Integrating Technology

At IOS, you will not find our students playing video games on a computer, but you may find a class working on a stop action animation to present their take away from a water cycle unit of study.  You may find a web cam aimed at newly hatched chicks, so the children can check on them over the weekend.  You will see older students doing research for their independent study projects.  You will see kids documenting their outside investigations with cameras.  You may see kids watching a Brain Pop video about erosion before spreading out to collect logs and rocks to build check dams.  You may hear soothing music coming from an ipod dock as children write stories, or hear Otis Redding in the kitchen as the students unload the dishwasher.  We know kids like to play video games.  We just don't think that is what they need to be doing at school.