DyKnow

DyKnow is a brand of classroom management and interactive educational software that we have gotten to experience in Technology of Instruction. It can be used in a classroom where each student has a computer and is connected to a network. It saves a lot of effort on the part of students because the teacher can send slides to each participant's computer. The students can then take notes on those slides and save them for later. This can help focus their attention on the lesson. The students can send information to the teacher as well. There is a continuous poll for understanding and teachers may create polls or ask open-ended questions on the slide to gather information from the class. One particularly interesting feature is the teacher's ability to freeze all the computers in the classroom and view what is on the screen of each student. This obviously improves attention and accountability.

DyKnow is good for computer classes, but I don't think I would ever use it in math simply because of the lack of computers in the classroom. However, if all my students in a class had networked computers, I might try it. It would be useful for giving examples for the students to work on and assessing their comprehension. If for nothing else, I would use it to see how well the students understood the lesson through the polling feature.