The children of today are growing up in a world where technology is essential to everyday life. At East Primary, students are taught technology skills from the earliest days of education along with other essential life skills. This year, East Primary has opened a computer lab for the Pre-Kindergarten classes. This program uses recording and playback to help children with phonemic awareness, which is listening to the sounds that letters make.
Phonemic awareness is an essential first step in learning to read.
Lab facilitators, Jamie Moore and Noemi Chavez, don't just let the computer do all of the teaching, their 4 year-old students also learn about the computers themselves. They can identify the parts and functions of hard drives, floppy disks, printers, etc. They have amazed many adults with their knowledge, including the CEI representative. The technology learning does not stop at the Pre-K level. The Kindergarten classes also attend a CEI lab.