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| How Technology Impacts the Learning of All of Our Students  Fran Prather, a Teaching and Learning Coach, wanted to share two stories that were related to her during a recent All Day On-Site Support Days. These stories demonstrate how this new technology initiative impacts the learning of all of our students.
A fourth grade teacher from Navajo Elementary shared this with great enthusiasm:
“We were doing a math lesson on the SMART Board. Almost every hand in the room was up—everyone wanted a turn at the board. I realized that one of the hands was an autistic student who had never before raised his hand in class. In fact, he usually hides in the back of the room and has even cried because he thought other students were looking at him. I called on him and he came to the board. He worked out the math problem on the board, then turned and faced the rest of the class. He raised his hands in triumph like Rocky and the whole class clapped for him! It was one of the highlights of my teaching career! I can’t believe the level of student engagement with this!”
From a high school English teacher:
“Two days ago, I had the Senior English students write their research brainstorms in their Writer’s Notebooks. Students took a turn at the document camera and showed their work while other students gave feedback and suggestions. The students were far more engaged than when I show examples. The doc cam has made it so easy to pick up students work and show it immediately. I have a student who has 40 percent in Senior English. Forty percent! He does almost nothing and seems to have no motivation—not even to graduate. Well, this student did not write in his notebook and did not take a turn. However, the next day he came to class early and said “Mrs. __, I wrote in my Writer’s Notebook last night and I want to show it to the class.” We were supposed to go right to the computer lab, but I was not going to miss this opportunity, so I told the students to sit down. He put his work up under the document camera and everyone gave him feedback. It was really the first time he had participated in anything in class. The integration of the doc camera as a student learning and discussion tool — fantastic."
The Teaching & Learning coaches are receiving stories like this every time they go out to work with teachers. Mountainside Students Help Teachers Learn New Technologies
 Larry Bloom, a District Teaching & Learning coach, has an unique approach to help teachers at Mountainside Middle School learn how to use the new technologies that were recently installed in their classrooms. Bloom has taught 50 students how to use the interactive whiteboards, ceiling mounted projectors, wireless audio systems and document cameras. In turn, these students will help teachers in the classroom. “Students are sponges and learn quickly when it comes to new technologies. They are the perfect source to lend a hand with the new technologies in the classrooms,” said Bloom. Here's what Mountainside teachers had to say:
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