Educators Use Technology To Bring World Class Schools To Their Classroom

Most educational reform come from the top down. However, World Class Schools is not most educational reforms- they want to succeed where others have failed.

(PRWEB) January 1, 2005 -- Most educational reforms are mandated from the top levels of government and have to do with such reforms dealing with accountability. World Class Schools are trying something different as they launch a new program beginning Jan. 1, 2005.

Project Director Michael Cunningham explained,"Students now days are no longer interested in learning from textbooks about things that they think are not that important. Telling a student that they need to learn this because it will appear on an important test does not motivate students like it may have done in the past. Today student motivation is the key to creativity in the classroom and management in the classroom."

Cunningham added that World Class Schools bring technology into the classroom and connects classrooms all over the world through several unique projects. These projects include daily, weekly, bimonthly, and monthly conferences with various schools from all over the world.

" The only way to be world class is to bring the world into the classroom!" Cunningham explained.

"This can be done today with little or no cost to school." Cunningham related.

Making schools more responsive to the needs of the students is not a new idea. In the past century the great American Educational Philosopher John Dewey did a great deal of work on what motivated students and how students would work much harder in his "lab" school than they would in a traditional "factory" classroom.

Cunningham explained," We are doing what Dewey did and we are turning the traditional factory high school into a real learning lab. This is educationally enriching, economical, and most importantly going to change face of education as we know it today. Today, we can make any school a world class school!"

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