Personal Digital Assistants are sometimes called handheld computers. Students can use them in the classroom to graph data, work math problems, as well as keep multiple files at hand full of information that might be useful to the student.
We use online survey tools to assess knowledge and gather data. The online survey tools help in the classroom by showing teachers if their students retained the information they taught them. Teachers can test their teaching methods by using these surveys. By reading the results a teacher can tell if students responded well or poorly to a certain lesson or method. I think that two good rules for writing good surveys are, number one, make the questions clear. In making sure that the question is clear there is little room for a student to not understand a question which could potentially mess up the results. The second rule in making good surveys in my opinion is to make sure that the questions cover exactly the material you want tested and only that information. If there are more than one topic in a survey and the results showed that students had trouble, you would not know with which topic they had trouble with.
In conclusion I think that online surveys tools are very helpful to the teacher and have many uses. I also believe that we will be seeing more and more schools using Personal Digital Assistants in the classroom, which will help the students with assignments and classwork.
I enjoyed reading your post. I agree with your methods of creating a good survey. I also feel that it is important to cover only the topic that is necessary and not jump off track. I agree with you on your opinion of seeing more PDAs in the classroom in the future.
ReplyDeleteI agree that when creating an online survey it is necessary to make the questions clear and to the point because that leaves room for less error and less confusion from the students.
ReplyDeleteBritanie Talley