| Janetta Garton |
In education times have changes, but not much else. Lack of teacher and student access to 21st century tools, and lack of administrator support is a problem.
Lack of access to new tools for learning.
• Many of his students don’t have access at home, 5th graders each have a laptop at school; students taught safe use of this power tool, just like shop class;
• Practice math facts
• Keyboarding
Lack of audience or reason to think critically about my work/Lack of voice for student concerns and opinions
• Blogging, students blog or laptops or in computer lab
• Why blog: audience, reason to care about quality of work, receive feedback, students motivated, leave comments on each other’s blogs, more writing; feedback on thinking; students write about their understanding of a topic, investigation, or field trip; besides just publishing stories, poems, etc. blogs create the opportunity to discuss ethics, questioning, discussing topic with others
Curriculum that has too often been stripped of creativity, the arts, and real world applications and connections
• Digital video: publish student learning, encourages creativity, ted talks, teach content but use higher level thinking skills, (intercom, are you talking about the arts? No, No CA)
• Post videos online, work around hosting our own server, use youtube
• Examples in classroom: science experiments, illustrations, ESL student video clip, structured peer evaluation as a part of lesson, student determined and would not give up, video makes it important and pronunciation is made relevant and important; celebrating student success; 7 second video clip that makes such a difference in a student’s life; students very motivated to redo and make perfect, practice; 4th graders; kids start to come up with topics that are important to them that they want to make videos about; class commissioned by CBS to produce a video on differences; Wiki for local animal park; animal adaptations;
Difficult to share learning experiences
• Access to students and teachers from other cultures, experts outside your immediate area.
• Access to the classroom for those not able to attend school otherwise
• Video conferencing with Skype, headsets; used skype to bring in other classes to share in expert’s visit. Kids processed the visit by blogging; Challenger’s Krista McCullough’s mother came to visit their class, liked intimate groups so she didn’t want a larger venue;
• Video conferencing leukemia student, Celeste, “you’re skyping” including her in a regular day of school, class picture that includes laptop with a live feed from Celeste, she’s now back in school
• Collaborated with a class in Virginia, interviewed about inclusion experience
How to collaborate, share and archive work and research easily so they are available at school, home and with students in other locations.
• Wiki pages: webpages, class wiki of work/projects, links they use often (math language skills, research), class searched and evaluated the best sites for the wiki for research of animals, used flickr, available for anyone to use
How to easily share and use digital photos taken on field trips and during class activities
• Flickr: easily access images from any station; sharing, printing, use on projects, mashups for embedding o make slideshows etc. photos used for illustrations,
• Not about teaching technology, but enhancing learning, making students learners, teach themselves, community service projects, students feel good about the quality of their work while contributing to their community and still covering curriculum. School administration and society’s reluctance to accept these tools.
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