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21st Century Technology Skills for your Future

Business Applications Class

Mendocino High School

Business Applications is a multi-term course designed to enhance the students’ experience in traditional courses of instruction by providing opportunities for students to be engaged in a project-based approach to problem solving. Students work independently and in teams to solve “real world” problems and perform community service projects using state of the art technology. The application of basic skills in conjunction with the ability to learn new technology needed to be successful in today’s informational era society is stressed. Students are expected to learn how to construct their own learning using resources traditionally found in the business environment such as users guides to software applications, software support services, and peer-to-peer learning. A “work like” environment is created with high expectations in the classroom in order that students will gain a better understanding of what will be expected of them in the business world. Students will work in a variety of areas including Office Automation, Computer Aided Design, Graphics & 3-D Modeling, Engineering, and Architectural Design, GIS/GPS, and College and Career Exploration (to name a few).

Students in the class will:

· Engage in academic/vocational challenges

· Participate in student initiated and self-directed learning

· Demonstrate integrated learning

· Devise, plan and execute computer-based research and/or projects

· demonstrate what they know and can do

· be engaged in class work and accelerate their learning

· Develop new skills

Kathy Wylie, Instructor