Education, like everything, has changed a lot and yet stayed much the same over the last few centuries. We mostly no longer live in societies where every student attends the same one-room schoolhouse where they’re taught by the same teacher, but actual classroom practice would still be recognisable to people from those times. Advances in pedagogy and approach often play out in these same familiar environs, in the sense that the way we teach might change a little, but the basic setup of a class remains more or less the same.
But what if it didn’t have to be this way? Advances in technology have made the world smaller, allowing instantaneous communication between people from all over the planet. Business, government, even our personal social interactions have all been shaken up by this technological revolution. So why should the humble, old-fashioned classroom be immune?
CARS & STARS Online is a digital reading comprehension program based around the repeated application of twelve core reading strategies to make students better readers who can analyse and interpret any text at a high level of understanding. The multi-level program is designed to be entirely paper-free, with all student answers being entered directly into the software, and results being instantly recorded and corrected automatically, requiring no teacher marking.
This means, in practice, that students can undertake CARS & STARS Online work from anywhere with an internet connection, on any modern device able to access the internet. Gone are the days where students would have to be chained to their desks with paper and pen, completing exactly the same work at exactly the same time, under the watchful eye of a teacher who will then take away that work and mark it all themselves.
With CARS & STARS Online students can work at school, or at home. They can work through exercises on holiday, or to catch up on weekends. They can be working in their bedroom, or outside, or even at the beach or the park. The only limit is their device’s connectivity. They are not bound by attendance or school hours, or anything other than their desire to learn.
CARS & STARS Online can make your students better readers, but it can also make them readers anywhere – at whatever time of the day they choose.
If you are interested in learning more about the CARS & STARS Online subscriptions and how they can help children to achieve better results, then sign up for a free trial to be an integral part of your child’s reading success.
