Learning, 21^st-Century Style

As part of our commitment to prepare our students for the promises and challenges of the 21^st century, Principia provides each Upper School student with a portable tablet computer. This tool enables teachers to deepen and extend learning activities, differentiate instruction to better meet students’ individual needs, and expand opportunities for students to collaborate with other learners in and beyond the classroom. Classrooms, the library and other academic areas, and all dorm rooms have high-speed wireless Internet access.

While technology is integrated throughout the curriculum, our courses are not defined by technology or dependent upon it. Rather, the tablets provide new avenues for students to engage in the thinking, analyzing, researching, expressing, and creating required by their study of art, music, math, English, science, history, government, and foreign language. Incorporating technology into the curriculum allows students to become producers of knowledge, not just consumers, while also enabling them to engage with their coursework in new ways. Elective technology classes available to Upper Schoolers include desktop publishing, video production, web page design, flash animation, and computer science.