Anonymous wrote:

We were told last night [Imagineering Tech] is not part of the art rotation. Those are four 9 week courses.

Imagineering tech is a semester course. I can’t figure out what it is supposed to go with.

You weren't listening. They said that if you pick Imagineering Tech, your child will do that for a semester, though not necessarily fall. For the other 2 quarters, they will be randomly assigned to one of the Unified Arts classes. So they will take two of the following (but you don't get any say in which 2 of the 5):

Studio Art
Coding Engineer Robotic Design
Information Communication Technology
General Music
Awareness of Language & Culture

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even though confusing, I appreciate the information, older DC middle school has no such info session, she just get asked to pick a language ( French/Spanish) and which arts elective Art/band/orchestra/chorus. I guess the rest are all recommended by ES, we were not aware of the different English/math/social science tracks

Also they just put her in Spanish 1ab without any discussion about full year 1a/1b option
so I learned a lot in this JW session

We were told last night [Imagineering Tech] is not part of the art rotation. Those are four 9 week courses.

Imagineering tech is a semester course. I can’t figure out what it is supposed to go with.


You weren't listening. They said that if you pick Imagineering Tech, your child will do that for a semester, though not necessarily fall. For the other 2 quarters, they will be randomly assigned to one of the Unified Arts classes. So they will take two of the following (but you don't get any say in which 2 of the 5):

Studio Art
Coding Engineer Robotic Design
Information Communication Technology
General Music
Awareness of Language & Culture


General Music?

So MCPS is requiring a Tech class at some MSs (though apparently not at West?) and is forcing kids out of Band so that they get stuck in a General Music class?

Anonymous wrote:Even though confusing, I appreciate the information, older DC middle school has no such info session, she just get asked to pick a language ( French/Spanish) and which arts elective Art/band/orchestra/chorus. I guess the rest are all recommended by ES, we were not aware of the different English/math/social science tracks

Anonymous wrote:

We were told last night [Imagineering Tech] is not part of the art rotation. Those are four 9 week courses.

Imagineering tech is a semester course. I can’t figure out what it is supposed to go with.

You weren't listening. They said that if you pick Imagineering Tech, your child will do that for a semester, though not necessarily fall. For the other 2 quarters, they will be randomly assigned to one of the Unified Arts classes. So they will take two of the following (but you don't get any say in which 2 of the 5):

Studio Art
Coding Engineer Robotic Design
Information Communication Technology
General Music
Awareness of Language & Culture

We were told last night [Imagineering Tech] is not part of the art rotation. Those are four 9 week courses.

Imagineering tech is a semester course. I can’t figure out what it is supposed to go with.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi,
I am the JW Design and Technology teacher.

Let me clear some things up for 2020-2021 as far as the engineering courses go. All courses are aligned to IB:MYP and NGSS.

6th grade: Arts rotation. 1 quarter. "Robotics Programming and Design." We plan to be using the new Lego Prime Kits programmed on chromebooks. Depending on student interest we may also be building a hydraulic arm.

7th Grade: There is no more more arts rotation (rotation of one quarter electives.) The 7th grade engineering class elective is one semester. Called Living with Technology. Focused on design, structure, Forces, measurement, and data analysis. Some CAD and 3D printing as options.

8th Grade: One semester. Earth and Space Technology. Major focus on science of flight, design and related projects. We basically go through the history of human flight. CAD use required for all students.

Thanks for the clarification JW design teacher.

7th and 8th grade tech is one semester. What are their options for the other semester?

I am not sure. It depends on the grade level. I don’t much about the art or music courses. I know that 8th grade has a one semester programming class. I think there is a “theater 2” class for 7th grade. The Imagineering Tech course is a revamp of the current digital literacy course. I don’t know much about it. The name is confusing to me as well for various reasons. My very limited understanding is that a lot of the changes are driven by the increasing student population and because of the state requirements for a “well rounded curriculum” requiring all students to tech a computation thinking course as well as an art course. There is a broad list of county courses that fit the requirements and schools are trying to make sure that any electives offered are coming from that list.

Imagineering Tech is not a revamped Digital Literacy. It is about filmmaking. At least that is what the write up says. Digital Literacy is in place on a language elective.

Man, you would think JW would have a much clearer description of what is offered. Everyone here, including me is confused.

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Thank you for correcting me.

? JWMS teacher is confused. Imagine how the parents feel. Dear me, they are incompetent. And normally, I defend JW.

Is the Imagineering class going to be like the other tech class where the kids play on the computer for most of the class? That's what my kids said they did.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi,
I am the JW Design and Technology teacher.

Let me clear some things up for 2020-2021 as far as the engineering courses go. All courses are aligned to IB:MYP and NGSS.

6th grade: Arts rotation. 1 quarter. "Robotics Programming and Design." We plan to be using the new Lego Prime Kits programmed on chromebooks. Depending on student interest we may also be building a hydraulic arm.

7th Grade: There is no more more arts rotation (rotation of one quarter electives.) The 7th grade engineering class elective is one semester. Called Living with Technology. Focused on design, structure, Forces, measurement, and data analysis. Some CAD and 3D printing as options.

8th Grade: One semester. Earth and Space Technology. Major focus on science of flight, design and related projects. We basically go through the history of human flight. CAD use required for all students.

Thanks for the clarification JW design teacher.

7th and 8th grade tech is one semester. What are their options for the other semester?

I am not sure. It depends on the grade level. I don’t much about the art or music courses. I know that 8th grade has a one semester programming class. I think there is a “theater 2” class for 7th grade. The Imagineering Tech course is a revamp of the current digital literacy course. I don’t know much about it. The name is confusing to me as well for various reasons. My very limited understanding is that a lot of the changes are driven by the increasing student population and because of the state requirements for a “well rounded curriculum” requiring all students to tech a computation thinking course as well as an art course. There is a broad list of county courses that fit the requirements and schools are trying to make sure that any electives offered are coming from that list.

Imagineering Tech is not a revamped Digital Literacy. It is about filmmaking. At least that is what the write up says. Digital Literacy is in place on a language elective.

Man, you would think JW would have a much clearer description of what is offered. Everyone here, including me is confused.

.
Thank you for correcting me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi,
I am the JW Design and Technology teacher.

Let me clear some things up for 2020-2021 as far as the engineering courses go. All courses are aligned to IB:MYP and NGSS.

6th grade: Arts rotation. 1 quarter. "Robotics Programming and Design." We plan to be using the new Lego Prime Kits programmed on chromebooks. Depending on student interest we may also be building a hydraulic arm.

7th Grade: There is no more more arts rotation (rotation of one quarter electives.) The 7th grade engineering class elective is one semester. Called Living with Technology. Focused on design, structure, Forces, measurement, and data analysis. Some CAD and 3D printing as options.

8th Grade: One semester. Earth and Space Technology. Major focus on science of flight, design and related projects. We basically go through the history of human flight. CAD use required for all students.

Thanks for the clarification JW design teacher.

7th and 8th grade tech is one semester. What are their options for the other semester?

I am not sure. It depends on the grade level. I don’t much about the art or music courses. I know that 8th grade has a one semester programming class. I think there is a “theater 2” class for 7th grade. The Imagineering Tech course is a revamp of the current digital literacy course. I don’t know much about it. The name is confusing to me as well for various reasons. My very limited understanding is that a lot of the changes are driven by the increasing student population and because of the state requirements for a “well rounded curriculum” requiring all students to tech a computation thinking course as well as an art course. There is a broad list of county courses that fit the requirements and schools are trying to make sure that any electives offered are coming from that list.

Imagineering Tech is not a revamped Digital Literacy. It is about filmmaking. At least that is what the write up says. Digital Literacy is in place on a language elective.

Man, you would think JW would have a much clearer description of what is offered. Everyone here, including me is confused.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi,
I am the JW Design and Technology teacher.

Let me clear some things up for 2020-2021 as far as the engineering courses go. All courses are aligned to IB:MYP and NGSS.

6th grade: Arts rotation. 1 quarter. "Robotics Programming and Design." We plan to be using the new Lego Prime Kits programmed on chromebooks. Depending on student interest we may also be building a hydraulic arm.

7th Grade: There is no more more arts rotation (rotation of one quarter electives.) The 7th grade engineering class elective is one semester. Called Living with Technology. Focused on design, structure, Forces, measurement, and data analysis. Some CAD and 3D printing as options.

8th Grade: One semester. Earth and Space Technology. Major focus on science of flight, design and related projects. We basically go through the history of human flight. CAD use required for all students.

Thanks for the clarification JW design teacher.

7th and 8th grade tech is one semester. What are their options for the other semester?

I am not sure. It depends on the grade level. I don’t much about the art or music courses. I know that 8th grade has a one semester programming class. I think there is a “theater 2” class for 7th grade. The Imagineering Tech course is a revamp of the current digital literacy course. I don’t know much about it. The name is confusing to me as well for various reasons. My very limited understanding is that a lot of the changes are driven by the increasing student population and because of the state requirements for a “well rounded curriculum” requiring all students to tech a computation thinking course as well as an art course. There is a broad list of county courses that fit the requirements and schools are trying to make sure that any electives offered are coming from that list.