This is due in part by with the new technology that was introduced, such as touchscreen desktop computers, chromebooks, and smartboards. However, it was not so long ago that this high tech was not present. Some in the Montgomery Upper Middle School(MUMS) say that the schools should go technology free for one week, saying that it will improve students emotionally and socially, while others claim that students will not be able to perform academically to the best of their abilities. This tech free week is a great idea because it can help student’s physically and academically, demonstrating that when technology takes over

“Most large-scale evaluations have found mixed or no results for one-to-one initiatives. After five years of implementation of the largest One-to-One initiative in the United States, Maine's statewide program, evaluations found little effect on student achievement—with one exception, writing, where scores edged up 3.44 points” (Goodwin). One-to-One’s primary goal is through the use of technology, a modified classroom construction would engage a wider range of students allowing them to become more technologically literate. With the use of the One-to-One program, teachers would be able to work in small groups while other students work at their own pace on personalized computer activities. If school districts would adopt such an extraordinary

Students and parents living in public housing have difficulty accessing computers due to the parent’s lack of income. A direct result of having a lack of computer access for students results in low grades primarily around the C to D range. The organization, HACA is increasing the amount of opportunities for families to support their students so they will be able to excel in their education and integrate families into the school community. Technology will assist with communication to the families and students from the school campus. The communication is the key to parental involvement and their involvement is the key to the student’s success and ability to learn. HACA has initiated numerous programs for the families and their students. And through the creation of a website, parents and students will be able to learn more about their student’s homework, school expectations, and open communication directly with the teachers and administrators when an issue arises. The reality of a website is parents who are not technologically savvy or no access to a computer will continue to have a difficult time using the HACA website, completing complex forms, and uncomfortable with the gifted are going to have a difficult time using the HACA website and filling out complex forms

The Hempfield Area School District has board policy – number 215, which outlines attendance and disciplinary issues. The district also publishes a handbook that outlines those attendance and disciplinary items in detail. However, other than a mention of a successful student needs to be in school there seems to be no school related policies or publications that directly tie attendance to grades.

When most people hear about online schooling, they think about the ability to wake up at anytime, to wear pajamas while doing classwork, and to learn in the comforts of their own home. Albeit the idea of online schooling may seem glamorous, recent findings display unsatisfactory results from students in the virtual classroom. With certain states advocating for the online school’s access to AP classes and credit recovery, the presence of online schooling expands rapidly. However, doubts for the value of digital learning proliferates, warning parents to regard this alternative with caution. In Sean Coughlan’s “Online schools ‘worse than traditional teachers,’” he discusses the insufficient results of online schooling whereas Daphne Koller advocates for the usage of online schooling in “The Future of College: It’s Online.” By using ethos,

There are many distractions online that students can access, yet the students are aware of the technology around them and they know how to use it for their advantage. The movie demonstrates the students using various types of technology. However, students are not using it as distraction. Instead, the students are well involved in the technological building and finding ways to contribute to their community. Technology in classrooms is proven to be a good thing.

Students who have access to computers have more resources at their disposal and will be able to succeed easier than other students. Gerry Smith who has a Masters degree at Northwestern writes that an estimated 100 million people in the United States are without computers or internet access. Smith talks about a girl named Jillian Maldonado and the struggles that she goes though just to get her assignments finished and to turn them in. Jillian is a single mother and must walk to her job and school because she can not afford a vehicle or public transportation. She has to walk three miles to her local library to type and submit her paper. She might not be in High School but just think many students are not allowed able to drive or afford public transportation and this is basically what they must go though just to do their school work. With the schools providing laptops to their students they will not have to struggle with walking or looking for a place just to turn in their

Most modern day schools heavily include the internet and other technologies into their lesson plans for research, assessments, and other school related activities. Many of these schools have internet filters, these filters restrict access to any website the school deems inappropriate for student viewing. These school internet filters are put in place to protect the student by preventing access to harmful sites; however, these filters also block important information as well as block important information and stop teachers and administration from monitoring students’ online activities to ensure their safety. School internet filters are too restrictive.

Schools are recognizing this advancement in technology, and are trying to accomplish involvement to help students elaborate on their school work. The unfortunate side to this remarkable advancement in technology, it is giving an easier and more appealing way to cheat. Students have found creative ways to cheat including color coding with candy, pictures sent from cellular devices, and Pictures saved to a student's wallpaper on their cell phone. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost. A student who decides to take the “easy road” never recognizes their true potential. Their academic Achievements mean nothing,and they have to depend on other people and outside sources. For the student who studies every night works hard in and out of the classroom will receive the same job opportunities. Two of which have the same qualification and connections one will have earned it more. Fairness and equality will not be existent in the problem. The student that worked hard through school just to have been cheated off of will receive the same diploma. Today earning a diploma is just a piece of paper. The academic process is being made a mockery of the people who are not willing to put in the time or the effort into their school

There has been an eleven percent increase in the number of students receiving free and reduced lunch within the last five years. The school district recognizes the parent’s financial hardships but also recognizes the importance of technology in the educational process. In response to the need to increase technology accessibility in the lives of students HCS issues ipads to students in the third, fifth and seventh grades. All students in fifth through twelfth grades will receive ipads by 2018. The school systems strong stance in support of technology has extended to employees and schools as well. Every school must have a Facebook page and twitter account. Each teacher is required to have a class website. The district believes that the use of technology makes it accessible to parents and

When I began teaching in 1991, computer labs were used to teach a few high school students basic programming skills. These labs were mostly off-limits to middle school teachers, and computers were all but non-existent in the school libraries. The boom in government funding of technological incentives that began in the mid 1990’s gave school districts access to cyberspace via the Internet, and that has made a sudden and tremendous impact on American elementary and secondary education. According to Empower America’s Jason Bertsch in his March, 2000 testimony to the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, public school access to the Internet increased from 35% in 1994 to 95% in 1999. He further noted that between 1998 and 1999 the ratio of students to computers dropped from 12:1 to 9:1 in that year alone. (“The Role of Technology,” 2000, p.1). This represents a huge shift in school funding and focus and the reasons for such dramatic change are largely fear-driven. Americans are inundated with media coverage of our students’ “poor” placing in math and science testing against students from other nations, as well as against achievement by American students from years past. It is no small coincidence, then, that the mantra most often recited as reason for wiring the schools is “[to prepare our students] for the demands of the hi-tech twenty-first century,”