Our Elementary School has gotten SMARTer over the past summer with the installation of our new SmartLab through a partnership with North Dakota Center for Distance Education and Creative Learning Systems. Dr. Nelson is guiding our students through their first year with the SmartLab and we will be opening an additional SmartLab in the new High School building next fall!
What is a SmartLab?
Students learn content through cloud based information contained in “learning launchers”. A learning launcher contains all the information that the student and their partner will need for successful project completion including; content knowledge, project instructions, and extension activities. Each SmartLab also comes with designed templates to authentically assess students using journals, presentations, and self-reflections.
In addition, each ND SmartLab comes with Dell all-in-one computers (1 per two students), additional hardware, software, and fully assembled project kits that are needed for successful completion of each learning launcher. The only thing supplied by the local school is room to place the SmartLab and the tables and chairs needed for students and the equipment.
More info: ND SmartLabs | Center for Distance Education, of North Dakota