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Glasgow school's flagship IT

September 17, 2010 11:37

By

Stephanie Brickman

1 min read

Glasgow's Calderwood Lodge Primary has unveiled an innovative computing project geared to making it a flagship IT school in Scotland.

"There's technology that allows you to have a shared classroom experience," explained parent council chair Tony Tankel. "If there is a superb Jewish history teacher somewhere in the world, he could teach children at Calderwood. This could be done using Skype or some more advanced technology.

"Supposing a class is doing a project on Jerusalem. You could have the children taking part in the same activity as a class, for example, in Israel, or in a Jewish school in Eastern Europe."

The initial fundraising target of £25,000 has been exceeded and parent council members have spoken to companies including Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

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