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No Child Left Behind Act
Title I, Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged, Basic Grants
How mimio Meets Title I Requirements:
mimio is a digital and interactive whiteboard solution for K-12 educators and students. The mimio solution provides a cost effective means for teachers to deploy technology in support of integrating standards into their everyday curricula. mimio technology enabled whiteboards provide a platform for design and creation of supplemental curriculum, capturing classroom content for distribution and for supporting interactive teaching techniques in the classroom. Any mimio device is an easily assimilated tool for teaching and learning. It is a perfect solution for utilizing Title I funds, meeting many of the requirements for the intended use of this fund as outlined below:
1. Improving academic achievement of the educational disadvantaged.
- mimio digitally captures class notes and curriculum materials written or drawn on any whiteboard and provides various means of access to that data for all students via printed hardcopy or from any computer with an Internet connection - school, home, work or the library! Every child deserves to benefit from the power of the Internet - mimio adds a new dimension of information and empowerment from web delivered content to all students.
2. Acquisition of instructional materials and equipment that enable students to meet challenging State standards.
- mimio provides a means of unsurpassed cost effectiveness for teachers and schools to archive class notes and materials and make them accessible from the internet.
- mimio's real time acquisition and network distribution of notes and illustrative information eliminates the traditional impediments of manual transcription to sharing of accurate notes.
- mimio's "universal design" offers functions which in particular support acquisition of instructional materials by students with visual or physical (dysgraphia) impairments.
3. Acquisition of basic skills instructional materials and equipment to improve student achievement.
- mimio technology enables any whiteboard to become an interactive whiteboard when used with a data projector, supporting whole class teaching methods and delivering a visually shared computer display for all students from which they can observe and interact with the techniques of computer technology interaction.
- mimio facilitates student-centered and self-directed learning as a tool which permits interactive use of boards and a large platform for development of hand writing, diagramming and illustrative skills.
4. Services closely aligned with a child's regular classroom curriculum.
- mimio is a technology product, but one that provides an easy-to-use bridge between the power of technology and the universally deployed, instinctively simple and intuitively understood function of a board at the front of the classroom.
5. Professional development increasing the ability of teachers to teach.
- mimio is an outstanding tool for increasing teaching effectiveness by extending the value, relevance and reach of classroom whiteboards, both in the teacher to student and the teacher to teacher (peer to peer) context.
6. Programs that increase access to high quality, effective instructional resources and academic content to underserved student populations.
- mimio offers a low cost and flexible tool for whole class teaching using technology, in particular providing, as an interactive whiteboard, access to internet and other digitally archived resources and by providing a ready means to develop and retrieve archives of board notes and board developed teaching materials that represent recognized "best practices" in teaching.
- mimio records board data in a dynamic data format which captures sequences of events or processes, permitting review of materials in a format that better replicates the original.
mimio is a cost-effective technology supporting curriculum and technology needs of the teaching profession and the learning needs of today's students. mimio Xi portable units provide anytime, anywhere digital activation of installed whiteboard anywhere in the school system supporting teaching and development of critical thinking skills to solve problems, and communicate answers. Affordable pricing and portable configurations permit flexibility of usage formulae in applications for competitive grant funds to purchase the product.
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