4- Sunday, March 2, 1997 — North Shore News From page 3 Emily Craig, 14, sits at a computer next to her friend. Craig has a computer it home but it’s mostly for word pro- cessing. “Idon’t have 2 program like this. It’s fun, it’s really interesting “| kind of feel bad that we have so many (computers) and other schools don’t have many, bur at the same time it’s nice that we have such nice computers,” Rockridge principal Maureen Smiley notes the school incorporates different technologies through business parmerships with companies ike B.C. Tel and Dynacom. The school also works in three-way partnership with the ministry of education, Education Management Group (EMG) and the school EMG is owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount Studios, publisher Simon and Schuster ‘and Blockbuster Video. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, EMG funnels pro- gramming to the school via satellite. Rockridge is the first devel- opmental test site in Canada using the services of EMG. Teachers can dial a 1-800 - Aumber and request video or ‘faxed -resources from = the :» EMG command centre in ". Scottsdale. - ‘-_. The EMG. component of > the high-tech rools available at the school has been up and a wads ‘for two months. Smiley, “We are going lowly and Bemposefuly with NEWS photo Miko Wakefield ROCKAIDGE middle schoo! teacher Dale Lundstrom, right, discusses human anatomy with science student Casey Dewitt. the intent to evaluate and be accountable for what we are doing. Right now it’s an indi- vidual (teacher's) comfort level with the technology. Some of the teachers are very comfortable and others are very tentative.” Hundreds of schools throughout the U.S. are plugged into EMG. Jason Bristow and Kerren Bottay, 14, are among a group of students who create Rockridge Online and Rockridge Files. Live video and audio news is piped into school classrooms. Explains Bortay: “Rock- tidge Online is our morning ‘the SALMON announcements. We bring it using Power Point and live video accompanied by audio. Rockridge Files is a TV broad- cast we do using a closed-cir- cuit television system in the school. It’s completely live.” What does Bristow enjoy most about the process? “Problem solving, like just trying to fix our computer,” he said. The owo are part of a task force of about 20 students who assist teachers and stu- dents in the classroom. The initiative is just one example of how the tradition- al teacher-pupil paradi is shifting at Rockridge. = Said Smiley, “We have a highly developed, _high- knowledge group of stu- dents. They’re the ones who can run this equipment and they’re teaching us and they’re also learning from each other.” Science teacher Dale Lundstrom works with a Grade 9 group, exploring the finer points o human physiol- ogy and the circulatory sys- tem. The students have mapped the parts of the body on to a full size paper cut-out of a body. Said Lundstrom, “It’s low- tech and it still has good value. At the same time I HOUSE include 2 jot of high-tech.” He works with a laser disc loaded with images, text and movies for display on a class- room video terminal. He finds the marriage of technology and more tradi- tional classroom methods “very satisfactory. “It just gives you more tools. It helps me to get con- cepts across and communicate better with the _ kids,” Lundstrom said. The science fab is equipped with a free-standing computer available for students to take notes on. There is also a pod of computers with Internet access via EMG satellite. Regardless of how far high-tech tools become entrenched in school class- rooms Lundstrom believes good teaching will remain the ‘oundation. “These are tools. The teacher still decides what is going to be taught and how,” he said While: at Hillside, Lundstrom was involved in piloting much of the technol- ogy now in place at High-tech tools tapped for learning Rockridge. “Tai still on a high learn- ing curve as a teacher, figuring out how it bes? will service what [ want to do with it,” he said. Nancy Masterman-Boyd teaches a Grade 9 class on social studies and broadcast- ing. They're exploring a unit On virco. Said Masterman-Boyd, “They do the research, then they’re taught how to use a camcorder, plan shots, edit and use the lighting. "EMG - rovided us with the video on iow to use a camcorder.” The class also tapped EMG for an interactive instructional video component. Masterman-Boyd is leam: ing along with her students. “I will always be a journcy- man with the technology. The - students will be the masters. I have no illusions that a num-. ..: ber of my students know way .. more than me, but that where we're at. 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