Those teachers can also bring some of the world's best engineers directly to their students via videoconferencing. But, technology innovation efforts do not end there. Evans is an ASU engineering professor. Their design had to make technological integration tools easily accessible to all students, as well as suitable for teaching numerous subjects. The Interactive Classroom features four-table student clusters with two networked computer stations per cluster.
Students now receive English, physics, mathematics, and chemistry instruction in the room.
All four subjects are highly interconnected, yet they've traditionally been taught separately. Scientists and graduate students at the Arizona Mars K-12 Education Program use a different approach. They took science teachers to a Mars-like geological site in eastern Washington where scientists tested rovers and other equipment like those now on the surface of Mars. The group also publishes Red Planet Connection, a quarterly newsletter for K-8 classrooms, and brings teachers, students, and parents to campus for special workshops. If you are beginning to believe that the business of education is not what it used to be, you would be correct.