Rob Smith Assistant Managing Editor A grant from the Digital Blackboard Foundation changed Sue Pike's entire outlook on teaching. A big one with me is authentic learning.
Technology just happens to be the tool the best teachers are using.
A main thrust of the foundation is to award grants to less-affluent areas where students have little access to technology. Foster had already established a sister-school relationship with an elementary school in Senegal. As part of that endeavor, Foster students sent the school a photo essay and more than 100 pounds of school supplies. They also held a teleconference with students in their sister school two years ago. In 1999 Pike, with help from the World Affairs Council in Seattle, applied for a grant to hold a video conference with a high school in Dakar, Senegal.