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IN MANY CLASSROOMS, movies are a special occasion--a tool that creative teachers intersperse with regular lessons to supplement the everyday curriculum and make learning fun. But at the nine school districts served by the Monroe 2-Orleans Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in Spencerport, NY, movies are becoming part of the routine, with the help of specially customized handheld computers that are bringing students engaging instructional math content right into the palms of their hands.
After identifying a need to improve math achievement among its middle school students, BOCES enlisted the help of K12 Handhelds (www.k12handhelds.com), a technology integrator in Long Beach, CA, that specializes in building multimedia applications specifically for handhelds. The company created a series of mini-movies to help teach a variety of middle school-level math concepts, such as algebra, the distributive property, exponents, etc. Each movie is about five minutes long and focuses on a specific topic, giving a basic overview and typically showing a math problem being solved, much as you would see a teacher solving a problem on a whiteboard. Broken down into different levels, the movies enable teachers to differentiate instruction and... |
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