This link has been bookmarked by 20 people . It was first bookmarked on 17 Sep 2008, by Tara McGowan.
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Abby PurdyAn article about the lengths some teachers will go to to get the technology they need in the classroom.
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29 Sep 08
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Jeff JohnsonTeachers are conditioned to tolerate a lot of abuse—it's a professional hazard—but what faculty members at Sir G. E. Cartier Elementary School in London, Ontario, went through last spring seems beyond the call of duty: a few of them agreed to be duct-taped to a gym wall while students hit them in the face with pies. Why on earth would they do that? To raise $3,000—enough cash for an interactive whiteboard, the most coveted piece of educational technology on the market right now.
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21 Sep 08
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Jamie SonnevilleThe percentage of smartboards in US classrooms is 16% versus the UK with 70%
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17 Sep 08
Tom HarrisonInteresting article considering our math scores and math teachers all have SmartBoards now...except for one.
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Tara McGowanNewsweek article on whiteboards in classrooms
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t faculty members at Sir G. E. Cartier Elementary School in London, Ontario, went through last spring seems beyond the call of duty: a few of them agreed to be duct-taped to a gym wall while students hit them in the face with pies. Why on earth would they do that? To raise $3,000—enough cash for an interactive whiteboard, the most coveted piece of educational technology on the market right now
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In the U.K.—where 70 percent of all primary and secondary classrooms have interactive whiteboards, compared with just 16 percent in the United States—students in those classrooms made the equivalent of five months' additional progress in math.
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studies suggest that the devices boost attendance rates and classroom participation.
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Many older educators are "petrified" of the boards, says Peter Kornicker, a media specialist at P.S. 161 in Harlem, where despite a student poverty rate of 98 percent, all 35 classrooms are equipped with touchscreens
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16 Sep 08
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