Teachers responding to GenevaLogic survey report vision "revolutionizes" their computer labs.
Portland, OR and Langenthal, Switzerland (PRWEB) November 13, 2007 -- Nearly 85 percent of teachers who use Vision® classroom management software to teach with technology report that it increases their interaction with students and gives them more time to focus on individual student needs, a GenevaLogic survey of teachers, technology coordinators and school library media specialists revealed. A white paper, "Classroom Technology & Student-Teacher Interaction," featuring the results of this survey is available from the GenevaLogic Web site.
Founded in 1996, GenevaLogic is a privately held company whose Vision classroom management software is used in more than 50,000 classrooms worldwide. Vision is the easy-to-use classroom management software that empowers teachers and trainers to guide and supervise student computer activity from the instructor's computer screen. Teachers use Vision to enhance learning, supervise student progress, monitor or prevent Web browsing, share computer screens and remotely control student computers.
In responding to the survey, teachers shared the way that Vision has "revolutionized" teaching with technology. Molly Brog, a teacher at La Grande High School in Oregon, said, "Vision has revolutionized instruction in a lab setting. Kids are engaged in learning, and they are able to see lessons and other supplementary materials at close range."
Christa Varacalli, a teacher at Hamilton West High School in New Jersey, was among those who said Vision gives them more time to personalize instruction. "Students seem much more excited about their work when they know it is being viewed," she said. "They try harder, knowing I could see their work at any time. Students in the far reaches of the room can now get as much attention as those in the front areas."
Tamille Buckell, a computer lab instructional aide coordinator at Santa Fe Middle School in Monrovia, Calif., also said that teaching with Vision has transformed her computer lab. "The tone of this lab has changed from a place where students call out questions and get frustrated with my inability to help them all to a place where instructions, methods and techniques are modeled first. It's a lot more productive."
To extend the opportunity to see the way that Vision can transform teaching with technology, the GenevaLogic Foundation recently announced the GenevaLogic Visionary Grants. Four GenevaLogic Visionary Grants, designed to recognize teachers who have an innovative vision of the ways that instructional technology powered by Vision classroom management software can improve teaching and learning, will be awarded in January 2008.
Successful applicants are eligible to receive either a Vision Class Kit or a Vision School Kit. In addition, all grantees will also receive a personal membership in the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®), which includes many valuable benefits, such as a subscription to one of the organization's leading publications, discounts on books and materials, and discounted registration for the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). The deadline for applications is Dec. 28, 2007. More information and applications are available at http://www.GenevaLogicFoundation.org.
About GenevaLogic
GenevaLogic (www.GenevaLogic.com) has one passion: enabling educators to manage, control and optimize the use of technology to support teaching and learning. Founded in 1996, with headquarters in Langenthal, Switzerland, and Portland, Ore., the privately held company is an international leader in active teaching systems whose Vision classroom management software is used in more than 50,000 classrooms worldwide. The company's education software solutions - Vision, App-Control, Surf-Lock, Pointer, Plan-It™, Protect-On™, Print-Limit™ and Print-Limit Pro™ - allow schools, universities and training centers to get more learning value from their technology investments.
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