Post 19 -C- Technology Enhances Creativity

This particular article is about Brillion High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The school has started an particular approach/method to giving technology to the students in their school. They wanted to show them technology, not as a means for lecture and teaching, but by a tool to create an environment for creative thinking. The article talks about the technology class scenario, but this class is different because it allows students to use technology to create things rather than just hammer and nail and bird house together. The philosophy of the school in using technology every area is to create and develop innovative and creative thinkers and problem solvers who can go to further education or enter the world of work. They don't want there students just focusing on using technology to enhance the visual design of their project, but to use technology to make, research, and ultimately surround their project. They want to show their students the how much fun technology can be in the real world scenarios and hopefully encourage these high school students to choose a career path on their experiences with using these particular technologies in the classroom. Brillion high is very progressive in their future thinking and everything they attempt to do is based on design and invention with technology and their ability to adapt to the new ideas and progressive nature is huge.

This article really jumps out to me in that schools are focusing their whole direction and future plans with technology at the back bone. They are turning their school into a student driven focus of using technology to solve problems, instead of using to technology to enhance the design of a project. The school is preparing students for their future and their career's. The program has jumped from 70, just 3 years ago, to about 350 presently and it is growing bigger every year. A local company has donated a huge portion of money to enhance the technology center in the school and that makes a huge difference to the community. It shows them that even their local companies are focusing on technology and how important it is to a students education (they also probably had other motives too). I have never had the opportunity in my high school career to use technology in such a way that is breaking ground today. But i am thankful that my lack of technology experience has come to an end and as a future teacher, i am progressing ever so slowly into the direction that education needs to be heading in.

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