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Tech-Savvy Teachers Build Educational Apps in Pilot Program
Gotham Schools
Dara Ross didn't know how to write code or develop online software until she joined a pilot program that offered to help teachers use technology in the classroom last year. By the program's end, the high school English teacher had helped build several of her own educational mobile apps, including one that assesses her students' emotions after they read. Another one featured an animated robot that acted as a reading buddy. She and five fellow teachers did that with the help of tech savvy mentors as participants in Digital Teachers Corp, a program launched last year by New Visions for Public Schools, a national non-profit organization, and as lab members in EDesign Lab, an initiative to bridge the educational technology gap between software developers and educators.
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