There are so many different ways I am going to integrate technology into my classroom, and I cannot wait! After these two days of class I have so many different ideas and plans I want to bring into the 4th grade classroom I will be student teaching at this fall. I would like to integrate research for the students on a topic, say in history or social studies. I then want to assign ( or allow them to pick a country of their interest!) students a country to look through the lens of and present that to their peers, potentially in a classroom Jigsaw activity or make a presentation/movie trailer for the information they want to share with us. Another way I would like to redefine technology in the classroom is to, have the students research a critical world issue, gain knowledge on it and then FaceTime or Skype someone from that country and get their opinion on it / interview them. Not only are they gaining technological skills, but they are also gaining communication skills within a global perspective.
Two more ideas that I would like to integrate are the YouTube video and the pictures as a story activity. Just like we learned today in class, when there is a visual put in front of us we will retain the information
65% more than if there was not. I want to put photos up on the screen and have students think of a story and how it relates to the content we are learning, or about to learn. If I do this activity before a unit I can attain an understanding on the level of what the students know before starting the unit. If I do this activity after a unit I can help understand how much the students learned or if there are any misconceptions in the room I can clear them up for them. I hope to incorporate student choice and allow them to have autonomy in the classroom as well as redefining learning with the SAMR Model.
The possibilities are endless with technology!!
Lastly, I want to ensure that I reflect on
the most important thing I learned in class today......
LOVE YOUR STUDENTS.
Two more ideas that I would like to integrate are the YouTube video and the pictures as a story activity. Just like we learned today in class, when there is a visual put in front of us we will retain the information 65% more than if there was not. I want to put photos up on the screen and have students think of a story and how it relates to the content we are learning, or about to learn. If I do this activity before a unit I can attain an understanding on the level of what the students know before starting the unit. If I do this activity after a unit I can help understand how much the students learned or if there are any misconceptions in the room I can clear them up for them. I hope to incorporate student choice and allow them to have autonomy in the classroom as well as redefining learning with the SAMR Model.
Hey Madison,
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate your post, it is helping me remember all of the different ideas we learned in class that we can use in our own classrooms in someway or another. I like your idea to have your students research from a different lens and then do jigsaw or a movie trailer. I also like that you ended it as Jeff did with the thing that matters most as a teacher...loving our students!
Madison! I love the methods you have here but love the core, apple core. love the students. this was good, brief wrap up of the day. thanks! PS the tags on your blog are super helpful and wish I did that on mine!
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