Top 10 Returns On Investment
With budgets slashed, NCLB-inspired demands for quick spikes in student achievement, and the public clamoring for proof that technology is really working in education, all eyes are on the bottom line.
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School Facility Planners Hear Researchers' Case For Auditory Systems
Want to improve learning in elementary schools? Try installing speakers in ceilings and giving microphones to students. At least that’s the conclusion of new research presented at a recent seminar here showing that elementary students in classrooms that were equipped with sound systems...
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Classroom amplification boosts learning
Anyone who's ever been in an elementary school knows that classrooms can be noisy. And if you consider the number of children who have ear infections or other ear problems, it's easy to see how hearing what the teacher is saying can become a problem. But advances in technology offer a simple solution: amplify the teacher's voice.
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Position Paper: Sound Field Classroom Amplification Systems
A number of AEAs [Area Education Agencies] have already purchased units or acquired them through the use of grants in order to determine the benefit provided to children in the classroom. We feel it would be valuable to coordinate these efforts to test and evaluate the concept on a larger scale across the state. By combining our efforts with one or more of the universities, we could possibly gather some useful data.
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Odyssey School
Odyssey School also uses an FM classroom amplification system that modulates and enhances the speaker’s voice while making it easier for listeners to pay attention and process the information they are hearing.
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