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Teaching With Tech Gadgets enhance classroom learning BY ADAM STONE
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ynDel Randash sees assignments in just that firsthand the power area,” she explains. of technology in With technology nearly of parents say elementary education. As ubiquitous in most in-school computers a K-5 teacher at Roosevelt K-12 classrooms, some are helpful to their child’s education Charter Academy in educators are seeking Colorado Springs, Colo., sophisticated apps and she uses Microsoft software to enhance Word and PowerPoint their lessons. Others are SOURCE: MICROSOFT RESEARCH to help kids hone their considering how to best presentation skills. For students who are implement the powerful digital tools young struggling, she uses tools like Istation — richly learners value. animated, gamelike educational technology Of the 150 teenage girls who attended a — to customize her lessons. “If someone is recent PixelHacks conference in San Jose, having trouble with antonyms, they get an Calif., 70 percent say fluency with the tools of antonym assignment. I can look at the areas science and technology is important to their where they are having trouble and give them future careers. Parents concur: 86 percent >