| Eastern Townships School Board Announces Exciting Positive Results From Laptop Initiative (PDF) |  |
| Press release from Canadian School Board showing positive results in its third year of laptop program |  |
| Elementary School: Part Five (PDF) | |
| Teacher collaboration is a significant contributor to successful technology integration. Through collaboration, teachers support one another as they learn how the software works. But what is perhaps more important, working together provides opportunities to discuss how technology can be applied to the curriculum and how the material should be taught. By working together, teachers strengthen each other and provide more consistent experiences for students. | |
| Elementary School: Part Four (PDF) | |
| Advances in technology have dramatically changed how and where students access information. Technology has also transformed how they participate in the learning process. Mobile technologies enable students to access the Internet and other online resources from home, school, or in the community. They can also contribute to online information sources from those places. In addition, online simulations enable students to experience and experiment in ways never before possible. | |
| Elementary School: Part One (PDF) | |
| Mobile technologies are becoming ever more sophisticated, with expanded computing power and connectivity with external devices, which increases their usefulness in schools. These technologies can help make learning science more meaningful, authentic, productive, and motivating for students and teachers. Strategic integration of mobile and classroom technologies can enhance learning across the curriculum. | |
| Elementary School: Part Three (PDF) | |
| Technology can personalize learning opportunities even in group settings. Providing each child access to a computing device linked wirelessly to a projector can help make students' thinking visible, enable teachers to assess student progress in real time, and foster collaboration. | |
| Elementary School: Part Two (PDF) | |
| Using images, simulations, and video, teachers can explain complex concepts that are otherwise difficult to convey. Images, applets, and movies can be displayed on a variety of devices, including desktops, laptops, and handhelds. On-demand access to technology can foster student creativity and create learning situations almost anywhere. This ability to share and connect creates teachable moments and enables students to be teachers as well. | |
| High Expectations: Students Learn To Rise To The Occasion | |
| The teachers at Faubion Elementary School are the ones responsible for the high performance exhibited by their students. Three quarters of the student population at Faubion qualify for free or reduced price lunch, however 97% of fifth grade students meet or exceed state expectations in reading and math. Teachers cite the fact that they set high expectations for all students, they engage parents as partners and visit students at home before the school year starts, the teachers work in grade level teams to plan lessons together or even teach together, they incorporate a social emotional learning curriculum called Life Skills into every grade in order to teach students how to be good citizens, and they enhance their lessons through technology use. | |
| Hula To High Tech | |
| Nuuanu Elementary School in HI integrates technology and hands-on learning into lessons at every grade-level. From producing a newscast to following sea turtles to studying streams, every student is exposed to technology at an early age to become comfortable with the tools, and to connect them to the world. The community is involved with the school, and they can view the many videos that students post on their website. | |
| Las Vegas: Environments | |
| In Clark County, NV, two schools have built unique learning labs with help from community members. One school built a 1 million dollar rainforest biosphere and a second built a replica of a silver mine. Students learn about concepts in history, earth science, geology, etc - all while having a fun, hands-on learning experience. Community members funded and built both labs, and they often volunteer as guides in the labs. | |
| Success Spoken Here | |
| The John Stanford International School fosters an appreciation of diversity among its students. The school provides a multicultural perspective to children, technology is integrated into art and music, and there is a great deal of parental and community involvement. The most important feature of the school is its language immesion program though; students learn math and science in either Spanish or Japanese. | |