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    Technology based rubrics are rubrics that sets boundaries or basis for students to follow on a certain assignment or task. With a rubric students know their guidelines before starting and can follow along to make sure they are on the right path. I believe that if you can show students the expectations you will have a much better outcome with the end results.
    Clicker assessment tools are small wireless keypads with alphanumeric keypads that are linked to a computer. (Duncan, 2005; Hafner, 2004). Students can use these during classroom discussions to respond to questions. I like this technology because it allows students to be interactive with the discussion by other ways other than sitting and raising their hands and responding. A great example of using this in  a classroom is to allow every student to respond to a question then giving the correct answers. This can give the teacher feedback on where she may need to reteach or clarify what the students believe to be true.
     Inspiration and kidspiration software is a software that can be purchased to help students know and learn new concepts.  Kidspiration can be used for reading, writing, and math skills. I think this could be used in the classroom during any extra learning time that students can get on and practice skills that the teacher thinks they may need a little extra help with. These software's give students games as well as offer lesson plans for teachers to incorporate into their teaching time.

References:
Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R., Crismond, D. (2008) Meaningful learning with technology.

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       Digital storytelling is a way for students to tell a story online independently or with partners. This is a great way of retelling a story or creating their own story. I think this is a wonderful way of bringing technology into a classroom.
       Mathematics is a very important part of education now and using technology can be a very helpful key to students that struggle with visualizing math. One way that our book states that you can integrate technology into math is visualizing geography with geographic information systems. GIS is a system that stores, retrieves, displays, analysis and manipulates geographic data. This system allows students to construct maps, create charts and tables to summarize data they find. Another way to integrate technology with math is using graphing calculators . Students that use these calculators can make connections between what is happening mathematically to a picture of a graph or formula. Students can also use video cameras or digital cameras to make math more real. You are able to put real life into mathematical situations.
       I believe that a person can learn from watching  television, however, I think there needs to be alternate learning methods as well. I know with my daughter she can pick up many great ideas from the television (as well as bad ones). But I think that students learn from different learning styles and so learning from television alone may work for some but not for all.