Encouraging Student Voice and Choice in the Classroom

Breakthroughs in technology, and falling prices, are expected to fuel a booming market for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality tools in K-12 districts over the next few years. But are education companies ready to respond? In this webinar, our guests will lay out the hard questions education companies need to consider—in product design, lesson-planning, implementation, pricing, and marketing— when they’re designing VR/AR/mixed reality tools for the burgeoning market, and trying to make them work in classrooms. What separates a smart, innovative investment from a project that drains time and money, without a payoff?

Early childhood educators are famous for creating full, vibrant, and colorful classrooms. Often, they spend both time and money in an attempt to ensure that children and families are greeted on Day 1 with a stunning display of classroom cheer. But which parts of all that work are most important to ensuring that your classroom environment welcomes learners and promotes learning? In this first of our four-part webinar series, we will talk about essential considerations for the wise use of space and resources. We will explore what’s absolutely necessary to include from the start, what’s important for the children to add themselves, and what’s best left out altogether.

The past 18 months have forced educators to navigate the tug-of-war between digital and physical learning solutions in the technological blink of an eye. Schools have since accelerated the adoption of cloud computing to deploy online learning tools affordably and sustainably, moving away from legacy and locally-hosted systems and services. Ambitions for ‘cloud eventually’ evolved almost overnight to ‘cloud now’. And just as the cloud empowers schools to expand beyond the classroom, the metaverse has emerged as a potential new space for making teaching and learning more engaging. So, does this herald the arrival of the ‘eduverse’? This panel of education thought leaders explores how education providers can leverage cloud-enabled solutions now and tomorrow, and what the growth of the metaverse might mean for the future of education.

Listen to this panel discussion on Digital Supplemental Tools for K-8 Student Success with Justin Burns, Principal at Leeds Elementary School, Shannon Ryan, Elementary Media Specialist at Richland School District Two and Renae Abboud M.Ed., Director of Education Solution Services.The discussion focuses on:The importance of supplemental tools in and outside of the classroom.