Sherwood Middle School Case Study

As Sherwood Middle School’s computers are collecting dust and becoming slow Archaic machines they had to make a decision to upgrade.This year at the Sherwood Middle School whether it’s your first year at the middle school or last in eighth grade they have updated it from the ancient 100 year old technology

To some of the top Electronics on the market. These old resources couldn’t power much of the modern tasks the school runs today and there are lots of reported common issues with them. Even some of the projectors Exploded on rare cases put there were many that the light bulb inside burned out. They updated this year to TVs as monitors, Projectors, Google streaming devices, and new computers. The old technology as getting outdated so

every 10 years they update it so this was the year, with raising enough money over the course of eight to ten years this is what some of the money went into investing. Some of the places they decided to update where most obviously class rooms along with the media center and the computer labs. With this it will increase the immersive learning environment in addition to allowing different ways to teach and help in some ways. They’re many reason why the fellow sherwood middle schools didn’t either put the new technology, the new electronics has all the features that will improve the learning environment with this SMS will be able to reach teaching goals like never before.

Last School year the 2015-2016 year the technology was 8-15 year of age and was slow and bulky. For a start the computers couldn’t run most tools used by students and small games that were online. The projectos in the class rooms were so low light people had to have the lights out to view keep in mind that's not to enhance the experience just to able to see it and the focus on those things were horrendous. Projectos are already low resolution but paired with a hdmi cable it’s worse . To even put the document camera in the spotlight they’re had been an incident in Mr Schmitz 7th grade social studies class of his blowing up. Students report it smelling like burnt rubber. The most tedious part about it was how every year the light bulbs in the projectos cost 75 dollars to replaces being less cost effective than new. SMS made a goal the next that they were going to upgrade to the new potentially improving the learning environment.

Sherwood Middle School made a plan to make all of the classrooms custom fitted to their needs and have capabilities for each of the teachers.

For classrooms small and compact the added Vizio smart TVs that were bright and high resolution. These Tvs were family movie theater quality that are good with dealing with glare. In class rooms large and with more overhead room the add more a projector above smart board which is a more of a in one unit that also higher quality and brighter. This setup is much better the previous where the projects was on a desk next the board so when people walk by it interferes where as this it doesn't and keeps cables out of the way. This year they added a new kind of system that was a streaming device it is made by Google and it is called the Chromecast. The Chromecast allows teachers and staff to broadcast from their computer without cables, wirelessly across the school. This also allows teachers to be able to teach classrooms without having to go bring their laptops and for staff to direct meetings without having to have a massive system of equipment. The Chromecast is a small compact HDMI machine able to plug it right into the projector or TV so it is hidden and out of sight. It is also able to access Google equipment including Google documents and much more so they're able to stream that and YouTube which will be helpful for learning

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All this new technology provided to SMS has made the classroom for teachers an easy task electronic wise. The old technology was best was best 15 years ago but now it is ancient and lots more money to maintain than the new.

The old Technology had many issues that distracted this learning environment and many incidents occurred including overheating and blowing up with this came expensive light fixtures inside the projectors. But now with the new modern technology a wire free learning environment has become more of a reality and appeals to much more teachers and students that all things to Google. This technology has allowed much higher resolution monitors and content to review. This wireless streaming also allows for teachers and staff to be able to quickly present and share to fellow workers and employees in the school. This is why SMS upgraded from the old to the top tech and how they're ahead with their top equipment on the market versus other middle schools in the nearby area.