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 [...]

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 [...]

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 David Nagel 3/26/2010 Ed tech developer Qwizdom will launch a new wireless student response system next month, one that offers a 2.3-inch (diagonal) LCD screen and cell phone-style keypad for student interaction and formative testing on the fly. The system, the Q6, is the latest in Qwizdom’s line of student response technologies, which also [...]