Newest Addition to SMART lab Offers a
Team-Based Activity that Allow Students to Contribute from their
Own Devices
CALGARY, Aug. 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - SMART
Technologies Inc., a leading provider of education and business
collaboration solutions, announced today the launch of Monster
Quiz, the latest addition to SMART lab included in the SMART
Learning Suite™.
Leveraging student devices and collaboration via competition,
Monster Quiz is an interactive activity that helps teachers make
critical thinking fun and engaging. Teachers save precious lesson
preparation time and gain insight into student comprehension by
easily adding engaging, curriculum-focused games to their lessons
in under five minutes. Monster Quiz is an integral development in
SMART's strategy to innovate through game- and play-based learning
solutions.
"We are thrilled to add another game-based activity to our
lesson-building software for teachers. SMART's latest game-based
innovation reinforces teacher defined lesson content and gives
students and teachers insight into their performance," said
Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART
Technologies. "Our research shows that students need critical
thinking skills to get ahead in the future workforce. We believe
games help build these skills and we strive to ensure that SMART
lab activities leverage intrinsic motivators such as overcoming
challenges, encouraging teamwork, and just as importantly,
instilling the element of fun into learning," he said.
Monster Quiz incorporates game mechanics, and thematic visual
and auditory cues to create a game environment that elevates
students out of their ordinary classroom experience and makes
learning fun. Students are put in teams to individually answer
teacher defined questions, with individual performances
contributing to the team's overall score. The more correct answers
a team receives, the more their monster hatches to eventually
reveal a unique monster. The first group to answer all the
questions correctly is the winning team.
"My students love Monster Quiz," said Ronald Fisher, fourth grade teacher at Century
Elementary in Bear River City,
Utah. "By taking elements of other gaming applications, my
lessons are now truly interactive and I've seen more of my students
excited and engaged than ever before."
To learn more about SMART lab visit:
https://education.smarttech.com/en/products/smart-learning-suite/smart-lab
About SMART Technologies
SMART Technologies Inc.
(NASDAQ: SMT, TSX: SMA) is a world leader in simple and intuitive
solutions that enable more natural collaboration. We are an
innovator in interactive touch technologies and software that
inspire collaboration in both education and business around the
globe. To learn more, visit smarttech.com.
SMT
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