District showcases technology to touring educators National
School Board Association members watched politely, nodded their
approval and asked sensible questions Monday afternoon as
Lexington Trails Middle School science teacher Wendy Karr
navigated her class through a technology assisted lesson. Using
a projected image of a real sheep's heart, Karr's students and
their guests identified its chambers. They traced the flow of
blood through one ventricle to the next using a stylus, white
board and projected online diagram. As a group, students
highlighted and read about functions of the heart's various
parts on an educational science Web site. But no amount of
technology replaced the innate need of sixth-graders to charge
the front of the room and stick their fingers in the aorta after
the important guests left. "And we do that, too," Karr laughed
as students poked and prodded at the cold, rubbery specimen. "If
they want to." The National School Board Association chose De
Soto USD 232 as one of three stops nati