Michigan gives grants for wireless technology. (Update: education news from schools, business, research and professional organizations).One district will use its $1.3 million state grant to provide all seventh-graders with wireless handhelds to concentrate on writing skills across the curriculum. Another project, funded at $1.1 million, will implement a student-centered instructional model focusing on problem-based learning problem-based learning Medical education An instruction strategy in which groups of students are presented with clinical problems without prior study or lectures. See Cooperative learning. . A third district will use its $1.1 million grant to give some fourth- and seventh-grade classrooms wireless computers to participate in online projects with students around the world. These districts are among the six first-round demonstration site grantees of Michigan's Learning Without Limits program. The program asked interested districts to demonstrate how wireless computing computing - computer technologies and applications could improve their schools' education. In addition, eight districts received funding for current projects. Bruce Montgomery Bruce Montgomery might refer to:
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