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Informative Essay On Technology In Schools

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Hayleigh Holmgren
Mr. Chappell
Tech period 5
November 9, 2015 Technology in Schools// final

The country I chose was Iceland. Iceland's schooling is divided into three sections. For kids up to six years of age, go to preschool. Children from ages six to sixteen go to compulsory school. Young adults from ages sixteen to twenty go to upper secondary school. Iceland doesn't have much technology to learn with so it is much different than the United States. One day, students from Chicago, Illinois reached out to Arskóli in Saudarkrokur, Iceland.
Both classes were given iPads so they could reach out to the students in the other country They did this so they could connect each other to a different culture, land, and climate to bring tundra study to life. For kids in both countries, having an authentic audience would spark new purpose for their reading, writing, and technology. By learning about each other's culture, they decided to write a book. The book was written by taking turns between both classes. By the end of the project, both countries knew more about each other than they did to start. That's all because they were connecting between iPads. It's such a …show more content…

The teachers keep a cart in certain classrooms and the students in those classes get assigned an iPad with a number. That iPad is their responsibility until the end of the class period. Then it is the next person in the next class's responsibility. In the science class, they use the iPads for a downloadable notebook, and this app called Canvas that lets you access your teacher's page where they put assignments that you have to do. In the technology class, the students go on code websites where the learn how to write code. The classes also allow the iPads to be used for research and writing papers. It's not that much different than

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