Catawba hosts RSS teachers for Discovery Day - Salisbury Post - Salisbury Post

Published 12:00 americium Thursday, October 20, 2022

Catawba News Service

SALISBURY — Approximately 30 instructional exertion facilitators from Rowan-Salisbury Schools (RSS) visited Catawba College’s Alcorn Digital Learning Lab for a Discovery Day connected Oct.11-12.

“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 reality/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 schools. Members of Catawba’s unit included Amanda Bosch, manager of integer pedagogy and scholarship; Zach Trivett, room instructional technologist; and Jeff Bostian, learning exertion 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 Lab for an enhanced learning acquisition providing in-depth acquisition with VR exertion and different cutting-edge technologies.