My first Magazine Lamplighters Yeshivah Annual Report 2015-2016 | Page 14

How a little piece of technology
blossomed into something

incredible

independent learners? How might we ensure
our solution isn’t a bandaid on a deeper issue? We need to find a way for students to fit
more content and learning into their days!

AN EXPERIMENT WAS BORN

Around March time, a conversation was
sparked. The EB4 students, 4th - 5th graders,
were simply running out of time each day for
all of their learning and hitting all their subjects. After many discussions, their teachers
ideated on how to solve this challenge. How
might we teach one subject area in a way that
won’t sacrifice another? How might we utilize the fact that our students are focused and

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Together with the ed team, Rabbi Newman
began to research for a device and program
he could use to capture his lessons. This way,
students would learn the recorded lessons
quickly, independently, and at their own
pace. Voila-- more time for more learning.
This program needed to be quick and easy to
record and upload lessons, since he would be
producing the content, and it needed to be a
device that was inexpensive, safe, and supported cloud access. It had to teach the students the 4 layers of learning any pasuk: the
“story”, the trup, the translation, and self-as-

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sessment questions. After trying a few different apps, he found the right one! We purchased four $49 Kindle tablets (knowing that
we could use them in other ways if it didn’t
work out), and got to work.

THE FIRST DAYS DAYS WITH
THE TABLETS
Only four boys started the tablet implementation with only one subject, Chumash.
Here’s how the program would work: The
boys would set the kindle next to the Chumash to act as a guide and the help of the
pre-recorded lesson on the app. They would
learn all 4 layers of the verse, independently.
They would then go through the additional
worksheets we incorporated, assessments
with their Rebbe, and they would record their
progress on tracking for each posuk.

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