Presentation to the Board of Trustees of the Westerly School of Long Beach re: the need for technology in our school. Inspired by Karl Fisch's "Did You Know" video. Comments? e-mail WesterlyTrustees@yahoo.com
you don't need to waste millions on white board smartboards dumb boards just teach them to spell and punctuate and count in theeir head and they will be fine
The one other way that you could have presented the idea was under a 3 year lease program and then broke the cost down to a per day level. For example, a $900 tablet over a 2 year lease is $40 a month (at a high rate) or 480 a year. Simply calculate how many school days you have and divide $480 by the number of days a child attends school. For example, in SC, I found that children attend school for 180 days per session.
Imagine... a student could have a Tablet PC for only $2.67 per day.
Inspiring. I'm posting this on my site for UMPCs tomorrow. I will reference this video several times a week along with my associates. This is an initiative that MUST be understood by every administrator and parent.
Thank you! Three years ago I had a new principal visit my classroom. I use streaming video, interactive PowerPoint quizzes and presentations, and teach research skills and advanced searching techniques to second graders. Her comment, "Ms. M uses too much technology in her classroom."
The greatest obstacle to promoting technology use in education is the absolute ignorance or administrators responsible for funding that resource.
lucky... all we do is copy millions of notes untill the bell rings. Our school has 20 windows98 computers in the "computer lab" thats it.
chrisisAAAAAAAA 3 years ago
my school has nearly every class room with laptops and interactive boards, they do help
chrisphp 3 years ago
you don't need to waste millions on white board smartboards dumb boards just teach them to spell and punctuate and count in theeir head and they will be fine
scottishlowoflow 4 years ago
The one other way that you could have presented the idea was under a 3 year lease program and then broke the cost down to a per day level. For example, a $900 tablet over a 2 year lease is $40 a month (at a high rate) or 480 a year. Simply calculate how many school days you have and divide $480 by the number of days a child attends school. For example, in SC, I found that children attend school for 180 days per session.
Imagine... a student could have a Tablet PC for only $2.67 per day.
BuildYourUmpc 4 years ago
Inspiring. I'm posting this on my site for UMPCs tomorrow. I will reference this video several times a week along with my associates. This is an initiative that MUST be understood by every administrator and parent.
BuildYourUmpc 4 years ago
Thank you! Three years ago I had a new principal visit my classroom. I use streaming video, interactive PowerPoint quizzes and presentations, and teach research skills and advanced searching techniques to second graders. Her comment, "Ms. M uses too much technology in her classroom."
The greatest obstacle to promoting technology use in education is the absolute ignorance or administrators responsible for funding that resource.
lmyring 4 years ago
How totally cool. I was xomplettely won over and learned a good deal from this video.
Thanks,
John Stacy
stacyhm 4 years ago