Author: Royce Hong, CEO of IPEVO
Teachers are always looking for ways to engage their students in learning environments, and technology is critical to this process. Education technology costs are soaring higher than they historically ever have, and when coupled with complex installation processes, teachers experience roadblocks when trying to implement new digital learning methods.
To address this situation, IPEVO created the Wishpool program. This pioneering program helps educators teach through the use of affordable technology. Every month, IPEVO features one of its products and awards a select group of teachers with the technology. Educators who received IPEVO’s products often share with the rest of the Wishpool community how they’re using the technology in new and innovative ways. It’s a simple concept that has resulted in the participation of more than 4,000 teachers.
For example, Debra, a teacher from a junior high school in West Point in Mississippi explained, “as a Title 1 district (over 90% of all our students in the district qualify for free / reduced lunch), funding is always an issue, so this gift from the Wishpool has been a Godsend to me.” In addition, she told IPEVO that her district would have never thought of having such a constructive tool in her classroom.
Tami, a teacher from an elementary school in Altoona in Indiana told IPEVO how the document camera she received from Wishpool is drastically helping her students with vision problems. She also said, “several students have vision limitations that make it difficult for them to look back and forth between their work and the big screen. While still projecting the image for the whole class, I can connect iPads to the iZiggi's WFfi and those students can see the same thing much closer to their eyes.”
Since launching the Wishpool program, IPEVO continues to support thousands of educators with free technology for their classrooms and has also accumulated thousands of real-world stories and use cases. Wishpool not only supports teachers with the technology needs for their classrooms, it also helps IPEVO to better design products based on the direct feedback from real classrooms.
For example, Debra, a teacher from a junior high school in West Point in Mississippi explained, “as a Title 1 district (over 90% of all our students in the district qualify for free / reduced lunch), funding is always an issue, so this gift from the Wishpool has been a Godsend to me.” In addition, she told IPEVO that her district would have never thought of having such a constructive tool in her classroom.
Tami, a teacher from an elementary school in Altoona in Indiana told IPEVO how the document camera she received from Wishpool is drastically helping her students with vision problems. She also said, “several students have vision limitations that make it difficult for them to look back and forth between their work and the big screen. While still projecting the image for the whole class, I can connect iPads to the iZiggi's WFfi and those students can see the same thing much closer to their eyes.”
Since launching the Wishpool program, IPEVO continues to support thousands of educators with free technology for their classrooms and has also accumulated thousands of real-world stories and use cases. Wishpool not only supports teachers with the technology needs for their classrooms, it also helps IPEVO to better design products based on the direct feedback from real classrooms.
