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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just looked on their website which suggests school incorporates technology into some lessons but did not suggest they were a paperless school, using google classrooms.  I don't know much about their program but it appears to use tech in moderation and in conjunction with a more traditional approach.  Having the kids make spreadsheets seems reasonable.  Any St John's parents who are reading this forum, please correct me if I am wrong![/quote]

Do you understand what google classroom is?  The fact that you wrote "google classrooms" makes me think that you don't.  That may be DCI's fault, as it sounds like they aren't explaining it very well.

Google classroom is a collection of computer programs which allows teachers and students to create assignments, and to send assignments to each other without printing them out (hence the term "paperless").   It also allows teachers to record and post grades, and do other grade keeping tasks like calculating averages, or keeping track of missing assignments..

So, in a school that uses google classroom, a teacher might use google docs to write up the directions for a project.  Students would then collect data in whatever way was appropriate (scientific experiment done hands on, or survey created using googleforms, or using paper or online tools to find out information about a topic) and then use google's spreadsheet app to create a spreadsheet, and googledocs to write a paper about what they learned from the spreadsheets.   They would share these documents with their teacher who would annotate them, grade them, and then send them back to the student.  The term paperless refers to the fact that the teacher doesn't print out the directions for the assignment, they simply post them, and the students don't print out the completed assignment, they email or share up upload it.  It doesn't mean that there's literally no paper in the school.  Kids in "paperless" schools can still read books, and paint pictures, and use paper to create 3D models in math class.  They can also engage in activities that involve neither the computer nor paper, like playing floor hockey in P.E., or conducting a physics experiment.

St. John's and other 1:1 schools, almost certainly have some kind of system to do the same thing, whether it's google classroom, or a product from another vendor, that does all these things too.

I'll add that I know nothing about the DCI program.  So, it's possible that kids are online 100% of the time, or that they're running things terribly there.  But the fact that they chose google classroom, instead of having students use a Microsoft Office, isn't the reason for that. [/quote]

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