New Tech Learning for Nanakuli High
As an innovation to the education methods and techniques of Hawaii’s Nanakuli High School moves into high-tech learning. High School students will experience a new and out of the box learning style made possible by technology.
Incoming Nanakuli freshmen will test-drive brand new laptops as supplementary to their education. With a one laptop per student, new tech learning will take every high school to a new perspective in classroom learning.
The technology had been embraced by more than more than 62 schools around the country and this year, Nanakuli will take on the new technology learning as well as Waianae Public high schools
Teachers are much exited to see such innovation take place while students very eager to click on their laptops and study their first lessons digitally.
The entire freshman class of 150 at Nanakuli High School will be participating in the New Tech Program while about 200 freshmen at Waianae high school will follow the model.
New Tech program had been chosen because of its brought-upon benefits. The model aims at turning around low-performing schools, fostering economic development in communities, and encouraging students to pursue careers in science, math and engineering.
The students will work in groups on problem-based projects with teacher as facilitators enabling students too seek out what they need to know and by being told what to know.
In order to experience such innovation, schools must pay $450,000 for four years of support, professional development and guidance from the New Tech Network, a subsidiary of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation.
Donations were carried by Kamehameha Schools for the school’s enrollment with the New Tech program while the Department of Education, neighboring public elementary schools and Kamehameha itself help in funding $350,000 to buy new laptops for Nanakuli.
Nanakuli and Waianae High Schools are considered a zone for innovation by the Department of Education. The New Tech Program is a high school program expected to improve attendance, graduation rates and student test scores.