This enables communication with any location in the world. This project will implement a unique interactive, real time, teleconferencing network that will connect Jamestown Community College, five rural school districts with each other and local, regional, national and international business and industry resources. It will introduce students to trade and career opportunities. The program will exploit technology to redress educational deficiencies currently experienced by rural disadvantaged. Distance Learning Technology will equitably empower 13,566 rural students and teachers in 7 schools to strike down barriers that compromise performance, inhibit inquiry, confound research, curtail creativity and limit employment opportunities.
Rural students can then excel in revised state and federal performance based assessments.
The project will exploit this new access to a vast array of educational resources to redress educational inequities currently experienced by rural, disadvantaged students and teachers and will reduce isolation barriers inherent in the traditional classroom. The technology will enable the classroom teacher to develop customized instruction where content and methodology will address employment requirements of the modern workplace and career opportunities as well local environmental and civic concerns. Western New York Health Care Association Steuben, Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties RUS will providing funding to equip 7 rural hospitals with two-way videoconferencing equipment to enhance primary care, emergency care, physical therapy and medical training. The system will be used as well for community use in business training and conferencing. This project will establish a dual communications system for medical and learning needs.