Examines the use of Palm Pilots in a classroom setting.
Palm Pilots are technical tools, sometimes called ‘organizers’ because of their date, address book, and time functions. This paper presents a look at Palm Pilots as instructional tools in the classroom. The writer explores Palm Pilots and how they can improve the learning process for the students who use them. The writer also discusses the best model for such use and describes how many students are benefiting from using them in educational facilities.
“Palm Pilots are excellent personal assistants with the ability to have a significant amount of control over the individual uses that they provide. They often come with an ability to customize their use with several ways to enter data, front panel controls and brightness control. They also come with a list of available software that can do everything from word process to figure out amortization of a mortgage.”