During the Professional Development day on October 20th, teachers at Rodgers Forge Elementary got a chance to play—yes, even teachers need playtime, too! Teachers were given a few hours to interact with a number of low tech and high tech tools that our school has on hand for teacher and student use, including but not limited to, drones, 3Doodler pens, Makedo cardboard kits, Ozobots, Spheros, littleBits, Strawbees, Makey Makeys, and Cubelets. Teachers spent the morning trying out the tools and looking for ways to give their students challenging and rigorous learning opportunities with the tools. Rodgers Forge Elementary has the unique experience of being one of three BCPS elementary schools partnering with Workbench, a Baltimore-based technology company that is leading the way through hands-on and project-based learning. Teachers were also introduced to the Workbench Platform on this day, and they were supported in using some of the new tech tools both in person and remotely through web conferencing by Danika and Zach, two amazing Workbench employees. Keep an eye and ear out for some awesome project-based learning ideas to be shared from our teachers!
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