1+Achievement

1. How does this request impact student achievement?
 * **Increase student engagement**- evidence of this has already occurred within classrooms using the promethean board. With the activotes, all students can participate in giving feedback. The visuals from projected images, the audio and video from the internet, which can be shared through the projector increases student interest. Being able to interact with content by touching the promethean board , and experience the text, the images, the audio, video from the internet opens new worlds to students. This generation grew up in a digital world and they connect to digital presentations.
 * **Provide feedback** - Activotes allows teachers to gauge student understanding during the lesson, as well as after the lesson. Feedback is to teachers and to students is immediate. Using the applets or learning games from the internet, students can get immediate feedback to their responses. Having the promethean board and the projector enables all students to participate in receiving feedback.
 * **Meet multiple learning styles** - In order to be successful in helping students learn, we must teach to their learning styles. Using the projector or document camera allows teachers to display visual images. Animated objects can explain meaning. Highlighting text with colors within a sentence can identify word classes. Including audio and videos enhances and shelters learning new concepts. The promethean board allows students to kinesthetically interact with the content, by manipulating digital objects. For example, students can move objects into Venn diagrams, move blocks into groups of tens, interact with the flash objects--like moving the hands of a clock. Students can fly to different parts of the world with Google Earth and measure the distance of one city to another. The document camera allows students to all see the parts of a live insect--something that use to require students to take turns coming up
 * **Increase opportunities for differentiated instruction** - Students learn at different paces. Activotes enable teachers to identify where students are in their learning progress, so that they can make differentiation strategies. With the use of the promethean board, teachers can address multiple learning styles to differentiate how the lesson is presented.
 * **Improve student ownership of learning** - Using digital cameras, students can capture images to create presentations to demonstrate authentic learning, to collect data, or to analyze data. By being able to create their own strategy of learning digitally, students can take ownership of learning.