MKA Showcased in New Evernote Video
Middle School Theatre Arts students discussing the differences between Shaw and Brecht's interpretations of Joan of Arc while maintaining a shared notebook that tags themes and records that discussion.
Spanish high school students clipping web images associated with new vocabulary words into a shared Spanish dictionary.
8th grade scientists magnifying and photographing the development of the milkweed beetle and importing those photographs directly into their science notebooks.
11th grade history students discovering that, rather than having to bookmark sources for their Independent History Research paper, they can highlight and clip their research, together with citations, directly into a research notebook.
These are just some examples of how MKA's 1:1 Laptop Learning Program is harnessing the power of the Evernote application to enhance teaching and learning. For students, the application, now used by over 3 million users worldwide, is transforming the way they organize their work, and for some, their lives.
MKA’s relationship with Evernote began in June 2009, when the application was introduced to faculty at the school’s annual four-day Technology Institute, designed help teachers explore effective ways to use technology tools to support teaching and learning. The faculty experimented with Evernote and quickly saw the potential it held for learning within the classroom. In Spring 2010, members of MKA’s Technology Department met with representatives from Evernote to discuss both how the application could serve the school and how input from the school could help Evernote develop their product further. This on-going relationship led to the installation of Evernote on every MKA student and teacher laptop, and it is now one of the most widely used applications in the school.
Intrigued to see their product in action at what is now their largest school account, Evernote's Marketing Director Andrew Sinkov, together with a videographer came to MKA to film classrooms using Evernote and interview Tech and Ed Tech administrators and representatives from the Middle and Upper School Student Laptop Leadership group. Click here to watch the result.