TECH TOOLS FOR TEACHING

ORBISO, CHRISTIANNE ERIC TAPANG BSDEVCOM 3-A

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Nothing can replace the old- fashioned facilities but only to add them with an IN technologies to capture and keep you students’ attention. By adopting these, few of the tech tools, you will surely utilize better instructional results and yield an effective learning strategy to your students.
1. INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD. This is a large, touch- controlled screen that works with a projector and a computer. Both teachers and students can write on it using a digital ink, control computer applications by pointing, clicking and dragging through the fingers, circle relevant sections on the projected image draw geometric figures and underline. According to Lisa Mims, winner of the “Showcase Technology Teacher of the Year” for the Colonial School District in Delaware, interactive whiteboard is a combination of chalk board, movie projector and game board and she also uses it for basic word processing, interactive games and lessons and showing videos.
2. DOCUMENT CAMERA. This is sometimes called as a “digital overhead”. It is a small camera mounted on a stand accompanied by an LCD projector. You can place objects or documents under the camera and project it onto a screen to accommodate the whole class in letting them view like photographs, maps, books, magazines or even flowers, coins or insects. According to Brock Dubbels of Richard Green Central School in Minneapolis, Minnesota that through document camera, you can display hand- drawn pictures, share your student work and this has a remote control which can adjust lighting and even project what microscope sees.
3. CLICKER. This is a small, handheld device that looks like TV remote controls connected to presentation software on the classroom computer and a receiver that captures the students’ answers to multiple choice questions. This can turn passive topics of lesson to dynamic, interactive discussions that engage and entertain students. According to Eva Dietz, a fifth grade teacher at Foothills Elementary School in Buckley, Washington, this gadget does the scoring for her of the students’ answers whenever she does an examination. Moreover, she uses this for vocabulary review, science quizzes and surveys.
4. GPS RECEIVER. Educators use this to teach geography, spatial awareness, navigation and basic mapping and tracking. Global Positioning System (GPS) is a worldwide radio- navigation system that can display basic geographic information like latitude, longitude, elevation, direction and bearing. This also includes altimeters, magnetic compasses, detailed topographic and city maps and other points of interests.
5. MP3 PLAYER. This is a versatile, handheld device which can store, organize and play audio and video files. Some teachers said that MP3 player can be a useful tool in classroom. One of them is Camilla Gagliolo, an instructional technology coordinator at Arlington Public Schools in Northern Virginia who said that they used MP3 player with clip- on microphones to take live notes on a field trip or in the classroom.

These are just few of the modern technologies that are already been utilized by some teachers because it is proven as conducive for learning. These are used in supplementing training to the students and you can clarify the complicated things that is also not time consuming. With these, you will never waste your time likewise feed more information to your student in just a second.