Classroom technology is an increasing important tool to help teachers connect to students and students to other students, especially in the global world that American students encounter in overseas schools.
These US overseas schools were originally set up to provide an American style curriculum to the children of US ambassadors and dignitaries who live abroad with their families, but there is a distinct international "world is flat" feel in these schools.
In this spirit, and to support digital inquiry and real-world connectivity, many of these US schools abroad currently have or are exploring required laptop programs.
Take American School of Bombay as an example. Located in Mumbai, India, ASB hosts an extremely popular event on 1:1 computing. Schools come from all over the world to hear how ASB teachers and students use Tablet PCs in daily coursework, in study sessions, and in collaboration with students in other countries. Read more here about their 2010 event.
As it turns out, DyKnow software is an attractive option for these schools to bridge the gap between hardware and ideas. Customers throughout Asia-Pacific and Europe are using our software to make the collaborative classroom possible while still keeping students off of Facebook :) Many of these schools are large, making IT management a hot topic, so we address this with a central server and hooks to existing systems so that IT workload is minimal and classroom activities aren't affected.
I believe we'll see a lot of technology-related research and outcomes coming from this tight group of US schools abroad in the next couple years.
These US overseas schools were originally set up to provide an American style curriculum to the children of US ambassadors and dignitaries who live abroad with their families, but there is a distinct international "world is flat" feel in these schools.
In this spirit, and to support digital inquiry and real-world connectivity, many of these US schools abroad currently have or are exploring required laptop programs.
Take American School of Bombay as an example. Located in Mumbai, India, ASB hosts an extremely popular event on 1:1 computing. Schools come from all over the world to hear how ASB teachers and students use Tablet PCs in daily coursework, in study sessions, and in collaboration with students in other countries. Read more here about their 2010 event.
As it turns out, DyKnow software is an attractive option for these schools to bridge the gap between hardware and ideas. Customers throughout Asia-Pacific and Europe are using our software to make the collaborative classroom possible while still keeping students off of Facebook :) Many of these schools are large, making IT management a hot topic, so we address this with a central server and hooks to existing systems so that IT workload is minimal and classroom activities aren't affected.
I believe we'll see a lot of technology-related research and outcomes coming from this tight group of US schools abroad in the next couple years.
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