Technology

Tools for Learning in Today’s World

Today’s learning environment is very different from the schools of yesteryear. In keeping pace with those changes Charterhouse is dedicated to providing their students with the current educational technologies for the the delivery of instruction.  Each classroom in Charterhouse has four or five networked workstations with internet access.  Students use these workstations complete a wide variety of assignments given by classroom teachers through out the year, such as, writing an English paper using Microsoft Word, designing a rocket and testing it’s flight for a Science assignment online at a NASA interactive website or doing research for a History project. 

Charterhouse subscribes to Discovery Education’s United Streaming which comprises of instructional videos in many subjects. Currently, our Science teachers deliver Science instruction across the workstation using the United Streaming videos. These videos are aligned with the Virginia Science SOL’s.

In addition to the classroom workstations, the school has a combination science and computer lab. Charterhouse students receive instruction using our computer technology twice a week.  Students receive instruction in the Microsoft office products including MS Word, Excel, Access, Publisher and PowerPoint. Other activities include making movies using Windows Movie Maker, creating digital collages, making web pages and career related projects. Additionally, students have one class per week doing remedial math in the computer lab with the Math teacher and the Technology teacher. In this class remedial math instruction and drilling is delivered by web sites on the internet.

At the end of each nine weeks SOL tests are administered by an online service across workstation desktop.  You can read more about the school’s alignment with the Virginia SOL’s here.