4. Edutopia

Harrison Central High School: This was really cool! I hope I can teach at a classroom like this someday. With all the technology they have available it would be hard to be uninterested during class.

Mary Scroggs Elementary School: The news cast was really neat. I would love to be able to do this with my students. The tech at home program was VERY COOL. This way, each child can have a computer at home and we are closer to bringing all students to the same level.

A Product of Learning: First of all, 28 different languages spoken in one school – how do they keep up? They said this school went from the bottom 1/3 to the top 1/3 which just proves how much technology can improve learning.

Leading With Laptops: This is so cool! I know that if we each had laptops when I was in school, we definitely would have liked school a lot better. The Student’s Portal is also a really cool way to give the students meaning for what they are doing. Rather than performing an experiment, writing the results on a worksheet, and throwing it away after it is graded, these kids put their work out there for the world to see.

Pursuing passions after school: After School Matters was a cool program. This is a good way for students who may have trouble in school to feel successful and feel like there is something they are good at.

Around the clock learning: I think the internship for highschoolers was neat, but I don’t know if I would want my child going to school from 11 until 7. I did like the claymation movies idea. This would be a cool thing to do with an art class to integrate technology.

A night in the Global Village: This was a really cool activity. Students hear about world hunger and other problems that underprivileged countries go through, but with this program, they can actually live it and hopefully not forget it.