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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]