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Devices in classrooms help students succeed


This week’s special Chico School Board meeting focused on a technology report.
Students have more success when teachers use laptops in their classrooms, the Chico Unified School Board learned at its meeting Wednesday.
According to John Vincent, director of the technology unit who started this research in 2014.,the benefits of devices in classrooms are:
• collaboration with students and teachers • student engagement • college and career readiness  
Marisol Lopez, a fourth-grade teacher at Rosedale School, told the board she uses Dual Immersion software to assign assessments to her students to see where the “kiddos” are falling behind.
"I teach my lesson and have the kids practice. If I have questions about if they are understanding the standard, I have them take a test on Illuminate (Dual Immersion),” Lopez said. “They take the test right away, and after they are done with the test we look at the data and look over the most missed question.”
--Salma Reyes

Salma Reyes

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