{"id":66387,"date":"2008-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-school-of-education-awarded-5-6-million-to-boost-role-of-technology-in-teaching-science-math\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T00:00:00","slug":"uri-school-of-education-awarded-5-6-million-to-boost-role-of-technology-in-teaching-science-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/uri-school-of-education-awarded-5-6-million-to-boost-role-of-technology-in-teaching-science-math\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 School of Education awarded $5.6 million to boost role of technology in teaching science, math"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tProject to target mobile teachers, learners<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 26, 2008 \u2013 Because of laptop computers, cell phones and MP3 players, today\u2019s students are able to learn anywhere, anytime. In short, their learning style is nomadic.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s School of Education is determined to keep its education majors and beginning teachers in the race by developing New Order, Multi-Modal, Advanced-Design (NOMAD) Learning Spaces.<\/p>\n


\n\tThrough a $5.6 million state grant, the School of Education is providing its teacher education students with access to current hardware, software and models of effective use of technology for instruction. Funds have also been allocated to Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island for similar initiatives. The Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education has emphasized that the money will help the three schools collaborate and develop consistency in how technology is used in teacher education.<\/p>\n


\nFor teachers already in the classroom, the University is offering and developing teaching tools that will give them and their students access to the latest science, math, engineering and technology professional development and programming content.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe program is targeting science, technology and math teachers, as well as those University students preparing to teach in those fields, with an ongoing goal of trying to increase the numbers of individuals qualified to teach in those areas.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis project is an answer to the question \u2018how do we ensure that teachers effectively use technology to enhance student learning,\u201d said David Byrd, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 School of Education, which is part of the College of Human Science and Services. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cOur own students preparing to be pre-kindergarten through grade 12 teachers need to be ready to use these tools skillfully when they enter the workforce, and current teachers need support so they can use technology as a collaborative tool to enhance learning in all areas. This project will help students and teachers access exciting discoveries, research and education developments at 溏心vlog免费B站 and elsewhere as they move about their lives,\u201d Byrd said.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Narragansett resident said the grant was a result of cooperation among the Rhode Island Office of Higher Education, the General Assembly and the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe overall goal of the project is to support knowledge transmission within the classroom and over the Internet so that collaborative activities become easier and more productive.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe funding is earmarked for enhancements in 30 classrooms and four auditoriums in 10 buildings at three of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s campuses. The money will also be used to purchase software, web services, social software, online learning, remote experimentation and visualizations, scientific probes and lab instrumentation.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe existing buildings slated for improvements where education majors and beginning teachers take classes are the Chafee Social Science Center, headquarters of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s teacher education program; East, Pastore and Quinn Halls; and the Providence Campus. Twelve rooms in these buildings will provide significantly improved flexibility for use of technology.<\/p>\n


\n\tThree buildings under construction or renovation are also going to receive technology upgrades to provide digital streaming of scientific content for 溏心vlog免费B站 students and other students within the state. Those buildings are the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, the Narragansett Bay Campus\u2019 Pell Library\/Inner Space Center and Lippitt Hall, home of the Department of Mathematics.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve earmarked about $1 million of the grant for work with the public schools,\u201d said Associate Professor Pete Adamy, project academic coordinator.<\/p>\n


\nAdamy said a prime example is Oceanography Professor Robert Ballard\u2019s Inner Space Center and its work with Smithfield High School. The high school is equipped with technology that is linked with the Inner Space Center at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Narragansett Bay Campus. The equipment allows students and teachers at the high school to view and communicate with Ballard\u2019s oceanographic research expeditions as they happen.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe want to expand these types of opportunities to many other schools,\u201d Adamy said. \u201cEveryone remembers Generation X, well now we are preparing to educate the teachers and students of Generation Net.\u201d <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Project to target mobile teachers, learners KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 26, 2008 \u2013 Because of laptop computers, cell phones and MP3 players, today\u2019s students are able to learn anywhere, anytime. In short, their learning style is nomadic. The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s School of Education is determined to keep its education majors and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}