by PHILIP PETRUNAK, Daily American Staff Writer
Conversations about how to better integrate emerging technologies into the classroom are taking place in school board meetings across Somerset County. Whether to utilize mobile devices alongside textbooks, for example, is becoming a normal topic of discussion. Administrators in the Windber Area School District are looking to stay ahead of the curve. The school district plans to break ground in the fall on a course that not only uses mobile devices, but exists solely because of the technology. Windber is scheduled to pilot a nine-week elective course that introduces students to the engineering of mobile applications. If “Introduction to App Engineering” goes well, the school district plans to create a series of course levels aimed at teaching students how to build functioning mobile apps from start to finish.
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