A child who cannot attend classes is in danger of being "Left Behind.".A teacher's assessment of a student's progress and interaction with peers on class topics can be as comfortable as a normal phone call. TEC International's MultiTelepatcher Audio Conference System is a valuable collaboration tool A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. within the distance learning education field. Various classroom sizes, as well as teaching styles, are easily accommodated. In a typical application, a student places a call into the Telepatcher at an appointed time and day, and enters a personal identification number, or PIN. The PIN number routes the student to one of eight separate "classrooms" based on a predetermined pre·de·ter·mine v. pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing, pre·de·ter·mines v.tr. 1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance: schedule. The teacher, using his or her own PIN number, can be waiting in the classroom to greet the student and take roll call. The teacher has a real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. display of student names as they join the class, via a graphic interface. The teacher can deliver a lesson plan, then place a student in a listen-only mode. If a student requires assistance, the student can press a key on the phone to signal the teacher, who then can either talk privately with the student, or allow the entire class to listen in. The teacher can also choose an open forum and conduct class with full participation of all the students. Using a few simple mouse clicks, the teacher has full control over the session, including one-on-one one-on-one adj. 1. Consisting of or being direct communication or exchange between two people: one-on-one instruction. 2. Sports Playing directly or exclusively against a single opponent. dialogs, muting muting removal of the capacity of an animal to make a loud call. In the dog this is done by removal of a small part of each vocal cord. during quiet study, Q & A, or even transferring or disconnecting a student. Class size may range from 1 to 47 students. It is this flexibility and personal contact that makes this style of learning so valuable. The Telepatcher may be augmented by Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the technology, but the expense is not a necessary burden for parents without those resources, enabling them to close the achievement gap. |
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