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Digital integration at Elgin Park Secondary School will assist us in providing meaningful learning opportunities for our students in an effort to meet our school goals. Our school plan is built on departmental support of our school goals. This support is developed by individual departments. Our school plan will continue to reflect an ongoing commitment to improving student learning and the addition of digital integration as a school focus.

Goal #1: To improve achievement for all students, with a particular focus on those at-risk, by providing opportunities to make positive connections.
 * provide students with real time, authentic, engaging learning situations
 * promote inquiry based and active learning opportunities for students to develop their problem solving and critical thinking skills
 * make connections between all students and their learning by providing differentiated instruction
 * provide for more integration of LST and ELL learners in the classroom by using the available technology to support their individual needs
 * develop critical thinkers who have the ability to evaluate resources and information in a complex digital world

Goal #2: To increase students' understanding of social responsibility at Elgin Park Secondary by supporting classroom and school wide initiatives that foster citizenship and encourage the physical, emotional, and intellectual development of all.


 * develop an understanding of intellectual property and copyright rules that govern the use of information
 * develop learning activities throughout the curriculum that focus on the ethical use of information, such as bibliographies, parenthetical referencing, and creative commons licensing
 * promote and instruct students about ethical behaviour in digital environments, such as social networks and collaborative tools
 * build authentic connections between students and their local and international communities

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