Digital Literacy
How do schools best use technology to enhance learning? How can parents balance media in ways that support a child’s development? Increasingly, people look to Waldorf education for answers. We offer a highly considered approach that incorporates the right technology at the right time. Here learning is based on human interaction rather than the latest devices in the marketplace. Most importantly, we work in partnership with parents, many from the tech industry, to help children develop creative intelligence and flexibility in thinking for life.
Early Childhood
K-5
Middle School
High School
Young children learn through imitation, imagination, movement, play. Teachers tell beautiful stories with complex vocabulary and sentence structure. Children are unencumbered by the passive consumption of fixed media images, which scientific research confirms are difficult to process and can hinder learning.
Media-free classrooms are places of human connection and experiential, creative lessons. An environment free of screens promotes concentration and deeper study while allowing an embodied approach to learning. This attention given to one another and to the task at hand builds the practice of presence and nurtures life-long relationships.
Middle schoolers are introduced to digital literacy, exploring questions of online behavior, information resources, and social citizenship. Families discuss class community guidelines for the introduction of technology.
Students use tech tools for learning and creation, and teachers cultivate critical thinking through discussion-based seminars and inquiry-based exploration. There is a media center, laptop carts, and cloud-based resources. Phones are checked in upon arrival to campus to create space for learning and social connection.
Do you wonder if this puts our students at a disadvantage? Research has found that Waldorf alumni feel prepared to be creative innovators and adaptable thinkers. Research also shows that Waldorf graduates pursue careers in science and technology 30% more than their peers from other independent schools. Read more about our college-bound students from the high school, and explore some of our Alumni Profiles in our Community News. Our graduates have shown to successfully and fully transition into using technology as a helpful tool at other educational institutions. Our Waldorf curriculum builds the flexibility in thinking and creative problem solving necessary for a rapidly-changing world of technological advances that will require new solutions and innovative leaders.