Tech Tools for the Classroom

What is available?

Lee PageKeiser University EDU511 – Integrative Educational Technology Dr. Richard Dietzel23 February 2014

Hardware

Here are some of the latest hardware technologies available for the classroom:

Smart Phones – everyone has smart phones these days. They be used for the classroom to promote greater participation.

Laptops – Personal computers can be used to replace textbooks, provides searches, hold homework and much more.

Tablets – These devices have almost the same computing power as laptops these days and are smaller, more portable, and easy to use.

Electronic Blackboards – These projected blackboards can react to actions on the projected board.

Video teleconferencing – The screens and communication hardware allow real time communications across the building or across the world.

Software

There are many software applications now available such as :BlackboardCompliance WireHaparaClass DojoSocrative Student

Why use?

We owe it to our students to provide them with the best we have to offer and to prepare them for life beyond school. Exposing and using the best technologies accomplishes both. Let’s teach smarter