| Your Marquette Area Public Schools Education Foundation (MAPSEF) is proud to present the second and last installments to Marquette Area Public Schools for the purchase of Chromebooks used by every fifth grade student in the district. The check totaled $29,947.00 and was presented to MAPS at the Friday, September 12, 2014 Varsity Home Football Game during halftime. Grand total for fund raising was $79,947.00! MAPSEF extends a huge thank you for making this technology initiative possible in our local schools to community members that have donated. For more information contact T.I.M.E. Committee Chair Judy Vonck at 906-361-0167 and [email protected] or visit www.technologyinmarquetteeducation.weebly.com. |
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Look, these may not be our students but they are still a representation of how our students are sure to respond to some of the technologies we used to LOVE! Take a quick look at this ABC blog post, Hilarious Video: Kids React to Old Computers. The video strongly suggests that our community must take action on the words of Superintendent Saunders in his late-April 2014 community update, "MAPS students are steadily falling behind their peers in the necessary computer skills to prepare them for college and work readiness." Our schools must prepare each child for the world outside the classroom by being able to keep up inside the classroom. This will allow for our students to successfully compete with their peers locally, across the state, through out the nation and on a global scale. The fact that technology advances so quickly we have to give our students T.I.M.E. in all ways possible. After all "IT's about T.I.M.E." |