What do I think about using visual thinking softwarein the classroom? What about the smartboard? What will they do for the students and for me?

Visual thinking software is vital for students of today's world, it allows the students to critically analyze situations and concepts. The smartboard is a great invention. It promotes hands on interaction in the classroom, which studies have found to be very beneficial for studens' grades and tests. These software aplications help comprehensibility by revealing patterns and relationships, in turn helps the students as well as the teachers. The applications help teachers by getting the students involved while creating an asynchronous and synchronous environments. This will help students with learning to manage, sort and prioritize informationas well as integrate new ideas into their already existing knowledge. The benefits of these applications will not only help students with their school work, but will also help prepare them for the workforce.