Hopes+for+the+Future

=__Hopes for the Future__=
 * Removing the lecture down approach to learning and teaching the skills sets of critical thinking, collaboration and creativity to learn how to assess, use and create with the ubiquitious information that is now at everyone's finger tips.
 * Realizing that technology is an enhancement of teaching curriculum. It will never replace the "REAL" teacher....It is a mistake to think technology is the key to improving instruction without first, as the teacher, deciding the concepts you want to teach, how you will get the students intimately involved in the material, and how the student (and you) will assess that the "job" has been done. To design the lesson around the technology available (for the sake of using the technology) is detrimental to the learning process.

=Website Ideas for St. Thomas of Canterbury=
 * each individual class/level has a webpage with teachers having access to change the page, or would we need to send items to the webmaster
 * gradebook on the webpage, such as Edline
 * school calendar online
 * digitized forms online for parents to access
 * school generated emails jsmith@stthomas.org for example