Many Teachers Gather for CCS Arizona & SMART Technologies Content Summit
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More than 60 K-5th grade teachers from across Arizona gathered for an intensive two-day conference focusing on elementary content creation in mid-June.
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More than 60 K-5th grade teachers from across Arizona gathered for an intensive two-day conference focusing on elementary content creation in mid-June. These elementary school educators discovered how to create professional, interactive, and sharable lesson activities for the SMART Notebook software at the Summit.
CCS Presentation Systems and SMART Technologies hosted the two-day content creation event “SMART™ Elementary Content Creation Summit” at the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, AZ. More than 60 kindergarten – 5th grade teachers applied earlier in the year to secure a spot at this very special event, which focused on best practices for building digital interactive lessons and new audio-visual solutions based on Common Core State Standards.
“Technology use is becoming such a key part of today’s educational makeup,” said CCS Arizona Marketing Manager, Julie Solomon. “CCS Presentations Systems is looking to bring to elementary educators with a passion for technology a unique professional development opportunity in the area of SMART product integration.”
To promote collaboration to its fullest levels of excellence, teachers attending the SMART Content Creation Summit worked together with peers of the same grade-level/content area. Among the tools they used were the new SMART collaborative learning table, SMART’s new interactive LCD display and the world’s first touch-enabled projector.
An extra highlight for the teachers is that motivational speaker Kurt Schwengel, known for his education movement “Occupy Kindergarten” spoke to the group on Wednesday, June 19. Schwengel has taught Kindergarten in Santa Monica since 1995 and his Ted Talk on Occupy Kindergarten has reached thousands of teachers across the country.
At this event, CCS’s Certified Training Specialists, and a SMART Educational experts worked with attendees on designing interactive SMART lessons. Participants at this event will work collaboratively to create standard-based lessons specific to the SMART technologies they currently use in their classrooms.
This was a fantastic jam-packed, two day content creation event where nearly 100 pre-K–5 grade educators will use SMART’s powerful interactive Notebook software to accelerate learning for today’s students held at The Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.
“The growth of portable devices, touch screen displays and interactive whiteboards in schools is helping to bring a renewed focus on digital education in school districts,” said Solomon.
More than 2.3 million SMART Board interactive whiteboards have been installed globally in education, business and government settings, with more than 2 million installed in K–12 classrooms, reaching more than 40 million students and teachers. SMART Notebook collaborative learning software has been downloaded by more than six million users in over 175 countries around the world.
With teachers and school districts taking the lead on digital education, and help from the US government in rallying audio-visual systems providers to find digital solutions, the future for increased digital education is growing brighter by the day.
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http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Many Teachers Gather for CCS Arizona & SMART Technologies Content Summit_274786.aspx
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Article Source: CCS PresentationSystems
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building digital interactive lessons, new audio-visual solutions, Notebook software, CCS PresentationSystems,
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