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The Telegraph: New learning tool brings video gaming to Gray Elementary classrooms

Apr 14th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

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 [...]



NBC Texoma: Primary School Goes Hi-Tech With Qwizdom Program

Apr 13th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

ARDMORE, OK– The Plainview School District is taking your child’s education high tech using interactive technology that allows students to be more involved. Meredith Saldana takes a look at this unique system. Remember the days of blackboards and projectors? Well, at Plainview Primary School they’re taking kids out of the old days and firmly in [...]



Scholastic: Qwizdom Answers with Qs: Teacher Carlos Fernandez

Apr 13th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

Reviewer: Carlos Fernandez Position: 8th Grade American History Teacher School: Raa Middle School Location: Tallahassee, FL Number of Students in School: 900+ Products: Qwizdom Q2 & Q7s Goals: The Q2s and Q7s allowed me to bring a higher level of technology usage into the classroom. My goals in the beginning of the year consisted of [...]



Newbury Today: Encouraging healthy choices in schools

Apr 11th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage, News Tips

New interactive technology funded by Newbury Rotary Club will help encourage healthy lifestyle choices among pupils Primary school children will be encouraged to make healthy lifestyle choices by new interactive technology funded by Newbury Rotary Club. The new technology called Qwizdom will be taken to schools across West Berkshire by the Life Education Centres Thames [...]



eSchool News: Qwizdom launches game-based platform for learning and practicing K-8 skills

Mar 23rd, 2011 | By admin | Category: News Coverage

Qwizdom has developed a free online learning platform for students in grades K-8, called Qtopia, with thousands of ready‐to‐use practice materials—including educational activities, games, and homework—that are accessible from any internet-connected computer. “What we have created is an online community for students and teachers that makes learning successful, measurable, and fun,” said Darin Beamish, CEO of [...]



Scholastic: Learning by Clicker

Mar 22nd, 2011 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

Forget attendance and simple answers—today’s schools are using personal response devices to disrupt the traditional ways students are taught. By Pamela H. Derringer As more schools introduce clickers, or personal response devices, into every classroom, the way these small devices are being used is becoming more sophisticated, more intrusive, and more vital to teaching and [...]



Tallahassee Democrat: Raa Middle students use new technology to learn

Mar 18th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

By Ashley Ames• Democrat Staff Writer • Published: March 09, 2011 In Carlos Fernandez’s eighth grade American History class at Raa Middle School, the students don’t raise their hands. They simply press a button, and Fernandez knows exactly who has answered, what they answered and if it was correct. It’s all part of Raa Middle School [...]



Qtopia Included in Scholastic’s FETC Picks

Mar 17th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News Coverage

Scholastic stopped by Qwizdom’s boot at FETC and included in their round up of the latest and greatest tech for schools. Heres what they had to say: “Qwizdom’s Qtopia offers thousands of interactive activities, games, and challenges. It’s all standards based, and students can move through the material at their own pace. Free.”   To [...]



Temecula Patch: Federal Grants Bring High Tech to Local Schools

Mar 16th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

A 2-year grant brings new technology to schools. By Stephanie D. Schulte – March 12, 2011 Last Friday, the conference room at the Temecula Unified School District office was filled with local teachers learning how to use new classroom technology thanks to a generous 2 year federal grant, known as an EETT or Enhancing Education Through Technology grant. [...]



Cape Coral Daily Breeze: ‘Qwizdom’ helps Gulf students gear up for FCAT

Mar 14th, 2011 | By admin | Category: News Coverage, News Tips

By MEGHAN McCOY mmccoy@breezenewspapers.com A student response system that engages an entire class during a lesson was implemented five years ago at Gulf Elementary School to increase interaction for every student. Principal Donnie Hopper said the student response system, Qwizdom, is all about engaging students, so everyone can participate. Wednesday morning a Gulf Elementary fifth [...]