Osmo For Schools Celebrates Five Years and Upgrades to Plastic Manipulatives in School Bundles for Classroom Hygiene & Safety
Osmo Projector App for Teachers Reaches 100,000 Downloads
Osmo for Schools, a division of Tangible Play, Inc., focuses on building in-classroom usage of Osmos award-winning academic systems. Osmo is utilized in more than 30,000 schools in North America.
In January 2021, Osmo for Schools updated all nine school bundles to include plastic pieces across the board, replacing ones made of cardboard. This makes it much easier for schools to decontaminate and clean Osmos manipulatives, which are used in combination with Osmos innovation inside class, and permits schools to maintain the highest requirements of classroom health. Osmo for Schools plastic pieces are long-lasting, easy to sanitize when using EPA-registered disinfectant spray, and dishwasher-safe..
All Learning System Bundles Upgraded To Plastic Manipulatives for Effective Sanitization.
Osmo for Schools, the educational division of Tangible Play that promotes in-classroom usage of Osmos acclaimed educational systems, commemorates its fifth anniversary March 30, 2021 and highlights current achievements. These include upgrading to plastic pieces in all its school packages to keep the greatest requirements of class hygiene, along with reaching 100,000 downloads of the Osmo Projector App planned for instructors, which assisted grow Osmos neighborhood of active users..
Carol Argumaniz, Assistant Principal at Lillie Jackson Early Childhood Center in Lewisville, Texas, discusses the success her teachers are having with virtual knowing, thanks to Osmo Projector App. “It permits instructors to provide the exact same quality lesson through virtual knowing, as they would deliver through in-person learning at school,” states Argumaniz. “And it allows them to perform little group lessons with very high quality photos so trainees feel like they are really next to the instructor.”.
” Osmo for Schools started thanks to all the incredibly passionate teachers throughout the U.S. and Canada who embraced Osmo as an academic gadget for class settings, promoting its use, so that districts and schools began to purchase it,” discusses Jan Richards, head of education sales and marketing at Osmo for Schools. “In early 2016, Osmo started our division by forming a sales group, a conference method, plus a Classroom Kit for schools, which truly removed. Its come a long way because!” The department now has 15 sales and seeking advice from executives who work under Richards, uses 9 various knowing system bundles, and deals with thousands of school districts.
Projector App Reaches 100,000 Downloads.
Due to the abrupt transition to virtual learning one year back, Osmo responded to instructors cries for a more reliable methods of engaging students in a virtual class, by offering Projector App. The app started as a complimentary download to all thanks to Osmo Cares, the charitable arm of Osmo. Launched in late March, the app is now being utilized by instructors of all levels (pre-K to university) across the country to make the virtual knowing environment more enjoyable, appealing, and similar to a real class; it just recently reached 100,000 downloads, and helped to grow Osmos community of active users..
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These bundles including all-plastic pieces are exclusive to Osmo for Schools, and teachers who previously bought bundles with cardboard manipulatives can now buy the plastic piece sets independently, with a 25-percent discount rate.
” Its wonderful that the complimentary download of Projector App presented numerous teachers to Osmo for the very first time, who were formerly unaware of the great range of educational items we provide,” states Richards..
” The whole world holds a mirror to each schools hygiene standard and approaches of cleaning and disinfection– this is especially real in classrooms where numerous hands are touching different products every day,” says Richards. “Our plastic pieces are an exceptional academic tool, now made more secure for classrooms, and just teachers have access to them. Teachers are so fired up to have all-plastic pieces in their sets!”.
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” Osmo for Schools started thanks to all the exceptionally passionate teachers across the U.S. and Canada who embraced Osmo as an instructional gadget for class settings, promoting its usage, so that districts and schools started to buy it,” describes Jan Richards, head of education sales and marketing at Osmo for Schools.” In all my years mentor, Ive constantly sanitized my teaching tools as a STEAM teacher; from robots, to iPads and now my Osmo for Schools sets– this is a life saver for my students and myself,” states Frances Amato Dominguez, Ed Tech Model and STEAM Teacher in New York. Due to the unexpected shift to virtual finding out one year earlier, Osmo reacted to instructors sobs for a more reliable ways of engaging trainees in a virtual class, by offering Projector App. The app started as a free download to all thanks to Osmo Cares, the charitable arm of Osmo. Osmo for Schools, a division of Tangible Play, Inc., focuses on building in-classroom use of Osmos acclaimed instructional systems.
Projector App uses an effective reflective AI innovation that permits the electronic camera to “see” the desktop in front of the screen and task a teachers real life text, notes and drawings onto the screen, even 3-D designs they hold in their hand, while working with Zoom and other video conferencing technologies (video). Projector App is the 2020 recipient of EdTech Breakthrough Awards “eLearning Innovation of the Year.”.
” In all my years teaching, Ive always sterilized my mentor tools as a STEAM instructor; from robotics, to iPads and now my Osmo for Schools kits– this is a life saver for my trainees and myself,” states Frances Amato Dominguez, Ed Tech Model and STEAM Teacher in New York. Adds South Carolina kindergarten instructor Keri Lewis, “I enjoy how durable these pieces are. Being plastic, they are able to be cleaned up thoroughly in between uses without worry of damaging the pieces.”.
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