KID TECH DAY PRESENTERS
Brigantine Public Schools: Brigantine North Middle School
North Middle School students will demonstrate how activities in their
TV Studio support achievement in Visual Arts, Language Arts, Math and
Science.
Colts Neck Public Schools: Cedar Drive Middle School
Colts Neck
students will demonstrate their first place entry in the State of New
Jersey "Future City" competition, where students
designed a city of the future using SimCity software, blueprints and
a scale model.
Cranford Public Schools: Brookside Place School
Fifth-graders
will demonstrate their "Online Discussion Forum," an
Internet bulletin board that students use to facilitate Social Studies
discussions.
East Brunswick Public Schools: Hammerskjold Middle School
Seventh-grade students combine Social Studies and Computer Studies activities
in the development of multimedia research presentations. They use MS
Word and PowerPoint as the vehicle for the creation of their multimedia
presentations.
Hunterdon Central Regional High School District: Hunterdon Central
Regional High School
Hunterdon will demonstrate the use of Weblogs (online personal journals)
in increasing student participation and engagement in language arts literacy.
Jersey City Public Schools: Cornelia F. Bradford (PS 16) Elementary
School
Jersey City first-graders will demonstrate how they use technology to
author, illustrate and publish their stories.
Newark Public Schools/Stevens Institute Center for Improved Engineering
and Science Education (CIESE): High Tech Work Force Excellence K-12
Partnership Program
Newark’s students will present their experiences
with the High Tech Work Force Excellence K-12 Partnership Program,
in which Newark
partnered with the Stevens Institute Center for Improved Engineering
and Science Education (CIESE). This program resulted in a 20 percent
increase in science scores in 2004 in participating schools.
Oxford Township Public Schools: Oxford Central School
Among other activities, STAR-W student participants use blogs (online
personal journals) to discuss, analyze and develop open-ended discussions
with their peers in the classroom and across the country as part of their
Read Across America project. The NJDOE Students Using Technology To
Achieve Reading – Writing (STAR-W)grant program is designed
to increase student achievement in language arts literacy in grades three
through five by providing classroom teachers with ongoing professional
development and in-class support that focuses on integrating technology
into the curriculum and instruction.
Paterson Public Schools: ACE+ Center
The mobile van of Paterson’s
ACE+ Center will be on display at Kid Tech Day. The ACE+(Access~Collaboration~Equity Plus)grant
program is designed to increase student achievement in language arts
literacy while also helping to bridge the "digital divide" in
New Jersey through staff-supported off-hours access to additional educational
technology.
Pemberton Township Board of Education: Alexander Denbo School
As part of their STAR-W grant activities, students use mobile laptop
labs, color printers and digital cameras to publish their writings in
newsletters and magazines.
Stafford Township School District: McKinley Avenue & Stafford
Intermediate Schools
Stafford’s STAR-W grant activities will
be presented. Students in the Stafford program use AlphaSmarts and
Plasma Display Screens to
explore language arts, social studies and mathematics.
Trenton Public Schools: Woodrow Wilson Elementary School
Trenton’s
Woodrow Wilson fourth-graders will demonstrate how they use Microsoft
PowerPoint and Excel, as well as digital imaging, in their
Math, Language Arts and Science activities.
Warren County School District: Warren County Voc Tech
Warren’s "Technology for All" program
will be presented. Every ninth-grade student receives a handheld computer
with portable
keyboard and floppy disk drive. This gives every student instant access
to a graphing calculator, word processor, database, test prep tool and
reference resource in every classroom and in every home.
Winslow Township School District: Winslow Public School #5
Winslow’s
STAR-W and ACE + grant activities will be presented. Students will demonstrate
their use of electronic portfolios.