1. Explore various digital tools from the list below, from recommendations by teachers, and from your own research for managing classrooms and monitoring student behavior. Some potential technology tools include, but are not limited to, the following:
   • TeacherKit
   • Too Noisy Pro
   • Super Duper Data Tracker
   • Teacher’s Class BEHAVIOR Free
   • Class Dojo
   • Stop-Go
   • Best Sand Timer
   • Instant Classroom
   • Smart Seat

The two digital tools I have chosen to review are Best Sand Timer and Class Dojo. As for Best Sand Timer, the application would come handy with exercises and assignments that need to be completed under time constraints. Hence, any type of presentation, piece of writing that need to be completed under certain of time could be time using the application on an iPad, iPhone or relevant device. Yet the cons of the application could be that there are not that many usages that the application could be used for other than for the use of timing in comparison to other applications that might serve multipurpose. And the other I would like to review would be Class Dojo. When I signed into the application with the school that I would be start working at starting June, there were 10 other teachers who were already signed up to the application. The application was really intriguing in that you could be awarding points for various characters (students) and these point system would be reported back to parents for reflection and assessment of student behavior in classrooms. I have found such interactive and fun application to be actually really effective in terms of providing feedback to both parents and students and there was also the option of reporting just the positive points being rewarded, as worrisome behaviors would be better reported in letters or emails or in person, rather than in point systems being reported back to parents. The application could be also effective in collecting and tracking students’ behavior and progress, and hence good way to be monitoring students’ behavioral data for a given period of time. And this application would be especially effective for students who have behavioral concerns and issues (who we have tried to address in previous assignments) where point system/reward system was being made to compensate for any behavioral changes or positive behaviors they were engaging in the classroom. These applications would be really effective in collecting, tracking and monitoring those students’ behaviors and students would also gain momentum and interest in being part of a point system where they are being rewarded points as if they were playing a game, and hence would gain more incentives and momentum to be changing their behaviors in order to gain those points within the application. (as they would be sent to the parents)

1. Comment on at least two peers’ tool reviews, preferably of peers who reviewed different tools than you. Ask questions of your peers to determine if the tools they reviewed would effectively collect, track, and monitor student behavioral data. 
2. Complete item number six, Management Technology in your Learning Environment Management Plan.

Plan for Managing the Learning Environment

6. Management Technology: Technology can improve the way you manage the learning environment by helping save instructional time, track trends in student behavior, create lines of communication with families, and even empower students to take leadership roles. Integrate some technology tools for managing the learning environment into this planning document and explain how you plan to use each. 

tManagement Technology
Technology	Rationale and Use
Class Dojo	I will use Class Dojo to reward students for their positive behaviors and also to promote certain behaviors in classroom that align with the classroom culture and norms of the classroom. For instance, students would be rewarded Teamwork points every time they would be seen helping other students out, and this would be a perfect example of how I could be promoting a classroom culture and norm using the application.
Class Dojo	Class Dojo could also be used to encourage students with behavioral problems to engage in positive behaviors using the reward system. The application would be effective in collecting, tracking, and monitoring behaviors of these students and informing positive behaviors to their parents.
Best Sand Timer	I will make use of Best Sand Timer for written assignments that need to be completed under time constraint. And I will make use of the application also for timed answers or presentations that need to be completed under time constraint. Quizzes and tests could be also completed while using Best Sand Timer.