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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tech purchase allows students to see, not just hear, when they learn - SUE TER MAAT, Chi*Town Daily News
Just try teaching kids in science class about plate tectonics like teacher Judy Jones does at St. Francis de Sales in Chicago. Say the words lithosphere or continental drift and watch 30 pairs of eyes glaze over, she says. But use a video projector with images off the Internet showing the actually plates slide underneath one another and suddenly you hear students say, “Whoa,” accompanied with a lot of jaws dropping, she says. “When kids pay attention, they learn more,” says Jones, who’s a biology and earth science teacher at the school. “Some of these concepts are hard to explain, but when you show them, that’s when you get that light bulb moment from students and you can see them, thinking, ‘Now I get it. I understand.’”
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