The iSchool Initiative is teaching school districts how to build better classrooms with technology.
It is, in its way, a school bus, but it’s not the big yellow bus of your childhood. The iSchool Initiative’s Digital Learning Revolution Tour (DLRTour) might be the bus that delivers a new idea of school to the next generation of students.
The iSchool Initiative started when Travis Allen’s high school teacher confiscated his smartphone — the smartphone he had been using to take class notes. In a telephone interview with InformationWeek, Travis said, “I was a high school student five years ago and I used my phone to do everything. As you can imagine, I was taking notes and the policy was ‘no cell phones.’ It was confiscated, and I went home complaining. My parents looked at me and said, ‘Stop talking and do something about it.'”
