SLC Technology
Seashore Learning Center recognizes that technology is an integral part of today’s society. A technology plan was developed to reflect the changing needs of its students, new expectations of society, and the aspiration to achieve new levels of excellence. These new technologies enable teachers to teach more effectively, and to enhance student learning opportunities in remarkable ways.
SLC believes that technology is an enabling tool that the school can use to help effectively deliver a broad and enriching curriculum to its student body. Student activities may include Internet investigations of museums, zoos, cultural events, political organizations, etc. Students also create web-based research reports, multi-media presentations, and presentation-grade graphs and charts using Microsoft business applications.
Seashore’s teachers are using Microsoft technologies like PowerPoint, Encarta, and Excel to enhance student learning. Teachers are using this technology to create multimedia projects that arouse student curiosity, which may lead to “outside-of-class” discovery. Each of these projects can be made to reinforce and inculcate various intellectual skills, in addition to satisfying certain cognitive needs for quality learning.
A Microsoft-driven database safely houses Seashore Learning Center’s student records, curriculum, attendance, and skills checklist. Files are backed-up daily for redundancy. The database allows teachers and administrators to easily make specific reports, queries, and changes to important files.
School communication is helped through a networked campus. Teachers, administrators, and parents remain in close contact through email. Also, parents may retrieve important information and forms from the Island Foundation / Seashore Learning Center web sites.