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Fifth grade students spent their spring break trip on a trip to New York City. Read about it and see them in the Big Apple.
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On Friday, November 16, Dell provided notebook computers to the student body at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, to enhance their educational experience in the classroom. Excited students were chanting as Ron Clark, co-founder of RCA, and other teachers appeared with 60 Dell notebooks. When each student was formally presented with his or her computer, there were smiles all around the room with some students so overwhelmed they could hardly speak.
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Ron Clark Academy
The Ron Clark Academy, a premier educational facility for inner-city fifth- through eighth-grade students in Atlanta, opened this fall using Dell technology to create an interactive classroom learning environment. Dell and Intel have combined forces to ensure students at the academy have the latest educational technology, helping them develop the 21st century skills they need to succeed in the workplace.Ron Clark talks about using technology in the Intelligent Classroom
Curriculum
The curriculum at the Ron Clark Academy covers the basic requirements according to Georgia’s standard course of study. In addition, students are exposed to classes and programs where they will learn and be involved with photography, dancing, music production, the art of design, dramatic performance, and business leadership.
What is a Model Intelligent Classroom?
Students today have embraced technology in their personal lives and they crave that interaction with technology when they enter the classroom. A Model Intelligent Classroom is a combination of computers and related technologies such as projectors and cameras that together transform classrooms into high-tech, interactive learning centers in which students acquire the 21st Century skills they’ll need to compete in the digital economy.
Intelligent Classroom Locator
Schools across the nation are adopting the principles of the Intelligent Classroom. Find the Intelligent Classroom near you and find out what’s happening behind the scenes.
Locate a Model Intelligent Classroom™
Find out more about the Dell tools and technologies for a Model Intelligent Classroom.
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Project Based Learning
The article Tools for Facilitating PBL discusses effective (and cost-effective) tools for helping teachers facilitate project-based learning. The author notes that “the formidable task of structuring, monitoring, managing and evaluating student work” is a major barrier to greater use of PBL. What, if anything, keeps you from using project-based learning?
