In the Globally Ready Engineering and Technology Classroom in Richmond County, North Carolina, students are not only using 3D technology to learn, they're actually contributing their own content to lesson plans, pushing the capabilities of the classroom technology to new heights, the Richmond County Daily Journal reported.
"Originally we were going to use the technology just for instructional purposes," said Jeff Epps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina's information technology director. "We decided to take it a little further and get the students involved in creating the content."
School administrators and IT directors who update technology in the classroom with an interactive whiteboard, 3D technology or an HDMI projector modernize their schools and can actually save money in the process. Many government grants support classroom technology upgrades, and state-of-the-art classroom technology devices often save energy.
Software at the Fort Bragg Transitional school allows students to build 3D objects as a class, and may represent an emerging technology in classrooms. Where professional caliber equipment is already supplementing lesson plans, classroom projectors, a long-standing presence in many schools across the country, are emerging with new capabilities, like the energy-saving LED-laser hybrid light source technology in Casio projectors, which eliminates the need for replacing mercury bulbs.
