Rice Elementary students learn with new gadgets

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20110319/NEWS01/103190014/1001/news/Rice-Elementary-students-learn-new-gadgets

Sauk-Rapids Rice school district received a grant to get ActivBoards in their classroom. They can now say good bye to traditional chalkboards and whiteboards. These boards are interactive and act as a VCR, PC, and PowerPoint player. The teachers are saying that the students are more engaged in what they are learning. These boards are holding the students attention and they are actually excited to learn what is going on in the classroom. A special education teacher said that her students were challenged by traditional methods and are taking a liking to these new boards. All of this is really a great step for teaching. Getting your kids to stay involved and engaged is a tricky thing. And with this age being full of technology why not bring it into the classroom. It will help the students and teachers alike. I hope that in the future if these boards do show a improvement in learning that they will be available to all school districts nation wide. Lets just hope that these boards are helping those students who were struggling, maybe this is one piece of the puzzle, to helping them become even better students.