Technology

Since Drew’s new campus opened in 2001, technology has been a central concern in determining how to best educate our students—for today and for the upcoming decades. One hundred percent of Drew’s campus is covered by a wireless network, and 2006 also saw the beginning of a faculty laptop program, putting a laptop into the hands of 21 of our full-time teachers. The basement houses two digital recording spaces, both filled with cutting edge digital recording equipment and Apple computer-based software such as Final Cut Pro for film editing and ProTools for sound mixing. Laptop carts with 20 laptops each serve as mobile computer labs, while a dedicated computer lab adjacent to the library is the home of computer animation classes and also a place for students to work on assignments.

The Drew experience is about taking intellectual risks and making interesting connections; today’s technology wonderfully complements these objectives, and opens up new avenues for exploration along the way. A walk around Drew on any given school day finds group wiki projects taking place in English classes, interactive geography lessons, Math teachers digitally projecting and solving a “problem of the day,” movies and documentaries, science classes creating individual websites, and multimedia foreign language projects - all possible because of fast internet access, wireless and wired networks, digital projectors in the classroom, and laptops in the hands of teachers and students.