Technology through Time

Allen said that most parents come to understand that a computer is a neutral object — it all depends on how students use it. A personal computer and smartphone are not to be taken lightly, and he said, “Mistakes have to happen, but patterns of mistakes are no longer mistakes, but habits.” This is a fantastic quote from Holly Korbey's article, Teaching Respect and Responsibility — Even to Digital Natives It presents a much better way to teach kids about digital citizenship by thinking about positive behaviors in general not specifically to do with the technology. Furthermore these are things that kids in general need to learn, and have a chance to experience, even if it means crashing and burning.

I was just reading an article from Mr. Maters' blog about simulations in the classroom  and I thought this would be a great idea for language arts and tech. The students could be reading a novel and could simulate possible scenarios for different endings in the story.  Students could use blogs or discussion boards for sharing how their version of the scenario would end, and or present it from iPads using haiku deck to tell their story.  Another thought would be to use simulations for discussion of nonfiction text and discuss the effects and outcomes of certain events. Again students could use their iPads or computers not just for research, but for sharing their arguments digitally. 

There are lots of great resources for learning to use Noodle tools, but here is a challenge for you. 1. Create a Noodle Tools account  with the North Star Borough School District 2. Create a new Project. 3. Join your account with your Teacher's DropBox 4. Search for sources that would help you answer the question, what famous person are you most like? 5. Use the LibGuides for your school to help you search. 6. Once you find a source, click on Bibliography in your Dashboard. 7. Add your source. 8. Create a notecard with information from the source. 9. Drag the Notecard into your outline. 10. Export your Bibliography. 11. Export your Outline. Good luck, and use your help sheet.

We have been busy creating image collages with Art students using Sketchbook Pro on iPads. Students are generating lists of things that are about them and using pictures to represent them. We will be using this class word cloud to create a class collage. Extensions for this can be using them for Stories and tracking common words or vocabulary to learn more about a story as it moves through time.

Below is a self reflection of my progress as a first year ITT Content Section 1: Philosophy of Education Being an ITT, I believe my job is to provide support for teachers and students to utilize technology in their learning and teaching. In order for this to happen students and teachers need to see the technology as a tool to complete the learning or reach the learning process, other wise it is something added into the curriculum. So when I provide support for teachers, I work closely with them to help them to integrate technology seamlessly into content they are already teaching. We then discuss a variety of technology tools and possibilities until we can identify one that works best for the teachers and will help students meet and demonstrate the standards. Content Section 2: Respect for Individual and Cultural Characteristics  I have also found that where one tool works great for one teacher it may not be the right tool for another teacher, often because of individual...

Projects provided by Schools so Far West Valley High School iMovie: SPanish Poetry Glogster: Career Posters Google Docs: Writing Workshop  PowerCourse: Formative Assessments Copyright and Creative Common Lesson Hutchison High School PowerCourse: Assessment, Workshop, Discussion Board Turnitin: Research Paper Submission Socrative: Formative Assessment  Digital Citizenship Lesson Lathrop Smartboard: French Storytelling Google Docs: Writing Workshop PowerCourse: Formative Assessment PowerPoint: Warm-up Voicethread: Writing and Sharing North Pole High School  Google Sketch-up: Story Set designs iMovie and Voicethread: Spanish  iMovie: Presentation North Pole Middle School Voicethread: Telling your story iMovie: Poetry  GPS: Sharing written story and treasure Ben Eilsen:  iMovie: Re-inactment of Hamlet Turnitin: Writing and Editing iMovie: News Cast Foreign Language Apps on iPad Randy Smith Middle...