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= __**Digital Camera**__ = __**Technology Resources **__ Digital Cameras are a great technology resource for the classroom. The cameras can take pictures of the classroom and students work. Both teachers and students can use digital cameras to enhance learning in the classroom. To begin using this technology the camera’s hardware needs to be installed onto a classroom computer. Then images can be uploaded from the camera to the computer for various computer uses.

__**Replacement Ideas **__

The digital camera is a great tool to support science lab results and science vocabulary. The digital camera would be a great addition to student’s labs and projects. When completing a lab such as plant growth, the students could take a picture of the plant each day to show visual changes. This will allow students to see the change over time. The digital camera can also aid in visualizing vocabulary. Students could take pictures of labs or objects that help define science concepts. You could use the student’s pictures to expand the content of a word wall or notes. The visual pictures would also help ESL students identify key terms.

__**Research **__

There are many documented benefits of using digital cameras. In the artical 'Digital Gagets', Kathy Schrock lists the many uses of digital cameras in the classroom. Some of the benefits of digital cameras include: pod casting, photojournalism, connecting art to content areas curriculum, records of lab results via a flip book, vocabulary enhancement for ESL learners, real world application scavenger hunts, and presentation of learning visual examples. Students also seem to enjoy using digital cameras because of the instant results of the picture. The students can calculate what they have learned in the form of a picture that gives an instant proof of learning that the students can then reflect upon (Schrock, 2011).



 Schrock, K. (2011). Digital gagets. Discovery Education. Retrieved from: [|http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/gadgets.ht]

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