Sunday, September 23, 2007

TI-navigator

One of the coolest things i came across while looking up educational technology was the TI-navigator. I always had trouble in math but when the teachers brought of the TI calculators i thought it was so much fun working on graphs and equations with the calculator. When the TI calculator came out i thought it was one of neatest inventions, everyone enjoyed playing with them. I am really glad to see that there is a device that can now connect them all together. I wish i had that in school when i was in highschool, the TI calculators were always hard to figure out but now the teacher can help students with an overhead display. I also like how you can poll the entire class and since the calculators are connected you can show the results. In class we always had to individually ask people the question we were using in our poll then write down the results and then make our graph. Now it is so simple to poll an entire class of students without all the work. This allows for less class time taking a poll and more time to work on areas of math in which students are struggling. This is probably one of my favorite devices in educational technology that i have heard of.

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