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American School of Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra www.asbindia.org
Superintendent: Craig Johnson Craig Johnson returned to India, where he spent 12 years of his childhood, after living in Brazil for 15 years. While he was in Brazil, he served as a High School Principal and Headmaster of two different schools. A dedicated educationist, Johnson endeavours to stay engaged with his students by coaching soccer, and trying to teach or co-teach in an English class as often as possible. A regular presenter and workshop facilitator on a variety of Leadership and School Improvement topics, Johnson has also published a novel, Wave Watcher. His second novel is expected to arrive soon.
Varied experiences for students We firmly believe that Information Technology is eminently capable of promoting active learning. It allows our teachers to share information efficiently and conduct their teaching with
proficiency. It also enables the administrators to develop a seamless system of management, one that facilitates timely communications between students, teachers, administrators and parents. Even though American School of Bombay is designed in a rather USA style, the settings are primarily Indian. The community of teachers and students are from 40 countries and this enables our students to have rich and varied experiences
Efficiency through digital tools Currently the school has deployed technologies like: Google Apps, Windows Live@Edu, Adobe Connect, Destiny, Dropbox, Discovery and Safari Video Streaming. We are conducting research on games based learning, social technologies and few other ideas. Some of these technologies can be implemented in times to come. The school also operates two vibrant blogs: http://blogs.asbindia.org/findings, http://blogs. asbindia.org/findings/taskforce-update. The American School of Bombay follows a 1:1 system when it comes to allocation of devices. Every student has their own laptop or device. Lot of interesting application based learning and management services have now moved to the Web or the Cloud space. We make use of some of them.
Vision Statement We seek to empower our students with skills, courage, optimism and integrity so that they can pursue their dreams and enhance the lives of others 34
digitalLEARNING
february / 2012 www.digitallearning.in