PDA's can be used effectively in classrooms to enhance learning. They offer portability, are cost-effective, and versatile. Special education programs have approved their use. PDA's can be used in elementary, middle, and high school levels. They have features for subjects like science, math, language arts, and social studies. For example, science programs allow students to graph data from experiments on topics like temperature and humidity. Overall, PDA's give students more access to educational tools and can improve motivation and grades.

1. Briefcase to Backpack: Children of Technology By. Sararose Cupo & Natalie Ray

2. Why Use PDA’s in the Classroom? Portability Cost Versatility * Special Programs exist in schools nationwide that have educationally approved the use of PDA’s in the classroom.

3. Where Can PDA’s be Used? Elementary Middle School High School

4. We will discover the features needed to have an educationally formatted PDA, the subjects touched by PDA’s, the difference in education with a PDA, and a description of an experiment that is currently taking place…

5. Science ImagiLabKit By ImagiWorks ImagiLab Lessons “ Instantly graph data during lab experiments” Garden Investigations Temperature, Ph, Humidity Weather Relative Humidity, Sunlight Water Making Popsicles, Stream Studies, Mixing liquids

6. Science Additional Programs Planetarium- This is an application for Palm. It plots star charts, calculates the position of the sun, the moon, the planets, stars, hundreds of sky objects, comets and asteroids. This also offers many other useful features. Moon Phase- This application will graphically display The phase of the moon for any day.

7. Math By. Imagimath “ This allows students to investigate mathematical ideas more rapidly and more thoroughly”

8. Language Arts By. Inspiration Inspiration for PDA’s give students and educators more access to the premier visual learning tool that helps them achieve clearer thinking, better writing and improved performance across the curriculum.

9. “ E-books” This program has many books, poetry, plays, and more genres of literature available. It’s like a text book on the go!

10. Social Studies By. AvantGo Social Studies is no longer a dull class, no more reading your textbook for the entire period! With AvantGo, you can keep students up to date on current events with easy access to the news. **Besides AvantGo there is also Jtutor that allows students to take and make their own quizzes to test their knowledge. Also, there is a GPS program that is beneficial to the social studies department.

11. These teachers are seeing a dramatic difference in student motivation and grades.”

12. These Programs allow the student to have these at their fingertips, virtually bringing school every where they go!