Through doing this technology enhanced science activity, I gained a lot of knowledge about various ideas for using technology in an elementary school classroom. Through Kidsperation, a variety of templates can be created to help students categorize, classify, and sort data according to different properties. Stellarium can help students observe things such as the night sky, the phases of the moon, the planets, or the rotation of the earth in a simple and quick manner. The digital microscopes and probes can also be very useful technological tools to implement into science instruction in the classroom. With the microscopes, the students can collect and observe different organisms. The probes will help students learn to analyze data about temperature and so forth as it is being graphed and recognize how what they do affects the data being graphed on the computer. These and other technological tools can greatly enhance learning in the classroom when effectively implemented into instruction.
I watched and made a text comment using VoiceThread on the following demos: 1. Natalee Biggs 2. Lauren MacDonald 3. Audrey Sanders
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