Visit from Senator Martins
On Wednesday Senator Martins met me at the Middle School to witness first hand our ipad initiative. Last year his grant of $50,000 allowed us to purchase ipads for the entire Middle school this year. As usual are students were incredibly impressive and articulate. Below is a press release that his office submitted.
Senator Martins Visits Mineola Middle School as Students Use Technology to Learn
The Mineola School District, thanks to the efforts of Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michael Nagler, the Board of Education, administrators and community, is on the cutting edge of employing technology as a effective tool for teaching and learning.
Using grant funding obtained by Senator Jack M. Martins, the district purchased IPads for use in the classroom at Mineola Middle School to enhance the solid education students are already receiving. Recently, Senator Martins visited the middle school, meeting with Dr. Nagler and Principal Matt Gaven, to see how the IPads on being used.
Senator Martins visited Mr. Luskoff’s seventh grade social studies class, where the senator was able to see firsthand how the students use IPads in the classroom to learn about American history by downloading content and participating in an interactive experience.
“The Mineola School District is doing some wonderful things. The use of technology engages the students and students who are engaged, learn much more effectively. My compliments to the administration, board, staff and the students themselves for their efforts,” Senator Martins said.
While at Mineola Middle School, the school was being visited by some of the members of the Uniondale School District community who wanted to learn more about Mineola’s use of technology to possibly expand their own program. The representatives from Uniondale came away extremely impressed with the staff and students in Mineola.
Thank you very much for your response Mr. Nagler! Looking forward to the Ipad release of Compass Learning.
I forgot to mention that our Middle School students do not use Compass Learning- they use eSpark; a product designed for ipads. eSpark also delivers differentiated HW.
Compass Learning is working on an iPad app to address this problem. They inform me that it will be a Spring release. I am hopeful we can Beta the product.
I really like this initiative. Bringing today’s technology to help kids learn make them more engaged in the learning process as I can see based on my 6-year old daughter. But she can’t use her Ipad to do Compass Learning, and access other flash-based education web sites for example (we have to use our PC). Is this aspect of adopting Ipads being considered?