https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm62oHvWTgg What do you want to learn while you're in school? What kinds of skills would you love to have? How do you want to begin your career? With Career & Technical Education students can explore professions, master skills that match their interests, ...
computer
Smartphone Snares: How Kids Use Their Devices
Keeping track of how preteens and teens use smartphones is a difficult task, but the pitfalls of the digital age leave us no choice. Aside from potentially problematic apps, parents should be aware of time spent on a device, parent controls, acronyms/slang, and the common behaviors of young ...
Handful of students trade summer play for computer code training worth $10K
For the average teen, summer is precious time away from school to play, travel, or start a summer job. It’s hard to imagine something that could entice a high school student enough to forgo trips and recreation to head back into the classroom for nine weeks between June and ...
Granite rolls out Bus Ad Contest for students
Students, think you have what it takes to design a real advertisement? Granite School District CTE and Communications departments are seeking student-designed advertisements to be place on school buses. This is a great opportunity to for young designers to take their skills to the next level and ...
21st Century Learning: Communication
The modern classroom leverages technology to support student learning. This is best accomplished when technology is woven into the curriculum in such a way that the tool promotes the desired learning outcome. With new technologies like Chromebooks entering the classroom, it is vital that these ...
The future of computer technology is in good hands
For most of us, a computer crash is one of the most frustrating things we encounter. But for a group of students at Hunter High, technology glitches are a welcome challenge. Those who witnessed Hunter's annual Fastest Geeks competition last week were amazed at the level of expertise displayed by ...
Customer Service Star – Impacting all of us
This week we have a double Customer Service Star to award to two network technicians in the Information Systems Support Center. “Matt Becherer and Ian Walden are the most highly skilled and capable infrastructure connectivity gurus. The job is all too often dirty and demanding, and requires ...
SAGE: Utah’s new end-of-year test
This year marks the transition away from the longstanding Criterion Reference Tests (CRTs) to a new rigorous exam presented in a technologically advanced fashion. The Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) is an online adaptive test that was custom-built to measure students’ ...
Students go head-to-head to determine who’s the “Fastest Geek”
Today’s quiz: Restore this inert computer to full working order in less than two minutes. Sounds like the worst test of your life, right? Well, it was perhaps the most enjoyable task for a group of tech-savvy students at Hunter High School. As part of the annual Fastest Geeks competition ...