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Recently I was touring
a regional middle school (Preston Middle School, Poudre School District in
Colorado) and had quite a nice surprise as I passed by an actively engaged math
classroom. The teacher was using a document camera to review a math problem.
But this teacher was doing something right. Something I don’t see often in classrooms using document
cameras. Something we need to see more of. Something quite
simple, yet quite effective. Something that works.
He was using Color on his document camera to
clarify the concept, to make the solution process more attention getting, more
understandable. Color has been used to help students
master difficult concepts in math dating back to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks.
Why is it that some teachers use document cameras in the least effective
fashion? In black and white? Start using Color with your document camera. Color works.
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