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Keeping up with technology
January 29, 2010
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RBHS has been trying to keep up with technology to the best of its ability. The newest introduction is in the math classes. For about a year now, the math teachers have been experimenting with a new kind of board.
PowerPoint presentations are becoming a thing of the past. Some teachers are able to use these new boards to teach their class.
The teacher will write down the problem and it will project onto the screen as it is being written. The teacher can then help the students by going through each problem step by step. The teaching style has changed because it really speeds everything up. A teacher doesn’t waste time going back and erasing
When kids ask questions, the teacher no longer has to go through the hassle of lifting the screen up and down so they can write on the dry erase board. They can now just put everything together efficiently . This saves a lot of time in class because now there wont’ be a lot of pauses in between questions and learning the new material.
When asked about how the tablets compare to PowerPoint, Melissa Gordon (math teacher) says, “I can’t imagine going back to just using PowerPoint. I still use PowerPoint. Only now I can easily write on the slides and customize my teaching for each class. It also allows me to save all files as pdf files. This makes my presentations available to every student. Before when they were just power point presentations not all students could view my presentations on their home computers.”
Kids have agreed that the boards are better because when they are sick, they no longer have to scramble to try and learn the new lessons. These new math boards are able to save data. The teacher simply presses a button and the work they have done that day is saved. The teacher can then upload it to skyward. It helps everyone. Now kids wont’ be falling behind and teachers won’t be loosing class time to try and catch kids up.
It really has been a huge help in improving the learning process.
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