Prometheans help Ephrata teachers reach students
Grant Elementary teacher Laura Collins demonstrates various features on the Promethean board in her classroom. The digital whiteboards are Android devices that include pinch-to-zoom options like many smartphones, allow students to share work with one another via digital connections and have a variety of video tools that bring features from overhead projectors, whiteboards, handouts and televisions into one consolidated device.
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Vibrant colors help to engage students in learning, especially for today’s digital natives who are visual learners. Showing concepts in multiple visual terms – three-tenths, a visual representation of 30% or 0.3 in this case – helps students grasp concepts in the way that works best for them, improving their learning experience.
EPHRATA — Last year, the Ephrata School District received a grant of about $110,000 to ensure all of their classrooms were equipped with Promethean digital boards — the digital descendent of a chalkboard — and the training for staff to utilize them in the classroom.
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