Sky Pen Pilot Program

I am so pleased to announce that Livescribe and Kehillah Jewish High School are parentering in a Pilot program for the new Sky smart pen from Livescribe.

This program is an amazing opportunity for the freshmen and their teachers to explore, discover, and share the possibilities of a fully digital workflow that begins with handwriting.  Here is a description of the program:

K12 Sky wifi smartpen Pilot Program

A pilot program at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, California will explore how high school students can use smartpens to engage in a connected and searchable education workflow and reflect on their own work to show student growth over the school year, as well as year-over-year. Students and educators will use the Sky wifi smartpen to actively support collaboration and communication.  Schoolwork and assignments, stored in Evernote notebooks, will be privately shared with students, parents and other teachers.  This makes it possible for teachers to respond and comment on work digitally.

“We’re developing a digital workflow model that makes best use of this emerging technology and empowers our students to be fully connected learners.  We are excited to finally enable our teachers to respond directly to student work in the cloud.”  Sam Patterson, Dean of Student Advising at Kehillah, sees not only to potential for greater digital connection, but also a greater personal one, “The more we are co-users of technology with students the more open they will be to learn and explore with us.”

A computer, calculator, pen: SKY is amazing

The Sky wifi smartpen pilot program will culminate in the spring 2013, at which time Livescribe will share highlights and results of the program.

The school will be working with Livescribe throughout the process to support the teachers and students.  The students will have a chance to learn about using the pen with Janet from Livescribe on Thursday 11/29, she will be training all of us for the day.