Name & Link to Tech Tool or Tool homepage: Front Row Brief Description of Tech Tool: Front Row is an integrated adaptive curriculum, much like MobyMax, that will help K-8 students improve and retain skills. Front Row was designed to work on iPads and computers. Technical & Cost considerations: Front Row is free for teachers to use. It does come with a package for administrators to use to manage achievement in the school. Front Row works best on the Chrome browser. It does not work with Internet Explorer. Evaluation Description of Learning Activity Students will take a diagnostic pre-test for each domain. After the student has taken the pre-test the program will automatically adjust to meet their needs. Students will use Front Row during math rotations and as choice centers. Student progress monitoring is available and will inform the teacher about the time each student spends working on Front Row and the progress being made. 1. Learning Activity Types LA-Practice - practicing for uency LA-Present - (read or attend to) presentation of new content/ideas LA-Explore - exploring/investigating mathematical ideas LA-Apply - applying mathematics to problems and situations 2. What mathematics is being learned? NCTM Standards NCTM-N&0-understand numbers - understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems; NCTM-N&0-understand operations - understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another; NCTM-N&0-compute fluently - compute fluently and make reasonable estimates NCTM-Alg-patterns - understand patterns, relations, and functions; NCTM-Alg-symbols - represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols; NCTM-Alg-models - use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships; NCTM-Alg-change - analyze change in various contexts. NCTM-Geo-analyze - analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three- dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships; NCTM-Geo-specify locations - specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems; NCTM-Geo-transformations - apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations; NCTM-Geo-visualization - use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems. NCTM-Meas-understand - understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement; NCTM-Meas-apply - apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements. Prociency Strands PS-conceptual understanding PS-procedural uency PS-strategic competence PS-adaptive reasoning 3. How is the mathematics represented? Students receive mathematical questions presented with virtual manipulatives as well as recorded demonstrations to introduce a topic. Students get practice with what a computer given standard test is like. Students are also presented with several fact mastery modules that allows them to increase uency in basic skills. 4. What role does technology play? The most appealing tech advantage is the adaptive nature of the program. As students practice or test, Front Row makes adjustments to meet the learning need of the student. This program would take several hours for a teacher to manually adapt to each students need. Affordances of Technology for Supporting Learning Computing & Automating - Basic facts are reviewed and fact uency practiced. Representing Ideas & Thinking - Accessing Information - There are prerecorded lessons to introduce new topics when students are ready to move on. Communicating & Collaborating - Capturing & Creating - 5. How does the technology t or interact with the social context of learning? Front Row is an individual program. However, the teacher can pair students with one acting as a peer tutor. 6. What do teachers and learners need to know? This is a very rich program, teachers will need time to thoroughly maximize the benefits of Front Row. Teachers need to know how to read the report card provided by Front Row and student needs to know how to log onto the site and retain username and password.