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Technology

At St. Matthew’s, we believe technology should be seamlessly woven into the learning process, enhancing curriculum across disciplines and grade levels, and providing students with the skills to use computer technology in ways that will benefit them now and in the future.

St. Matthew’s is committed to maintaining state-of-the-art facilities. Our computer and media center has 22 Dell computers and a Smartboard©—an interactive whiteboard that turns the facilitator’s computer into a powerful tool for interactive instruction and multi-media presentations. Computers are located in every classroom in order to provide students and faculty with tools that are representative of the technologically sophisticated age in which we live.

A computer network providing Internet access as well as e-mail and other applications connects the computer lab and all classrooms. Instagate Firewall is installed on all internet accessible computers and insures that our students can safely navigate the internet. Instructional computer classes at all grade levels allow students to explore a variety of age-appropriate software and learn keyboarding, database management, PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, graphics production, and use of the Internet. Teachers in the upper grades incorporate research skills and projects that require library and computer lab use into their respective curriculums.

Hand-Held Responders used for Accelerated Math & Class Assignments

In 2007, St. Matthew’s Episcopal School upgraded Accelerated Reader and purchased Accelerated Math from Renaissance Learning. Our upgrade in AR ensures that every book Renaissance Learning has for scoring is now available to our students.

The purchase of Accelerated Math allows our students to become proficient at math skills moving at their own pace. Students complete a computer-generated exercise from objectives the teacher selected for the class (objectives can also be tailor set for individual students). The exercise is taken by either a scantron (first grade) or a hand-held responder (second through seventh grade). The computer scores the exercise and determines if the student can move on to other objectives or if more practice is needed on the current objectives. The teacher monitors the progress and the recommendation for remediation or advancement. Accelerated Math is used in addition to the current math curriculum.

The classroom responder used in Accelerated Math is a hand-held computer linked to the web-based program via radio frequencies to a server connected to the classroom computer. The responder can also be used with AccelTest, a program local to the classroom computer. The teachers use AccelTest to create in-class assignments, quizzes, etc. Again, the computer scores the exercise from AccelTest, but the teacher determines how to handle the results.