| The Laptops in the American History Classroom
project addresses the technology professional development needs of
high school American history teachers in Everett, Malden, and Medford, as
demonstrated on the state's Technology Self-Assessment Test (TSAT). These teachers are presently involved in a three-year federal grant, Voices Rising; Assimilation and the American Experience, the sole purpose of which is to provide intensive professional development in American history content and skills only. As a result of participating in the Voices Rising project, teachers created American history project-based units that the districts’ curriculum/technology integration experts transformed into web-based units. The high school American history teachers in these three districts, however, need training in the implementation of these units in a one-to-one WiFi student laptop environment in order to maximize demonstrated student learning on the soon-to-be-required U.S. History MCAS test. Everett High School, the high-need district and fiscal agent for this grant, opened a new high school in September with 390 laptops available for student classroom use. The Laptops in the American History Classroom project provides a perfect opportunity for technology (laptops) to support the enhancement of content (American history) by providing in-depth technology-related workshops to teachers and administrators charged with effectively implementing technology into the classroom to increase student achievement, and maintaining and supporting classroom technology use, respectively. |
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