The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a non-profit advocacy group, is collaborating with Qualcomm, Kajeet for Education, and HTC to launch an initiative designed to “empower pre-service/student teachers with advanced wireless technologies.” The project will promote communication, collaboration, and the availability of resources for first-time teachers.
Five universities have been selected to pilot the project: Arizona State, Georgia State, University of New Mexico, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and the University of Texas at El Paso. Two hundred pre-service teachers at each university have been given wireless mobile devices to help “overcome the isolation of stand-alone teachers in self-contained classrooms…”
Specific information on the exact design and desired outcomes of the program have yet to be released. As it becomes available, information will be found at http://www.nctaf.org/
To read the full press release announcing this initiative, please visit http://www.learningteams.org/
