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Interactive Classroom Technology in Classrooms
San Mateo Foster City School District install classroom technology for teacher use. Every classroom in the district (K-8) has eBeam and all teachers received training. -
Smarter Balances Practice Tests
Students in our district (3-8) will pilot the new Smarter Balanced online exam. I am excited about the new adaptive learning feature that is built-in the test. -
Adaptive Learning
Seeing how powerful the adaptive testing feature is within Smarter Balanced, I would love to see how we can incorporate that into the classrooms. With more technology readily available to students, this would be incdredibly useful to differenciate lessons amongst individual students based on their specific needs. -
Gamification
Teaching the classroom curriculum in gaming form would be an incredible shift from the way we are teaching now. Meeting students needs in a way that is fun and interactive would motivate those students are have a hard time accessing information in a static way. -
Flipped Classroom
The flipped classroom concept could reach the elementary schools if parents and students have a strong communication bridge. Families would be more involved in the child's education and would elicit the teacher help after learning and researching a topic. -
Digital Textbooks
All textbooks become digitzed and are only accessible via a tablet, smartphone or computer. No more lugging heavy textbooks that become outdated in a month. Current events are added to the digital versions and students have access to opposing views on the same topic.