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Liquid Paper
A secretary made this white liquid in her kitchen and sold the company to Gillette for about $50 million.Teachers and students may used this to correct wrong information that has been typed or written. -
Classroom White boards
White boards are invented to replacethe Chalkboard.teachers can use it in their classroom for the following reasons?
You can use them to engage every child in every single lesson.
2. Minute by minute, you’ll know exactly who’s grasping the concepts and who’s not.
3. Students love them because they’re fun. Mistakes made during guided practice can be easily brushed away.
4. Using dry erase boards will save paper and significantly reduce the stack of work you take home to grade.
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Hand-held Calculator
The predecessor of the much-loved and much-used TI-83, this calculator paved the way for the calculators used today. There were initial concerns however as teachers were slow to adopt them for fear they would undermine the learning of basic skills. -
Scantrons
Scantrons are used to automatically grade multiple choice papers.Teachers can used this tool to Calculates statistics including student grades, respondent and item statistics, mean, standard deviation, percent score, total score, Z score, and P value. -
Graphing calculator
The successor to the hand-held calculator , the graphing calculator made far more advanced math much easier as it let you plot out points, do long equations, and play ‘Snake’ as a game when you got bored in class. -
Apple MacIntosh
The Apple MacIntosh is a powerful free apps, students write, analyze data, and present their work in engaging ways. In Pages, you and your students can design stunning newsletters, book reports, flyers, and more. For data-rich projects, Numbers helps students build tables, charts, and graphs that pop off the page. -
Interactive White Board
An interactive whiteboard is a large display that connects to a computer and a projector. Teachers can organise digital flip cards to stimulate students imagination in content areas using this tool.Anything that can be done on a computer monitor, can be replicated on the interactive white board. A teacher can create engaging lessons that focus on one task such as a matching activity where students use either their fingers or a pen to match items.Enhances student engagement and motivation. -
CD-ROMs
CD-ROMs provide huge information sources, some of which CD-ROMS are the equivalent of volumes and volumes of text. Others have pictures, animated explanations or spoken commentary; they tell favourite stories, simulate flying round the world, or take you inside the human body.You may find that using CD-ROMs in a lesson can keep reluctant and disaffected learners more focused for longer periods of time. -
iClicker
There are many similar tools available now, but iClicker was one of the first to allow teachers to be able to quickly poll students and get results in real time. -
Smart Phone
Recording Lectures: The “Flipped" Classroom
Many teachers are structuring their lessons in what is being coined “Flipped Classroom”. These teachers are recording their “lectures” using video or audio and students are listening to that outside of class as the homework and in class they are completing the practice and the teacher serves as a guide, re-teaching as needed. On most cell phones with a data plan students can watch a video of a previous lesson of an appropriate clip on You Tube. -
Laptop
The ‘One Laptop Per Child’ computer was built so it was durable and cheap enough to sell or donate to developing countries. It’s an incredible machine that works well in sunlight, is waterproof, and much more.It assist in getting data quickly and easily.It allows for students to complete homework and assignments.Teachers can use this device to type records and classwork for students. -
Robotics education
Robotics can be excellent teachers and learning companions. They can give a child unfettered attention, something nearly impossible for one teacher to in front of a classroom full of students.Robots meet the need of autistic children.tool to teach experimentation, technology, critical thinking, programming, invention, teamwork, design, building … -
Biometric Classroom Monitors
“EngageSense” cameras will help teachers improve classroom learning. When the student is looking up at the teacher, the teacher score goes up. If she looks down at the computer, the computer score goes up. So we’re tracking facial expressions. If she makes a smile, it might be indicative that is enthusiastic about the topic.The software could be used to help teachers develop lesson plans or simply revise their own teaching methods. -
Interactive Desk Top
he government's ICT vision aims to: 'transform teaching, learning and help to improve outcomes through shared ideas, more exciting lessons… and to engage 'hard to reach' learners, with special needs support, more motivating ways of learning, and more choice about how and where to learn.'A single work-desk can operate as a set of individual work spaces and/or a large screen allowing students to cooperate on a task. Teachers will be able to instantly display examples of good work by students.
