Educational Technology Usage Within a Classroom: Educator Perspective
Classroom Screen is an interactive website that incorporates multiple applications, allowing students to engage in appealing and engaging learning experiences while utilizing the features of a decorative online whiteboard. Once you enter the website and click the button to get started with the free version of the app, multiple different applications educators can use will be listed at the bottom of the page. Some examples are: poll, randomize, sound level, traffic light, text, and clock. Each application is used to either engage students or track data. The classroom screen works best in any age classroom, but I think its interactive features might be better suited for middle and elementary school grade levels. Because of the nature of these grade levels and the fact that elementary school classes are all in one space, with multiple subjects being taught, it may be most helpful for educators to use it to organize various types of lessons.
Usefulness in a School Library
The classroom screen is helpful in libraries because it creates an engaging environment through exciting and creative means. For example, the sound level features can be used in the classroom to ask students opinions on a topic. The louder the noise the students make, the more the students want to do or vote on that specific feature. Additionally, the format of the application allows for anyone, but particularly librarians, to have an organized way to engage in the many different classes they have to teach throughout the day. For example, the librarian can manage the information so that the applications for the Classroom Screen are for other grade levels, yet all in one space.
Implications
There are no clear implications when using the website. The information presented is clear, understandable, and easy to navigate. While there is a paid version, the free version has most of the features (the only aspect of the paid version is that the user can make custom screens). While it does not have every feature in the free version, what is available for public use is more than necessary.
Accessibilty
The website itself is what’s accessible; once on the main page, it only took one click to get to the actual classroom screen. While it is necessary to create an account to save work, an account is not required to use the applications and features within the app.
Overall
The website Classroom Screen can be used for multiple grade levels. It is a diverse platform that can help educators organize and manage their tasks, engage students, and track student data. This is an important platform that benefits any educator.