Innovation Showcase Set for Monday at Wheeling Park High School
Ohio County Schools students to show their projects Monday at WPHS
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WHEELING -- Students in Ohio County Schools have new technology tools available to them this year, and they will show what they have done with these tools Monday at Wheeling Park High School.
The school is holding its first "Innovation Showcase" from 4:30-6 p.m. in the WPHS media center, and is open to the public.
The event is being organized by Ohio County School Innovation Coordinator JoJo Shay, and will involve students and teachers in grades K-12 from each school in the Ohio County school system.
"This year our teachers have been implementing activities in the classroom with the support of our innovation team, and we thought it would be a great idea to showcase the students' work," she said.
Each Ohio County School will be represented at the showcase, with students and teachers demonstrating how technology is changing learning in the classrooms and what they are doing. This year, all sixth grade students in Ohio County were given Chromebooks to use, and this "one-to-one" initiative will be extended to students in grades 7-12 beginning with the next school year.
Over 200 "partners in education" with Ohio County Schools have been invited to attend, as have local elected officials, according to Shay.
"We're hoping we can demonstrate to them the way we are trying to shape education," she said.
There will be robotics activities during the showcase, and demonstrations on how Google tools available to students and teachers are being used, Shay said.
Students have been using Google "Book Creator" to create their own publications, while teachers have been assembling images and videos for "virtual field trips" in the classroom.
There also will be exhibitions of coding and 3-D printing by teachers and students.
Sixty-two teachers have been invited, with the number of students expected to attend still being determined, according to Shay. The event may exceed space within the media center, according to Shay.
"We might have to spill out, But that's a good thing that we have so many innovative activities happening in our classrooms," she said.