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Overview
The TI-Navigator™ classroom learning system from Texas Instruments can
help you:
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Assess student understanding.
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Verify that students are on task.
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Use classroom results to engage students.
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Get immediate feedback from your students to promote student
achievement.
The system is composed of two parts, hardware and software. The
hardware creates a wireless communications network so that your
computer can communicate with your students’ TI graphing calculators.
The software contains a number of tools to enhance your classroom,
including:
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Activity Center.
Lets you run interactive activities with your classes
involving lists, graphs, points, and equations.
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Quick Poll.
Lets you send polls to your students, receive the
students’ responses to the polls, and review the poll results with your
students.
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Screen Capture.
Lets you capture your students’ calculator screens.
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Class Analysis.
Lets you create, distribute, and analyze educational
content.
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LearningCheck™ Creator
. Lets you create quizzes and self-
assessment opportunities.
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App and OS Transfer.
Lets you transfer TI Graphing Calculator
Operating System (OS) and Applications (Apps) to students’
calculators.
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Transfer tools.
Multiple tools that let you send, collect, and delete
data files on your students’ calculators.
You can obtain educational content on the Web at TI’s Activities
Exchange (education.ti.com/activities.) Or, using the tools on the product
CD, you can create your own:
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StudyCard™ stacks
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CellSheet™ application variables
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TI NoteFolio™ Creator text files that you transfer to TI calculators
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TImeSpan™ Creator timelines of chronological events that can be
viewed on a TI calculator
