New+Technology

The technology that I looked at using in my own classroom would be Clickers. http://news.plu.edu/node/1065 this website tells of how a school was able to buy clickers with a grant that they received. I would love to be able to receive immediate feed back when an exam is given, or even when simple tasks are given in the classroom. I know as a teacher you normally have to take papers home to grade, but this will be a great tool because you are able to put a quiz in and put the correct answer and it basically grades the answers for your. In a 5th grade classroom clickers would be an awesome tool to use, because students can easily just click the answer that they were wanting. One of the down falls about using clickers is that in a very large classroom some teachers were having issues with not all of the answers being recorded and therefore not all the students were receiving credit, or the clicker was not telling the student if their answer was not transmitted. Another issue that I would think would happen in the classroom is students always choose from multiple choice answers and sometimes students can just be really good guessers and students data is not necessarily true.