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Vivi is the only wireless screen mirroring and digital signage tool designed for education. The company helps IT help teachers help students with classroom technology that enhances collaboration, control, and creativity. Vivi currently supports more than 1,000 schools, 40,000 classrooms, and 250,000 students and teachers.
Technology-Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) is a teaching format that merges lectures, simulations, and hands-on desktop experiments to create a rich collaborative learning experience.
TEAL classes feature collaborative learning, desktop experiments with data acquisition links to laptops, media-rich simulations and personal response systems that stimulate interaction between students and lecturers.
Studies have found that using TEAL effectively can produce higher attendance rates in physics classes, greater student engagement in extracurricular science activities and teachers being more enthusiastic and confident in helping students strengthen their physics concepts.
Vivi’s executive team said they have been following the topic of technology-enabled active learning very closely and sees many similarities to the work that Vivi has already been doing in Australian schools.
“TEAL is all about changing from traditional lecture setting to a more interactive and engaging learning environment,” they told The Educator.
“With Vivi, teachers are now free to roam around the classroom, students are able to see what other students are doing to problem solve using screen sharing, and students are now an active participant in learning.”
The executive team said the biggest benefits they’ve seen to a TEAL is students becoming an active participant instead of a passive participant in their learning, higher rates of student engagement in the classroom and amongst their peers, as well as an increase in learning outcomes.
“Schools have more tools than they realize to transition to a TEAL setting in the classroom,” they said.
“Enabling the use of products such as Vivi, reorganizing classroom setup, and getting teacher buy-in are some of the biggest recommendations. As always, start small find a school who can really model the idea and expand from there.”