connecting and creating in a 1:1 classroom
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Creating and Connecting in a 1:1 Classroom
Catherine Laguna
Quakertown Comm. School District
How can access to net books change the dynamics of your classroom?
How can access to net books change the dynamics of your classroom?
Technology Transformations
Managing the 1:1 Classroom
Connecting and Creating
Technology Transformations
Creativity coach Julia Cameron comments that her clients reap the fruit of their labors only if they are willing to go out and "shake the trees," but weirdly, the fruit that falls almost never comes from the tree the person is shaking.
Martha Beck
Technology Transformations
TechnologyGoal
Technology Transformations
Even if the notes are on a Power Point, teacher centered lessons can still be boring to the students.
Technology Transformations
Hyper Studio
Sometimes reluctant writers just need a fun palette of tools to make them great communicators.
Technology Transformations
Students will write and edit complete sentences when they are planning to read them into a microphone.
Technology Transformations
Students can easily explain the results of their experiment after they have watched it being graphed in real time.
Technology Transformations
When I began to give students a voice, I learned that I was never really in control in the first place.
Managing the 1:1 Classroom
Class Routine
• Start and End of Class
• Numbered Netbooks
• Home Site like Edmodo
Clear Rules
• Carrying Netbooks
• Appropriate Sites
• Consequences
Engaging Activities
• Safe Environment
• Connecting with Peers
• Creative Experiences
Learner Driven
• Freedom to Explore
• Creative License
• Flexible Lessons
1:1 Technology
Connecting and Creating
Connecting and Creating
A dream is about building something – relationships, identity, quality of experience. Because dreams rise out of human need, they feed the spirit in a profoundly satisfying way.
Bill Strickland
Make the Impossible Possible
Connecting and Creating
every human being … is born full of potential, and that the way to unlock that potential is to place individuals in a nurturing environment and expose them to the kind of stimulating and empowering creative experiences that feed the human spirit.
Bill StricklandMake the Impossible Possible
Connecting and Creating
Connecting and Creating
Isolated skill practice is contrary to the brain's instinct to preserve its energy, because the brain does not tend to have the expectation of pleasure in such learning environments.
Judy WillisWriting and the Brain: Neuroscience Shows the
Pathways to Learning
Connecting and Creating
Connecting and Creating
On the other hand, when students know information will be used to create solutions to problems that interest them or to create products they want to create, that is when the brain predicts pleasure and applies efforts to achieve the desirable goal.
Judy WillisWriting and the Brain: Neuroscience Shows the
Pathways to Learning
Connecting and Creating
Content: Forms of Energy
Delivery:
Research
Live Binders Google DocsText Book:
Online Lesson and Workbook
Product:
Project
Choice of Creative Projects
Connect Create
How can netbooks be used to engage students in a creative and collaborative experience?
Connecting and Creating
Content: Forms of Energy
Delivery:
Research
Live Binders Google DocsText Book:
Online Lesson and Workbook
Product:
Project
Choice of Creative Projects
A Wiki can become an outlet for student
creativity and ideas.
Connecting and Creating
Mrs. Laguna’s Class Wiki on Wikispaces.com
Connecting and Creating
Connecting and Creating
Mixbook
Connecting and Creating
Connecting and Creating
Connecting and Creating
Connecting and Creating
Using Netbooks to Connect
Google Docs example•Collaborative Research•Plan a Project•Share a Presentation•Use a Form to Collect Data
http://www.google.com/docs
Using Netbooks to Connect
Wikispaces example•Discussion Tab – students give feedback to their classmates•Keep a wiki journal of individual or group’s work•Post resources to be shared by everyone
http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers
Using Netbooks to Connect
Social Bookmarking – Diigo example
•Students find online resources or upload pictures or notes•Uploaded bookmarks or notes are shared with a class “Group”•Tags are used to find resources easily
http://www.diigo.com/education
Using Netbooks to Connect
Edmodo example•Class discussion – students pose or respond to a question•Upload work or project to share with the class•Survey – share and tally responses
http://www.edmodo.com
Using Netbooks to Connect
Wall Wisher example•Students pose or respond to a question.•Students brainstorm ideas on a topic•Different classes share ideas together
http://www.wallwisher.com
Using Netbooks to Create
Simple Digital Camera for Still Photos and Video, Table Top Tripod Stand
Using Netbooks to Create
http://www.picnik.com http://pixlr.com/express
Using Netbooks to Create
Windows Live Movie Maker
Using Netbooks to Create
Share Poster Projects with Mixbook
Using Netbooks to Create
Photo Contest on Flickr
Using Netbooks to Create
Simple Video Made with White Boards
Using Netbooks to Create
Using Netbooks to Create
https://bubbl.us
http://diagram.ly
Using Netbooks to Create