In the future, teachers will teach, and students will learn in the paperless classroom. A classroom where most of the learning is done on devices, where students are instantly linked to each other and to the teacher, and where records and results are instantly updated. Paperless schools are better for the environment and for the spine. They remove headaches surrounding tracking down errant pieces of work for both students and educators, and they appeal to a generation of students that is as comfortable with technology as they are with breathing.
CARS & STARS Online is fully committed to the ideal of the paperless classroom. In fact, if you so choose it can be a completely digital experience for both student and educator.
Students read stories on their devices and answer multiple-choice questions immediately afterwards by selecting options rather than marking worksheets or submitting written answers. Results are transmitted instantly with no handover process necessary. Gone are the days of children having to remember to bring their written homework with them to school the next day for submission and marking. With CARS & STARS Online, the process is entirely automated and completely integrated into the student experience.
Best of all, this digital experience can travel with both the student and the teacher – CARS & STARS Online is accessible from any device at any time.
For teachers, CARS & STARS Online eliminates the need to hand out and take in heavy textbooks, and there is no work to collect at the end of the class for marking. In fact, there’s barely any marking – student responses are immediately checked upon submission and require no correction. Records of results and student progress are all part of the system. For teachers, CARS & STARS Online removes heavy, time-consuming paper tasks and allows them to focus on the most important element – their teaching.
Students can login to CARS & STARS Online on one device and begin exercises, then login later from another and resume from exactly where they left off. This means that – unlike with forgetting a printed textbook at home – students never have the excuse of not having the program with them. They work through the program entirely online, with no paper or physical support required.
CARS & STARS Online doesn’t just replace a mountain of printed books, it replaces decades of thinking a certain way about how students interact with learning and how we approach teaching today. Its strategies-based instruction is already a new way of thinking about teaching reading comprehension, but its online content delivery and digital workspace is a new way of thinking about the classroom.
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.
