Technology
Jesuit has about 600 working computers for student use located throughout the school, including computer labs, language classrooms, and the information commons.
Every classroom on campus is equipped with SmartBoards – large projection, touch-responsive computer interfaces.
All buildings on campus are Wi-Fi enabled for students, staff, or guests who choose to carry laptops or handheld devices.
Students use a number of technology-based learning environments through four years at Jesuit. The school uses Moodle, software which extends the classroom to the Internet for home access. Students and parents use NetClassroom to view grades or announcements online. The college search process is aided by Naviance, a web-based college information program. Jesuit faculty and staff are constantly looking for ways to incorporate technology into the Jesuit education.
Before the 2011-2012 school year, Jesuit faculty were given an opportunity to request iPads for classroom use. Jesuit continues to evaluate the value of a one-to-one educational program through the use of this kind of technology.
As of the 2012-2013 school year, all students and faculty were given iPads to use for the year, to cut down on textbook costs and having to carry around textbooks themselves.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)