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Classroom Environment
The Components
- Creating an Environment of Respect and Rapport
- Establishing a Culture for Learning
- Managing Classroom Procedures
- Managing Student Behavior
- Organizing Physical Space
The Classes
Probeware
Secondary Science
teachers can learn how to use data-collecting probeware to
support student learning in lab explorations. Probeware is
a sensor, or probe, that sends data through a cable to an
interface device that collects data that is
connected to a computer where the data can be analyzed. This
configuration allows for real-time data collection during
laboratory experiments. Students are able to observe,
predict, and test hypotheses while the lab experiment is in
progress providing the opportunity to exercise higher level
thinking skills during the experiment, as opposed to the
traditional classroom model that requires manually
collecting data and later preparing lab reports hours or
days after the experiment.
ACTIVBoards
ACTIVBoards
are interactive digital whiteboards. Along with the
ACTIVStudio software, teachers and students can create,
manage, store, and share digital media. Using the
ACTIVPen, notes can be written and saved, documents and
web pages can be annotated, and media can be
manipulated.
Document Cameras
The use of document cameras in the classroom has
the potential to change the way teachers present lessons and
assess student work. With the ability to display 3D
objects, calculators, handwritten papers, printed text,
published documents, and x-rays, teachers will be able to
visually enhance lessons and units. Teachers will learn how
to operate and connect a document camera to an LCD projector
along with strategies to effectively integrate a document
camera into their daily instruction.
Digital Video Cameras
Digital video
cameras help create a whole new level of recording
events and producing movies. Combined with video editing
software teachers can provide a year-end video for
students showing a compilation of the year, take
students on vicarious field trips. Students can organize
and present research and other projects, as well as
collect information in a video format. Groups have used
video as a way of taking their work and sharing it with
the community outside of the school.
Digital Still Cameras
Digital still
cameras allow teachers and students to capture events
and activities in a digital format that can be edited
and archived. Teachers often use digital cameras as a
documentation and communication tool. Students can
integrate digital pictures into projects, presentations,
and language arts assignments.
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