1.4 Students Using Digital Technology

Self-Assessment: Model

Digital technology serves as an essential pillar of teaching and learning at Wellcome Middle School. Across all grade levels and subject areas, at least 75% of our teachers consistently design learning experiences that require students to identify, evaluate, and use digital tools aligned to the learning goals. This occurs through daily opportunities to create products, think critically, solve authentic problems, explore relevant issues, communicate ideas, and collaborate with peers in digital environments.

Our blended learning model ensures that digital tools are not supplemental, but fully embedded into instruction. As a 1:1 Chromebook school, every student has reliable access to technology throughout the day. Canvas, our districtwide learning management system, is used universally by teachers to organize instruction, deliver content, collect assignments, and facilitate digital discussions. Students routinely navigate Canvas to access multimedia resources, analyze data, demonstrate understanding, and engage in collaborative tasks.

In STEM-related content areas, the integration of digital tools is even more intentional and discipline-specific. More than 75% of our STEM teachers incorporate specialized digital resources and applications that enhance inquiry-based learning and mirror real-world professional practices. Examples include spreadsheet and data-analysis tools for scientific investigations, simulation platforms for testing scientific concepts, engineering and design software for prototyping, coding and robotics interfaces, and digital visualization tools to support mathematical reasoning. These tools allow students to engage in authentic STEM experiences: collecting data, evaluating findings, designing solutions, and refining models based on feedback.

Through this schoolwide commitment to purposeful digital integration, Wellcome Middle ensures that students build strong digital literacy, STEM fluency, and problem-solving skills that prepare them for future academic pathways and STEM careers. 

Digital Tools

• Edpuzzle

• Study Island

• Mystery Science 

• Flocabulary 

• Brainpop

• Canva

• Canvas

• Mastery Connect

• Classlink

• Newsela

• Paxton Patterson

• Nearpod

• Tinkercad

• Google Cardboard

• K'Nex (not a digital tool but often paired with digital tools)

• Makey Makey

• Snap Circuits

• LittleBits

• Sphero

• Paper Slides

• Green Screen 

• Lego

Wellcome Middle School teachers continue to have access to many common digital tools in the STEM field. 

The document above shows examples of digital technology use for both STEM and non-STEM subjects. This is not a comprehensive list and does not include the technology integration facilitated by the media coordinator that is mentioned above.