Educational Technology

January 23, 2012

School Notebook: Technology helps kids study novel together

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:31 am

by Star-Ledger Staff

Thanks to the technology of the computer age and a little planning by teachers, eighth-grade students at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield studied John Steinbeck’s novel, “Of Mice and Men,” with eighth-grade students five miles away at Cedarbrook K-8 Center in Plainfield. The eighth-graders from both schools and their teachers began by meeting at Roosevelt for a pre-reading activity. The groups kept in touch via Skype, jointly answering study questions and debating points in the novel, and finished their study of the novel last Monday when the Roosevelt eighth-graders went to Cedarbrook for a final discussion on the book and to watch the film together.

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2012/01/school_notebook_technology_hel.html

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