Thursday, September 15, 2011
Printed textbooks, paper handouts and assignments and more are becoming things of the past in Tosa schools.
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- Jim Price
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
When school came back into session, it didn't take long for some Wauwatosa students to see that they were learning in a different landscape than the one they had left last spring. It was now, in large part, a digital landscape. From Day 1 in Juliebeth Farvour's advanced placement calculus class at East High School, the topic was new technology and how it would be used. Students in Farvour's class had been selected to receive a consignment of iPads purchased by the Wauwatosa School District as part of a pilot program to push ahead with online learning. "Their only homework for the first weekend was learning to use the iPads," Farvour said. Related story: What technology is hot this year As for how the students are using the devices, there …
Pads and tablets that are customizable, do-all storage and browsing devices well-suited to classroom use are already on their minds.
These days, a high school graduate would hardly think of going off to college without a laptop, notebook or tablet computer for use in and out of class. If the day is coming when middle school and high school students, like most college students already, are allowed to use their own digital devices for classroom lesson sharing, you can bet they will be well prepared. They already are getting hold of the technology best suited to hybrid classroom use. Related story: Technology turns teaching around. Move over, smart phone. Tablets were the rage for back-to-school shoppers this summer as students and parents searched for the thinnest, most flexible devices, according to technology experts in Wauwatosa. "Tablets are the latest and greatest, …
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Young 'digital natives' called upon to help older dinosaurs learn 21st Century skills.
As the Wauwatosa School District moved ahead rapidly to upgrade to the latest digital technology and information systems – open mail and document sharing, iPads with open applications, e-readers and more – it found it had a problem. Easy as they seemed to be to use, these technologies were largely unfamiliar to a large number of teachers and staff, who were expected not only to use the devices and software themselves but were also supposed to teach students to use them and to work them into the learning curriculum. So Jamie Price, the district's technology coordinator, had to turn to the experts for help. The kids. "There's been a significant increase in teacher interest" in the new technologies, Price said, enough so that planned teacher-…
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