Catawba College hosts Rowan-Salisbury Schools teachers for a Technology Discovery Day - WBTV

SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - Approximately 30 Instructional Technology Facilitators from Rowan Salisbury Schools (RSS) visited Catawba College’s Alcorn Digital Learning Lab for a Discovery Day connected October 11 and 12.

“Our clip astatine the Greg and Missie Alcorn Digital Learning Lab was informative and inspirational,” said Greg Keys, RSS Coordinator of Instructional Technology. “Our unit walked retired of the circuit with tons of caller ideas to instrumentality backmost to their schools and assistance turn STEM and integer literacy wrong Rowan-Salisbury Schools. The enactment that is being done by Amanda Bosch, Zach Trivett, and Jeff Bostian is captious to the maturation of our assemblage and the betterment of the lives of everyone successful Rowan County.”

The teachers explored augmented world / virtual world and different integer tools, collaborated with peers connected acquisition plans, and brainstormed ideas connected however to embed integer literacy into the contented and program successful their idiosyncratic schools. Members of Catawba’s unit included Amanda Bosch, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship, Zach Trivett, Library Instructional Technologist, and Jeff Bostian, Learning Technology Systems Specialist.

“We anticipation this sojourn volition service arsenic an accidental for these talented educators to brainstorm strategies to leverage the existing exertion disposable successful their schools and beryllium inspired by the resources offered by Catawba College’s Greg and Missie Alcorn Digital Learning Lab,” said Bosch.

Catawba’s concern with the Rowan-Salisbury School strategy has been years successful the making. In the spring, students from Salisbury High School visited the Alcorn Digital Learning laboratory for an enhanced learning experience

providing in-depth acquisition with VR exertion and different cutting-edge technologies.

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