When talking with schools, I sometimes like to share the story of how our education software came to be. Often referred to as the "fire story," our software originated in the college classroom based on an experience by Dr. Dave Berque.
The story is written in the History section of the DyKnow website. You can even hear Dr. Berque explain the story himself by clicking on the video link. As the story goes, it seemed to Berque (after the fire) that technology could play a role. There should be some way to incorporate classroom technology so that both student and teacher would be able to concentrate on what was being taught and not just writing it all down.
Today we're known as DyKnow, but originally the software was referred to as DEBBIE. There are some similarities between DEBBIE and DyKnow -- check it out for yourself.
A webpage about Dr. Berque on DePauw University's website reminded me of this story (it's also where the picture of Dave Berque resides) and the importance it plays in our ongoing goal to enrich technology enhanced classrooms. See, we focused on the learning aspect of the classroom first. The classroom monitoring software came later.
The story is written in the History section of the DyKnow website. You can even hear Dr. Berque explain the story himself by clicking on the video link. As the story goes, it seemed to Berque (after the fire) that technology could play a role. There should be some way to incorporate classroom technology so that both student and teacher would be able to concentrate on what was being taught and not just writing it all down. Today we're known as DyKnow, but originally the software was referred to as DEBBIE. There are some similarities between DEBBIE and DyKnow -- check it out for yourself.
A webpage about Dr. Berque on DePauw University's website reminded me of this story (it's also where the picture of Dave Berque resides) and the importance it plays in our ongoing goal to enrich technology enhanced classrooms. See, we focused on the learning aspect of the classroom first. The classroom monitoring software came later.
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