PASCO’s Interactive, Hands-on Science Technology for Education in Kazakhstan

It was interesting for me to look for new technologies in education launched in my home country. Among several curious projects I came up to pasco.com and the related article of Dixon K. (2009) 'Republic of Kazakhstan Embraces PASCO's Interactive, Hands-on Science Technology for Education'. PASCO is a website providing and describing latest innovative products for education, in particular, for science, engineering and environment.

As it was mentioned in the article, PASCO participated in Kazakhstan's  efforts to infuse schools with innovative technology and build world-class educational system. Kazakhstan high school students will use PASCO's Xplorer GLX, a standalone graphing data logger that captures, analyzes, annotates, stores and prints data and seamingly, without being connected to a computer. PASCO has also the high schools with labs and lab apparatus for chemistry, physics and biology.

More than 4000 teachers have been trained on PASCO's solutions and now applying them in classroom along with products from Promethean, a global leader in interactive learning technologies such as whiteboards, software and learning response systems; and LJCreate, a UK company offering topic specific learning solutions and complete classroom management systems for STEM curricula.

Promethean product: whiteboard

LJCreate's eLearning resources

Summary

They say older generation does not accept innovations. Our Physics teacher was seventy years old when our school was equipped with interactive whiteboards and other new technologies. She could spend all days to learn how they work and how they can be implemented into educational process. Innovations are good and effective when used skillfully.

Despite the fact that this article was published in 2009, a considerably long time ago, there are still problems in purchasing, launching and using those technologies. As for me, I am only familiar with whiteboards, but I would also like to try other high-tech things. PASCO, in this cas, in my opinion, is a gerat source.

References:

Dixon K. (2009). Republic of Kazakhstan Embraces PASCO's Interactive, Hands-on Science Technology for Education, published on January 15th, from http://www.pasco.com/about/news/press-releases/republic-of-kazakhstan-embraces-pascos-interactive-hands-on-science-technology-for-education.cfm

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