Being apart of the EdTech Cohort, I hosted my own educational technology session featuring the livescribe smartpen and its varying capabilities in an educational setting to fellow teacher candidates, practicing teachers, school administrators and university faculty members.
I was able to showcase my knowledge of how to use the livescribe smartpen to create innovative and engaging learning experiences for teachers to implement within their own classrooms.
Throughout my showcase, I demonstrated the smartpens technological capacity for differentiating instruction combining all four modes of communication: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
I demonstrated the smartpens capacity to record and digitize handwriting automatically syncing ink and audio, being an assistive technology for students with physical and hearing impairments, use for the visually impaired, augmentative communication, music composition, paper calculator use, translation for English language learners, to articulation practice for the speech impaired among its many other uses.
Not merely a showcase, but a collaborative event that provided an opportunity for all interested parties to not only discuss how smartpen technology is currently being used in the classroom, but provided hands on usage whilst learning how to fully capitalize the potential of this innovation to take teaching with technology to the next level.
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