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PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)
What is it?
A Personal Digital Assistant is a handheld device that combines computing, internet features as well as networking features. Personal Digital Assistants are able to function as cell phones, fax machines, a web browser, and a personal organizer. Most Personal Digital Assistants use a stylus, or pen for input instead of a keyboard like most computers. Some Personal Digital Assistants can react to voice input by using voice recognition. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PDA.html
How to use it?
Personal Digital Assistants use a stylus, or pen to operate. If you would like to search your Personal Digital Assistant to find anything, there is a “find” icon you tap with your pen; you then type on the mini keyboard what you would like to find and the device will search for your topic and find it for you. You are also able to store thousands and thousands of things on your Personal Digital Assistant. Anytime you want to store anything, you simply type what you want to store into the keyboard and it categorizes and saves it for you. For example, if you wanted to find out what time a birthday party was on Saturday, you would look under the calendar icon or whatever icon you stored it under, and there would have the information you were looking for. Most people use Personal Digital Assistants to store information so they don’t forget about appointments, birthdays, dinner meetings, etc., but they are now starting to be used in schools as well. They are a growing part of the technology process. If you would like to find out how to find various parts of your Personal Digital Assistant, you can visit http://www.ehow.com and type in “How to Use Personal Digital Assistants and they will list many aspects of the device you can find out how to use. http://www.ehow.com/how_7426_find-information-palm.html
Why use it?
Teachers are starting to use Personal Digital Assistants for many reasons. One reason is that it takes less technology support to use them. Personal Digital Assistants are also more affordable to use within classroom technology budgets and personal teacher budgets as well. Teachers are also starting to use Personal Digital Assistants for the growing range of creative tools they offer. For example, it is possible to get a portable keyboard which would allow teachers to type information in on them and edit any documents they may have for their class. The teacher can also get access to the internet and email through Personal Digital Assistants.
Using Personal Digital Assistants in the classroom also provide students with a one to one technology ratio. Going to the computer lab gives students limited access, where Personal Digital Assistants are small and light enough to carry around everywhere. These devices are being used in various subject areas as well. Students are using these to track their nutritional intake and physical activity to see if they are meeting their fitness goals. In Science, students are using Personal Digital Assistants to graph data for experiments. English students are using them to record journals. Personal Digital Assistants are being used more and more now in schools and they are very useful and convenient for students as well as teachers.
http://www.emtech.net/tech083.shtml
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/PDAs_Part1.htm
How are teachers using it?
With the use and capabilities of Personal Digital Assistants in the classroom, teachers are helping students prepare for possible uses of this mobile computing when they graduate. Personal Digital Assistants have also allowed students to take notes digitally, which has made student improvement and productivity in the classroom increase. Teachers are also using the Personal Digital Assistants to grade student work. When teachers are conducting observations of their students, they are able to type the observations and store them in the device.
By using the Personal Digital Assistant, teachers are actually able to grade student work and/or documents in the car, at a sporting event, or anywhere! To make this possible, teachers are having the students give them a disk with their work on it, or for students in the upper elementary grades or middle school, teachers are having the students attach the assignment to them via email. With this information in their possession now, teachers then download the student work on their Personal Digital Assistants to be able to grade the student work wherever they may be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistants
http://www.emtech.net/PDAs_Part1.htm
Resources:
1) Brown, M.D (2001 Education World). Handhelds in the Classroom. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.education-world.com Web site: http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech083.shtml
2) (2006). PDA. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.webodia.com Web site: http://www.webodia.com/TERM/P/PDA.html
3) (1999-2006). How to find information on a palm device. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.ehow.com Web site: http://www.ehow.com/how_7426_find-information-palm.html
4) Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs): Always a productivity tool but now an instructional tool for classroom teachers. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.emtech.net Web site: http://www.emtech.net/PDAs_Part1.htm
5) 2006 English Wikipedia). Personal Digital Assistant. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.en.wikipedia.org Web site: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/personal_digital_assistants
PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)
What is it?
A Personal Digital Assistant is a handheld device that combines computing, internet features as well as networking features. Personal Digital Assistants are able to function as cell phones, fax machines, a web browser, and a personal organizer. Most Personal Digital Assistants use a stylus, or pen for input instead of a keyboard like most computers. Some Personal Digital Assistants can react to voice input by using voice recognition. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PDA.html
How to use it? Personal Digital Assistants use a stylus, or pen to operate. If you would like to search your Personal Digital Assistant to find anything, there is a “find” icon you tap with your pen; you then type on the mini keyboard what you would like to find and the device will search for your topic and find it for you. You are also able to store thousands and thousands of things on your Personal Digital Assistant. Anytime you want to store anything, you simply type what you want to store into the keyboard and it categorizes and saves it for you. For example, if you wanted to find out what time a birthday party was on Saturday, you would look under the calendar icon or whatever icon you stored it under, and there would have the information you were looking for. Most people use Personal Digital Assistants to store information so they don’t forget about appointments, birthdays, dinner meetings, etc., but they are now starting to be used in schools as well. They are a growing part of the technology process. If you would like to find out how to find various parts of your Personal Digital Assistant, you can visit http://www.ehow.com and type in “How to Use Personal Digital Assistants and they will list many aspects of the device you can find out how to use. http://www.ehow.com/how_7426_find-information-palm.html
Why use it?
Teachers are starting to use Personal Digital Assistants for many reasons. One reason is that it takes less technology support to use them. Personal Digital Assistants are also more affordable to use within classroom technology budgets and personal teacher budgets as well. Teachers are also starting to use Personal Digital Assistants for the growing range of creative tools they offer. For example, it is possible to get a portable keyboard which would allow teachers to type information in on them and edit any documents they may have for their class. The teacher can also get access to the internet and email through Personal Digital Assistants.
Using Personal Digital Assistants in the classroom also provide students with a one to one technology ratio. Going to the computer lab gives students limited access, where Personal Digital Assistants are small and light enough to carry around everywhere. These devices are being used in various subject areas as well. Students are using these to track their nutritional intake and physical activity to see if they are meeting their fitness goals. In Science, students are using Personal Digital Assistants to graph data for experiments. English students are using them to record journals. Personal Digital Assistants are being used more and more now in schools and they are very useful and convenient for students as well as teachers.
http://www.emtech.net/tech083.shtml
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/PDAs_Part1.htm
How are teachers using it?
With the use and capabilities of Personal Digital Assistants in the classroom, teachers are helping students prepare for possible uses of this mobile computing when they graduate. Personal Digital Assistants have also allowed students to take notes digitally, which has made student improvement and productivity in the classroom increase. Teachers are also using the Personal Digital Assistants to grade student work. When teachers are conducting observations of their students, they are able to type the observations and store them in the device.
By using the Personal Digital Assistant, teachers are actually able to grade student work and/or documents in the car, at a sporting event, or anywhere! To make this possible, teachers are having the students give them a disk with their work on it, or for students in the upper elementary grades or middle school, teachers are having the students attach the assignment to them via email. With this information in their possession now, teachers then download the student work on their Personal Digital Assistants to be able to grade the student work wherever they may be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistants
http://www.emtech.net/PDAs_Part1.htm
Resources:
1) Brown, M.D (2001 Education World). Handhelds in the Classroom. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.education-world.com Web site: http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech083.shtml
2) (2006). PDA. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.webodia.com Web site: http://www.webodia.com/TERM/P/PDA.html
3) (1999-2006). How to find information on a palm device. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.ehow.com Web site: http://www.ehow.com/how_7426_find-information-palm.html
4) Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs): Always a productivity tool but now an instructional tool for classroom teachers. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.emtech.net Web site: http://www.emtech.net/PDAs_Part1.htm
5) 2006 English Wikipedia). Personal Digital Assistant. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from www.en.wikipedia.org Web site: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/personal_digital_assistants
