Monday, February 10, 2025
Gardiners Avenue Elementary School students are learning real-world technology skills, which was the focus of the academic presentation at the Jan. 8 meeting of the Levittown Board of Education.
Members of the Google Applied Digital Skills Club, which meets on Monday mornings before school, shared how they get to be innovative and creative through technology. New Language teacher Erin McCall advises the club, which is in its second year. The purpose of the club is to promote creativity, digital literacy and problem-solving. Students have access to their projects through the Google Classroom learning platform and create a digital portfolio as they make projects from the choice board. They shared some of their work this year, including animations and comic strips made with Google Slides and photo journals completed in Google Docs.
Participants in the Google Applied Digital Skills Club describe themselves as a “community of innovators.” While projects are typically done independently, students worked collaboratively in helping each other learn the tools and capabilities of the different programs.
