Technology at St. Paul’s School
Mission Statement
Living, learning, teaching and working successfully in an increasingly complex and information-rich society, entails the use of information and communication resources. Thus, St. Paul's School will use technology to enhance and expand its pedagogy and educational goals, and to enrich all school processes including curriculum, administration and school life.
Curricular Use
The Pre-first through fourth grade computer curriculum focuses on the use of the computer as a tool to facilitate learning. Instruction is integrated into all areas of the curriculum. As the student moves through the Lower School he/she will use a word processor and multimedia software, understand a spreadsheet, run and interact with simple software, and perform searches using various library databases. A significant amount of time in the second, third, and fourth grades is spent developing keyboarding skills, which are essential to the successful use of the computer.
CompuDesks or laptops at each seat in most Middle School classrooms provide flexible, ubiquitous computing, and access in all subject areas. Computers are used for research, project presentation, and simulations. Subject specific software is used in Math and Japanese. Work can be continued at home through the Citrix system and Moodle.
Students in the Upper School have use of a computer lab and school-owned and personal laptops throughout the day for independent work and classroom projects. Subject specific software is used in most subject areas and a state of the art language lab is used by the Modern Language courses to enhance speaking and listening skills. Students have access to school software and their data off campus through the Citrix system and Moodle.
Infrastructure
SPnet, an extensive campus area network, contains over 500 networked Windows computers, 16 file servers and more than 120 printers. Eight buildings are networked together via a fiber optic 1 GB backbone, and each classroom in the academic buildings has a ceiling mounted multi-media projector.
The Lower School has a computer lab of twenty-two computers and a library with eight computers. Each classroom has at least one networked computer.
The Middle School uses Windows terminals with one in each desk (compudesks) or laptops in most classrooms, a windows computer on each teacher’s desk, and eight computers in the library.
The Upper School has a lab containing 22 terminals, eight computers in the library and a mobile lab containing 20 tablet computers. Ninth and tenth grade students (2007 – 08) are required to bring personal laptops to school
The software that is used is the Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet Explorer). In addition to the Office suite, course specific software is used
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