Offering real life experiences is a goal of ours at J.R. Gerritts Middle School. We encourage our students to become life long learners and develop skills to help them take charge of their own learning and to create their own learning opportunities.
The Computer Applications Department at J.R. Gerritts Middle School is designed to prepare our students for the 21st Century. Students are engaging in technical applications more and more and we strive to make sure our students are ready.
We not only teach the technical abilities, but also the less concrete aspects. We teach our students how to critically think through a task, work in teams collaboratively and how to reach out to the global community using the technology readily available to us.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Creativity and Problem Solving

In the past I have written about the book "Don't Bother Me Mom - I'm Learning" by Marc Prensky which discusses how video games can be very beneficial for our kids. (within reason of course). Today I want to share three sites/programs I know most kids would love to explore! They provide an opportunity for students to play games and ultimately create their own! Creativity and problem-solving at its best! I encourage all of you to take a look at them: http://gamestarmechanic.com/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/
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