Technology

As many new generations grow up with the use of technology all around them, we became aware of the need to teach our students how to use it in their everyday lives to achieve success in their future. As a result, Queen of Peace Catholic Academy decided to launch the 1:1 iPad initiative for our middle school students.

Our technology vision includes three main goals. Each goal helps us focus on what we exactly want our students to learn while using the iPad. Our first goal of becoming better collaborators led to us finding new ways for our students and teachers to work together to gain and understand objectives and key concepts. Our second goal to become better communicators gave us an understanding that students needed to learn how to communicate and engage in a way that was very different than how students had communicated before technology. Our third goal was to help our students become more creative and innovative. This in turn led to our teachers and staff continuously growing and designing their curriculum to challenge and engage their students with the use of technology and instructional practices.

As we continue this program we have noticed even more additional benefits than what we first thought. All students are able to learn in a conducive learning environment that best meets their needs and learning styles. Our students with accommodations have access to personal learning tools such as closed-captioning, text to speech, Learning Ally, and so much more.

We are excited to see what the future holds with our technology program and the academic growth in our students.