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Welcome to the digital age!  We are pleased to offer a full service productivity lab, a unique Computer Art program, and an exciting Technology Education Special, where children engage in interactive learning each day.

Our labs feature IBM 8305 computers, black and white printers, color printers, LCD projectors, and scanners.  These tools facilitate the technology skills of our students and allow us to learn with technology as we meet the high academic standards of Grayson Elementary.  

The future of our technology program is exciting. A GES "retrofit" will begin in 2008, which will bring new laptop computers to all GES teachers, state-of-the-art classroom computers for students, a ceiling mounted projector to each classroom, new computers for our technology labs, and mobile laptop carts. Read more about Gwinnett County's SPLOST III Technology Plan.
 
Each Friday in 2007-08, a GES teacher who demonstrated outstanding effort promoting, supporting, using, and/or integrating technology for their students' benefit was named that week's Technology Trooper. The recipient was announced schoolwide and awarded a Technology Trooper Award certificate.
Excerpt from "Technology and Young Children -- Ages 3-8"

Technology plays a significant role in all aspects of American life today, and this role will only increase in the future. The potential benefits of technology for young children's learning and development are well documented. As technology becomes easier to use and early childhood software proliferates, young children's use of technology becomes more widespread. Therefore, early childhood educators have a responsibility to critically examine the impact of technology on children and be prepared to use technology to benefit children.

Source: National Association for the Education of Young Children