Comments on: Burien’s Gregory Heights School Shows Off “21st Century Classroom” http://www.b-townblog.com/2010/04/29/buriens-gregory-heights-school-shows-off-21st-century-classroom/ Daily Burien News, Events, Entertainment, Music, Videos & More Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:54:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://www.b-townblog.com/2010/04/29/buriens-gregory-heights-school-shows-off-21st-century-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-22683 Mike Mon, 10 May 2010 21:00:05 +0000 http://www.b-townblog.com/?p=17817#comment-22683 I use this in my classroom along with an interactive whiteboard. These devices are the greatest educational tool I have ever used! I use these for instructing new content, review, and assessments. The real key is that the remote gives instant individual feedback to the student, and that is very motivating. They do not need 2-3 days for the teacher to grade the test and get it back. Kids can take paper and pencil tests with these. I can even have the kids take multiplicaton timed tests as a game. Hopefully, these devices will help raise my students scores on the MSP. To use these, you need a person who is technologically savvy and dedicated to using them. Also, the content to use these is not just ready to go. You have to create most of it from scratch and that has taken me hundreds of hours this year. I use this in my classroom along with an interactive whiteboard.
These devices are the greatest educational tool I have ever used! I use these for instructing new content, review, and assessments. The real key is that the remote gives instant individual feedback to the student, and that is very motivating. They do not need 2-3 days for the teacher to grade the test and get it back.
Kids can take paper and pencil tests with these. I can even have the kids take multiplicaton timed tests as a game. Hopefully, these devices will help raise my students scores on the MSP.
To use these, you need a person who is technologically savvy and dedicated to using them. Also, the content to use these is not just ready to go. You have to create most of it from scratch and that has taken me hundreds of hours this year.

]]> By: Steve Gilbert http://www.b-townblog.com/2010/04/29/buriens-gregory-heights-school-shows-off-21st-century-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-22469 Steve Gilbert Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:01:18 +0000 http://www.b-townblog.com/?p=17817#comment-22469 This is a great application of technology in the classroom. Rapid feedback from the students provides a valuable tool for educators in discovering how well students are understanding the lessons. The feedback allows for not only higher efficiency in the classroom, but increased comprehension of the subject (a teacher can zero in on the particularly challenging concepts as indicated by the feedback) and the greater ability of educators to decipher where a student may be having particular challenges. This is a great application of technology in the classroom. Rapid feedback from the students provides a valuable tool for educators in discovering how well students are understanding the lessons.

The feedback allows for not only higher efficiency in the classroom, but increased comprehension of the subject (a teacher can zero in on the particularly challenging concepts as indicated by the feedback) and the greater ability of educators to decipher where a student may be having particular challenges.

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