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The new school in Hamilton, Montana

Kathleen Dent wants to see Hamilton students make the most of the new Web-based tools that are transforming the American classroom.

Where schools were run on a model that has one teacher, chalk or dry erase pen in hand, standing in front of 20 to 30 students, technology now allows that same teacher to track students’ individual progress in real time.

As curriculum director for the Hamilton School District, Dent has watched as the technological tools available to teachers have grown in sophistication. The online lesson plans and tests (often standard with many textbooks), multimedia demonstrations and PowerPoint displays are now ubiquitous in a savvy educator’s tool box.

The next step in the high-tech evolution of American schools, the use of powerful online teaching programs – Dent signed Hamilton Middle School onto a state Office of Public Instruction-initiated pilot project to test a prompt-driven writing tutorial called My Access – is central the future of education, Dent said.

by SEPP JANNOTTA – Ravalli Republic

Full Story: http://www.ravallirepublic.com/news/local/education/article_3f300c96-5724-11df-87a0-001cc4c002e0.html

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