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The Griffin Technology Advantage
Twenty-first century students live in a world of technology and
collaboration where learning happens 24 hours a day and is supported
by professors, friends, professional experts and fellow learners in the
classroom, on the web and around the world.
The Griffin Technology Advantage, Seton Hill's commitment to provide
students with the best in technology and collaborative learning tools,
ensures that Seton Hill students will be uniquely suited to whatever
careers they choose - even those that have not yet been created.
Technology Provided to Every Student
Beginning in the fall of 2010, all first year undergraduate students at
Seton Hill will receive a 13" MacBook Pro laptop and an iPad. Students will have complete access
to these mobile technologies for classes as well as at all times for
personal use. After two years, Seton Hill will replace the laptop with
a new one - one that students can take with them when they graduate! With
this technology at their fingertips, students can create a just-in-time learning
environment, stay in touch with professors, advisors and classmates,
research any topic at any time, engage in hybrid and fully online
courses, and access a whole host of Seton Hill technology services. In
doing so, students will be learning the technological skills they'll need in the
twenty-first century workforce.
Faculty Committed to Highly Engaged Learning
Seton Hill's faculty understand that each student has a unique learning
style. Some students learn best by attending lectures and writing papers;
others excel when given the opportunity to research a topic and create
a video or an audio podcast. To this end, Seton Hill is committed to
moving past the teaching of traditional research skills to what we like to call
"creative literacy" - teaching students not just how to find the information
they need, but how to process it in a way that allows them to make
sense of the information, apply it to actual situations and use it to
solve problems.
Fostering Creative Literacy by:
- Connecting students and teachers to versatile, dynamic communities of learners.
- Providing linkages and connections throughout our academic and co-curricular environments.
- Allowing any classroom to become a virtual computer lab.
- Providing access to both Mac and PC-based software applications from a single hardware device.
- Increasing more interactive and in-depth teaching and learning experiences.
- Supporting our vibrant campus environment by increasing student learning and entertainment opportunities.
Seton Hill faculty members (who will be equipped with the same mobile technologies as the students) have been trained to use the best of modern technology to expand learning opportunities.
In this way, Seton Hill is training students of all learning styles and abilities to be better researchers, better at compiling and organizing data, and better at publishing and presenting
information - better, in fact, at becoming lifelong learners who can easily adapt to new situations and new technologies in their lives and careers.
Seton Hill's Steinway concert grand piano is signed by renowned pianist Lang Lang. See Lang Lang playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" on an iPad here.
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