SLIS 5720 - Blog 2

For my $10,000 dollar budget I would purchase about 40 PDA’s. This would be enough (depending on the average class size) for students in 3-4 classrooms to use these as part of assignments. I would have students work either in partners or small groups with one PDA per group. These could be used for so many purposes both outside and inside the classroom. Students could download books and take turns reading aloud to one another. For social studies, math, and science lessons, students could use built in cameras to take pictures of things around the school or their community to use in presentations or explanations of different concepts. For example, students could use the camera function to find arrays or shapes around the school, bring those back to the classroom to share with others. Getting students up and moving sometimes gets them more involved and the more involved they are the more likely they are to be engaged in the learning process. Students could also check these devices out from the library to do research at home or take files home to share with their parents.