In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, Qtopia is giving away a one year subscription to Qtopia Plus to 5 educators – one each day beginning Monday May 2, through Friday May 6. Qtopia Plus for educators provides access to additional reporting features, state-aligned curriculum, unique avatars for student and teacher use, and other enhancements to [...]
If you walk by a classroom at Brownstown Elementary School and hear the sound of race cars, it doesn’t mean that students in the class are watching a NASCAR race. It’s all of the students finding out how they completed a class exercise. That’s one of the fun ways that students at the school are [...]
Calexico High School is expanding its use of technology in the classrooms this year through a federal grant and is the only school in the district using digital learning at its level, schoolofficials said.
There’s no homework to turn in at the beginning of Don Eggart’s math class at Cheney Middle School. Instead, Eggart’s 23 students are at work within a minute after the bell rings, solving “warm up” problems and entering their answers on a remote control. A lot has changed in the classroom from Eggart’s middle school [...]
Fourth-graders at Gray Elementary School are participating in innovative computer programs that allow students to learn while having fun. Teacher Marty Harrington said she actually found the Qwizdom software in a closet at the school where it had set for several years and quickly found out that it was a good teaching resource. Qwizdom is [...]
“Over the past six to eight weeks, the improvement in the overall view of everything they are doing has just been tremendous. It only makes them better.” says Marty Harrington of Gray Elementary School. Teachers using Qtopia at Gray are hoping that this improvement in understanding math skills will carry over to CRCT test scores.
Barry Cleveland Carmi, Ill. As difficult as it may be to imagine, the day may come-and soon-when textbooks are obsolete and no longer extensively used in the Carmi-White County school system. Members of the Unit Five school board, administrators, other staff members and local media got a look at a new, state-of-the-art learning environment Monday [...]
Qtopia &1:1: Bob Richardson Instructional Tech Coordinator Reviewer: Bob Richardson Position: Instructional Technology Coordinator & Teacher District/School: Orange County Public Schools, Central Florida Leadership Academy Products: Qtopia, Qwizdom (Q4s & Q7s) Goals: The ultimate goal is to move to a 1:1 computing platform. We tested, and then added netbooks to the classrooms. Every class has a [...]
Local elementary school students are learning in a brand new way. Teachers now have instant access to student comprehension data, before moving on to the next lesson. Students are able to put video gaming and text messaging to use, while grasping a new concept.
By CARYN GRANT – cgrant@macon.com GRAY — Peek into Marty Harrington’s Gray Elementary School classroom and you’ll see some kids playing video games on their computers while others are busy figuring out math problems on their screens. Those gamers aren’t troublemakers goofing off in class. Quite the contrary. They are the students who have completed [...]