Technology

Our technology mission at La Scuola states:

La Scuola empowers students to not only learn about technology, but also through technology, developing conceptual understandings and contributing to a prolific learning community within and outside the school, to eventually become conscious digital citizens.

The beauty of being in a Reggio Emilia approach environment is that the teachers and the students are free to learn and explore new languages every day.

From PreK onwards, the students learn and love coding and when they come to the Mission Campus, they start using robots in class. They are immediately attracted and interested in the program, because they see they can control the action of a small device. As the students grow in years, the more the challenges grow in interest. What happens when we start applying the coding concepts that we first used with the robots on the computer? How can we build a videogame? How can we create a website? Those are constant questions that our students ask and discover, enabling them to learn responsibility and respect in the digital world. Technology is surely a very important and fascinating language to use, and one of the main challenges that we adults have to teach is the amount of time we spend on digital devices. Especially after the COVID remote teaching period, students tend to use their device in a more independent way. For this reason, here at La Scuola we always try to implement technology in our daily school life and connect it with other languages in class. We always remind the students that technology is just a tool, and we need to enjoy our life outside the digital world.