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Fantage recruits schools one by one for kids online virtual learning world
January 26, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
The company will roll out a new school each quarter. Two or three schools can compete with each other via the virtual classroom. The winning classroom gets a cash prize for the school. The goal is to enable schools to adopt the challenges by themselves, Hwang said. As word spreads among schools, they can organize their own challenges. Fantage has set up a challenge page for teachers.
“The pilot we ran showed children can get engaged because of the competition,” Hwang said. “We hope schools can use our site to do this indpendently.”
Fantage is also extending into separate sites for German and French speakers.
“We are very excited and have been preparing this for a few months,” Hwang said.
Fantage also plans to launch about one new app a month for mobile devices.
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POLL: What Are Your Thoughts on Virtual High School?
January 23, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Smart boards continue to replace what we knew as the blackboard and chalk. Now iPads are starting to enter the classrooms. In fact Hasbrouck Heights was recognized by Bloomberg.com just last week for their use of iPads in the Algebra classes.
The Internet now also provides some students with the opportunity to study a subject not offered in the classroom by way of a virtual classroom, something the school district is currently piloting with a handful of students
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PRS Students Plugged in to Learn Chinese
January 17, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Tones – Mandarin has four – distinguish the meaning of a word from other similar-sounding words. Recognizing those distinctions is crucial: It can make the difference between referring for instance, to your mother or to a horse. “This word is a great example of how important tone is in creating meaning,” Tsui said.
In response to the challenge, Tsui has turned her teacher website into the hub of the virtual classroom outside of the daily 45 minutes of in-class time. To help her students learn tone, she relies, among other things, upon Vocaroo, an online program that allows users to make and send voice recordings, much like an audio e-mail.
As students move on to PHS, teacher Shwu-Fen Lin is ready with an array of tools to enhance instruction. Included in her repertoire are 30 iPods, which she uses as part of her assessment process.
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