Corryann Thompson is a fifth-grade teacher at Highland Village Elementary School in Lewisville Independent School District in Flower Mound, Texas. I always thought technology integration would change ...
When parents think about their school years, they may remember walking up to the blackboard, picking up a piece of chalk and writing a sentence or completing a multiplication problem. Their children ...
BELLEVUE -- "Bryan," teacher Titou Yarlott said to a student in her class at Phantom Lake Elementary last week, "can you come up and circle the question mark?" The first-grader walked to the front of ...
Beth Holland has a love/hate relationship with interactive whiteboards (IWBs). "I feel that they tend to force teachers into a traditional model of standing up in front of the room as the focal point, ...
Students hop out of their seats during Lonnise Gilley’s lessons as they compete to solve a geometry problem or compare the sides of color-coded shapes on the board in front of the class. As Gilley ...
Sandra Simoneaux holds her right hand, with her thumb and ring finger together, up in the air as if she is about to lead an orchestra. She holds it there for a few moments until her class of 18 ...
I've had an eBeam Edge sitting in a box in my office for a while now, waiting for me to unpack it and give the interactive whiteboard tool a test drive. This past weekend, I finally broke it out and I ...
Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. When Fresno Unified School District ...