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11-04-2011, 01:46 AM
السلام عليكم
ياليت تترجمون لي هذا النص
قوقل ماعاد يصلح :[
Appropriatriatriatriate for all children, no mattmattmatter their ability or learning ststyle
“Everyone wants it, and wants to see what it can do.”
That’s what Kyle Berger, Executive Director of Technology Services for Alvarado Independent School District (ISD), in Texas, says about the SMART Table interactive learning center. Since Berger first discovered the SMART Table at a convention last year, and immediately bought 10 for classrooms in his district, he says they have “added new meaning to student-centered technology.”
“Instead of being just another center in the classroom, it really changes the dynamics of that center,” says Berger. “The kids get so excited to interact with the table, but they have to interact with each other, too. One child can’t just say, ‘I want to go.’ They all have to agree. The table takes the old elementary center model and brings it into the 21st century.”
Parents can rest assured that lessons learned at traditional classroom centers – everything from taking turns and cooperating, to adding objects and learning about cause and effect – are still very much at the center of learning with the SMART Table. But instead of being limited to the scope offered by a sand or water table, for example, the SMART Table can grow along with children as they rise to new challenges and become more sophisticated thinkers, all under the guise of play.
Children today learn to interact with technology in their early years, before they even enter the school system, and districts like Alvarado are ready to encourage them further. Alvarado ISD’s technology department serves the technological needs of approximately 3,400 students (many from economically disadvantaged homes) and staff, and is seen as a state leader in educational technology. The focus of the district’s technology department is to fully integrate technology into student instruction, and the SMART Table fits nicely into that mandate.
Berger and other educators realize that students today learn differently, and they are finding ways to bridge the gap between the way students learn and instructional methods that have not necessarily kept pace. Classrooms today are also filled with a diverse range of students with different learning styles. Some are primarily visual learners, some are auditory and some kinesthetic. Some speak English as a second language, while others may struggle with physical, mental, behavioral or emotional challenges. But children still need to learn fundamentals like mathematics, science and reading, and they are less likely to look to textbooks and teachers writing on a blackboard for that knowledge. Instead, technology is central to their learning experience.
In this context, the SMART Table puts technology at students’ fingertips. With multitouch functionality for up to eight children at one time and a design that supports universal design for learning principles, the SMART Table is appropriate for all children, no matter their ability or learning style. Counting becomes easy when each press of a child’s finger is added up on the table’s touch-sensitive screen. Children can also point at a picture (if not with their fingers, then with their elbows or another tool) and magically enlarge it so that it can be discussed with their table mates. Interaction and collaboration grow with each screen, as students answer questions, match pictures or words and categorize together.
“Learning opportunities which start to engage them in technology, especially in those primary years, will better prepare them for the future,” says Berger, “because when they complete their education, they may be working in an industry that doesn’t exist yet. The teaching methods have had to change, and we have had to develop programming around that as well,” adds Berger. “Technology integration in the classroom often rests in the hands of the teachers.”
While introducing some educational technology can mean steep learning curves for teachers, the SMART
Table makes integration easy from the moment it arrives in the classroom. Once it is plugged in, it is quite literally ready to go.
The SMART Table also provides optimum flexibility, both in terms of teaching style and content. Thanks to the SMART Table Toolkit, teachers can access ready-made activities, adapt existing activities to suit the particular needs of their classes or create entirely new activities. As students learn and grow, teachers can refine and redesign activities to keep the class challenged and engaged. Backed by a growing community of teachers sharing content online, the selection of resources and lesson activities for the SMART Table continues to grow as well.
“SMART has always been known to reach out and ask for input from its customers and invite them to share their ideas through their website,” says Berger. “There is a great amount of content already available… It’s so simple for teachers, in under five minutes, to create the lesson they need.”
Educators who are already fans of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard are happy to discover that the SMART Table complements it and other SMART products. Teachers can create interactive lessons that transition smoothly from the interactive whiteboard to the interactive learning center and back again. Janie Henderson, instructional technologist with Alvarado ISD, has been hearing nothing but praise from teachers in the district about the SMART Table interactive learning center.
“The teachers and kids are all very excited about it, especially all the different options for lesson plans they have to choose from,” she says. “The teachers really like that they can customize the software to individualize the lessons for their classroom. The software is very user friendly and very intuitive, and the computer skills required are very basic, so it isn’t something totally new that the teachers have to learn.”
She adds that teachers are also very happy that they don’t have to invest a great deal of time teaching children how to use the SMART Table.
Henderson says, “The best part is that the students are so engaged that they don’t even know they are learning, and that really shows the success of the product.”
مشكورين والله يجزاكم خير :]
ياليت تترجمون لي هذا النص
قوقل ماعاد يصلح :[
Appropriatriatriatriate for all children, no mattmattmatter their ability or learning ststyle
“Everyone wants it, and wants to see what it can do.”
That’s what Kyle Berger, Executive Director of Technology Services for Alvarado Independent School District (ISD), in Texas, says about the SMART Table interactive learning center. Since Berger first discovered the SMART Table at a convention last year, and immediately bought 10 for classrooms in his district, he says they have “added new meaning to student-centered technology.”
“Instead of being just another center in the classroom, it really changes the dynamics of that center,” says Berger. “The kids get so excited to interact with the table, but they have to interact with each other, too. One child can’t just say, ‘I want to go.’ They all have to agree. The table takes the old elementary center model and brings it into the 21st century.”
Parents can rest assured that lessons learned at traditional classroom centers – everything from taking turns and cooperating, to adding objects and learning about cause and effect – are still very much at the center of learning with the SMART Table. But instead of being limited to the scope offered by a sand or water table, for example, the SMART Table can grow along with children as they rise to new challenges and become more sophisticated thinkers, all under the guise of play.
Children today learn to interact with technology in their early years, before they even enter the school system, and districts like Alvarado are ready to encourage them further. Alvarado ISD’s technology department serves the technological needs of approximately 3,400 students (many from economically disadvantaged homes) and staff, and is seen as a state leader in educational technology. The focus of the district’s technology department is to fully integrate technology into student instruction, and the SMART Table fits nicely into that mandate.
Berger and other educators realize that students today learn differently, and they are finding ways to bridge the gap between the way students learn and instructional methods that have not necessarily kept pace. Classrooms today are also filled with a diverse range of students with different learning styles. Some are primarily visual learners, some are auditory and some kinesthetic. Some speak English as a second language, while others may struggle with physical, mental, behavioral or emotional challenges. But children still need to learn fundamentals like mathematics, science and reading, and they are less likely to look to textbooks and teachers writing on a blackboard for that knowledge. Instead, technology is central to their learning experience.
In this context, the SMART Table puts technology at students’ fingertips. With multitouch functionality for up to eight children at one time and a design that supports universal design for learning principles, the SMART Table is appropriate for all children, no matter their ability or learning style. Counting becomes easy when each press of a child’s finger is added up on the table’s touch-sensitive screen. Children can also point at a picture (if not with their fingers, then with their elbows or another tool) and magically enlarge it so that it can be discussed with their table mates. Interaction and collaboration grow with each screen, as students answer questions, match pictures or words and categorize together.
“Learning opportunities which start to engage them in technology, especially in those primary years, will better prepare them for the future,” says Berger, “because when they complete their education, they may be working in an industry that doesn’t exist yet. The teaching methods have had to change, and we have had to develop programming around that as well,” adds Berger. “Technology integration in the classroom often rests in the hands of the teachers.”
While introducing some educational technology can mean steep learning curves for teachers, the SMART
Table makes integration easy from the moment it arrives in the classroom. Once it is plugged in, it is quite literally ready to go.
The SMART Table also provides optimum flexibility, both in terms of teaching style and content. Thanks to the SMART Table Toolkit, teachers can access ready-made activities, adapt existing activities to suit the particular needs of their classes or create entirely new activities. As students learn and grow, teachers can refine and redesign activities to keep the class challenged and engaged. Backed by a growing community of teachers sharing content online, the selection of resources and lesson activities for the SMART Table continues to grow as well.
“SMART has always been known to reach out and ask for input from its customers and invite them to share their ideas through their website,” says Berger. “There is a great amount of content already available… It’s so simple for teachers, in under five minutes, to create the lesson they need.”
Educators who are already fans of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard are happy to discover that the SMART Table complements it and other SMART products. Teachers can create interactive lessons that transition smoothly from the interactive whiteboard to the interactive learning center and back again. Janie Henderson, instructional technologist with Alvarado ISD, has been hearing nothing but praise from teachers in the district about the SMART Table interactive learning center.
“The teachers and kids are all very excited about it, especially all the different options for lesson plans they have to choose from,” she says. “The teachers really like that they can customize the software to individualize the lessons for their classroom. The software is very user friendly and very intuitive, and the computer skills required are very basic, so it isn’t something totally new that the teachers have to learn.”
She adds that teachers are also very happy that they don’t have to invest a great deal of time teaching children how to use the SMART Table.
Henderson says, “The best part is that the students are so engaged that they don’t even know they are learning, and that really shows the success of the product.”
مشكورين والله يجزاكم خير :]