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St. Ambrose Catholic Primary
Their solution: Use TurningPoint® to build multiple choice slide presentations for display on the school's SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards. The answers students select are instantly stored so teachers can check how well the children have absorbed class material and to track their results over time. That information can also be used to organise study groups efficiently or to monitor differences related to factors such as gender.

Responses can be made anonymously, to encourage participation, or via a “named” TurningPoint keypad. The keypads Year 5 students keep on their desks are permanently assigned to them, giving these children instant, visible feedback on their efforts in class.

You can read the full St. Ambrose Catholic Primary case study.

Brampton Ellis Junior School
The challenge: Help to transform a former mining area with high unemployment into a community at ease with technology.

Their solution: In a region where male unemployment is stubbornly high, Brampton Ellis is eager to engage boys in learning. A project called Pit2Net paid for interactive whiteboards in every classroom and now, after just two years, the tactile and friendly controls of SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards are helping boys take their place at the front of the classroom. Initial training and support was funded by Rotherham Borough Council, but teachers are free to explore on their own how to put the technology to work for their pupils.

Big screen images from websites such as Famous People from the BBC and the National Portrait Gallery, plus animations from software such as Easiteach, are enticing students to the material.

You can read the full Brampton Ellis Junior School case study.

Stow Heath Junior School Case Study
A pocket-sized catalyst for Active Learning

How the use of PDAs has helped teachers extend the learning potential of field trips and educational visits and sharpened the quality of student interaction and participation in the classroom.

The Story
See the full Stow Heath Junior School case study.

Beatrix Potter Primary School Case Study
How personalised learning has helped both teachers and pupils to extend the learning process beyond the classroom boundaries.

The Story
The handheld devices have been used as part of Year 3’s World War I (WWI) project, which has seen the children taking video and photographs and recording sound as they research WWI soldiers’ graves at the Wandsworth Cemetery on Magdalen Road
opposite the school.As well as supporting personalised learning, the handheld devices are also encouraging the children to collaborate, both outside when they’re collecting data and inside when they are back in classroom.

See the full Beatrix Potter Primary School case study.