David Curlette

Formative assessments made easy, just use a student response system such as Smart Board clickers or eInstruction Clickers .   Instantly find out how well your students are learning the concept s you are teaching.   Instead of wondering when you will have time to grade a quiz or any other type of formative assessment to gage your students understanding, create a lesson using a student response system which will instantly tell you the percentage of students that mark, choose, type, and input their answer choices.   Are there student response systems apps?   YES !!       IPad   --   Socrative        http://www.socrative.com/                                      C an you use cell phones?   YES !!      Poll Everywhe...

Technology is the world of our students. Elementary students have the  ability to read books without turning a single page, search instantly any  thought they may have and get several if not hundreds of possible responses, and  can instantly watch videos of other teachers teaching the same concepts they are  learning at school on with the click of a few keys and a mouse. Technology  has embedded itself into all of our lives and to teach without using it leads  students feeling disconnected in the learning process. I am not saying  that teachers must use technology, and I am not saying that learning can only  happen with technology. I am saying that technology enhances the learning  environment and helps teachers to design lessons that can produce instantaneous  formative assessment feedback, videos created by students or teachers, and  interactive games. Technology is a tool to enhance the learning  experience, it cannot r...

The integration of technology in the classroom will help to enhance the learning for students.  Students use technology on a daily basis with cell phone, smart phones, computers, and MP3 players (the new name for a cassette player).  The days of listening to music on a CD or tape is out dated much like caring around a boom box while listening to music, so are the days of not incorporating some type of technology into our lessons.  Technology can be simply Incorporated by using a document camera, interactive white boards, or graphing calculators.  Too many younger teachers these types of technologies are common and they are technologies that they may have grown up using.  For example, the graphing calculator was not used many until around 1990 and the Internet showed around this time too.  So how do we teaching with technology - easy.. one step at a time.   I suggest finding one type of technology you seem to link, play with it, then find anoth...