The difference was immediate. After rolling out Promethean ActivPanel interactive whiteboards and document cameras in 600 of the classrooms at Albemarle County Public Schools, teachers reported an increased excitement for learning.
This is exactly why the district’s implementation team brought these new technologies to the Virginia district of 14,000 students and 25 schools.
“We see students and teachers working together with the boards to learn things that they say they couldn’t have understood as well without them,” says Gene Osborn, assistant director for technology integration.
He remembers watching a third grade class in which teams of three students took turns at an interactive whiteboard that was operating in split-screen mode, with one child doing research on a geographic formation while the other two took notes. The note takers then annotated the research, and the team was able to save the work to present or continue working on later.
ACPS was intentional about choosing these tools. “We want to make sure that individual student needs, not the technology, are driving the teaching,” Osborn says.
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The pandemic added new urgency to educators’ efforts to more effectively engage with their students. Eighty-five percent of writing teachers say that student engagement has fallen during COVID-19, and 76 percent of math teachers report a decline, according to a national survey by educational technology company Texthelp.
Some school districts, like ACPS, have already seen how these modern audiovisual technologies can increase student engagement. A study by Forrester Research for Promethean reveals that 70 percent of districts purchased interactive whiteboards primarily to boost students’ interest in lessons being discussed.
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