Adventures to Australia, Guatemala, and Sarasota, Fla., are just a few places that students, staff, parents and guests at Fayette County High visited during the Adventure ConnectED Showcase held at the school.
The four walls of the traditional classroom no longer exist. Technology has broken the barriers, giving students and their teachers a connection to the world, allowing them to visit places and talk to national and world leaders that for many are once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Fayette County High was the host of the school system’s first Adventure ConnectED Showcase Oct. 27 where students, teachers, business leaders, parents, and community members spent the morning learning about how High Definition (HD) videoconferencing is being used to enhance curriculum across all subject areas. This fully interactive technology means that students are not only watching and listening, but also have the ability to talk back and forth with the instructor or guide on the other end.
Adventures for the morning included a trip to a museum in Australia for some interesting bat facts, and the Marine Mole Laboratory in Sarasota, to learn about sharks. Fifth-grade students from Fayetteville Elementary, located just behind Fayette County High, came over to participate in these trips that were geared toward fifth-grade science.
The high school’s human anatomy and physiology students traveled to an orphanage in Guatemala to see how telemedicine is being used to help bring healthcare to people in rural and remote areas. American literature students interacted with the author of “Tech Titans” in a program called “Computer Geeks Who Changed the World,” learning interesting facts about the backgrounds and careers of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg. Economic students went to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, to learn about the “Business of Baseball,” discovering how it became a business, and analyzing baseball’s growth into a multibillion-dollar industry.
Visitors of the Adventure ConnectED showcase at Fayette County High were treated to breakfast throughout the morning, and given a gift bag with items donated through the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce by the following business members: Central Michigan University, Bunn Pest Control, The Children’s Village at Christian City, Piedmont Fayette Hospital, Wayfield Foods, Progressive Heating & Air, Bank of North Georgia, BB&T, UGA Griffin Campus, Minuteman Press of Peachtree City, and Shane’s Rib Shack of Peachtree City.
Students on the Fayette County High School Student Advisory Council served as guides, taking guests to classrooms for the various adventures.
The school system is planning future Adventure ConnectED showcases at schools around the county to demonstrate how technology is being used in the classroom, and how technological advances are preparing students to become successful and productive global citizens.
