When the lights go down, the learning cranks up at vans elementary in Tinley Park. Partner’s going to come around, and same thing, drag two off. These second graders are getting their lesson with the help of interactive technology. They don’t sit and try to absorb what’s being taught. They get out of their seats [...]
All Viewers Please Note: After 4.5 years acting as the agency of record for Promethean in North America, Sensible City withdrew its services as of September, 2009. Today we have signed on with PolyVision, makers of the eno interactive whiteboard. eno offers a lifetime guarantee and dozens of classroom specific features that you can get with no other provider. But [...]
Edu 2.0 Walt Gardner / Monday, November 17, 2008 With education expected eventually to become a front-burner issue in the Obama administration, it’s important to bear in mind in our zeal to reform schools to meet the demands of the new global economy that no nation in history has been able to create good public [...]
COCOA — Call it the little school that could — shop, that is. St. Mark’s Episcopal Academy, a private school in Cocoa Village with fewer than 100 students, recently won the $5,000 grand prize in Merritt Square Mall’s annual “Earning for Learning” contest. Twenty-five Brevard County schools participated in the monthlong contest that ended Sept. [...]
Superintendent Paul Vallas, a well-known reformer, has made technology pivotal in his recovery plans for New Orleans schools New Orleans schools chief Paul Vallas recently passed his first major test when fourth and eighth graders in the city’s public schools posted significantly higher scores on the state exam–and his plans for using technology to help [...]
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