Technology Tools
1. ActiveInspire/Promethian
2. Smartboard
3. Quizlet
1. Promethean and SMART provides an unlimited amount of resources for every subject. They require the students to be actively involved and cognitively involved. The programs are derived from Common Core material or you may change it to correlate with your class material. The one challenge with the programs is the students being previously exposed to the activity. Secondly, the content level being too high or low on the activity. Lastly, the students not being engaged or the material included in the activity inaccurate.
2. SmartBoards allow the students to get actively involved. Depending on the activity, they could come up and answer the questions accordingly. The board allows for you to open all types of manipulatives. It also allows the student to choose their pen color freely. This board has several pros but one major con, if the board crashes you have ultimately lost any program saved on it. It's hard to backup/retain any information saved on the board. If students are skipped over during an activity that requires a smartboard, they may become frustrated or intolerable. The students ho are not participating may become loud and disruptive and/or off task.
3.Quizlet has answers to questions that you may ask during the activity. It also has questions you could include into your lesson. The questions on this program generally range from lower to higher order thinking skills. The only con is students getting clever and looking the answers up themselves.
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