Posted in Integration Techniques:Teachers on Dec 1st, 2008 No Comments »
A group of 2nd graders came into their classroom to find me and my computer screen projected on the wall. We were looking at an interactive physics web site on projectile motion.
You wouldn’t think that second graders would be interested in this on the surface, but these students took turns [...]
Posted in Integration Techniques:Teachers on Dec 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Most teachers aren’t nearly as fortunate as I have been. They have a few laptops available, maybe one or two desktops in their classrooms. Not many have a mobile lab of 20-30 laptops with Internet access available to them…but they really should, you know.
What to [...]
Posted in Classroom Web Pages on Dec 1st, 2008 No Comments »
This noon a 4th grade teacher asked me if she could “send” to all the laptops the URL of the page I wanted students to access. I asked her, “Why not put them on your web page? Then the learning doesn’t have to stop after the bus leaves the school yard” “No,” she replied, ” [...]
Posted in Student Use of technology on Dec 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
This morning a 6th grade science teacher met with me to finish up planning for our two-three week session in the lab. The plans revolved around increasing student understanding of cell structure, both animals and plants. I never had biology, so this was all new to me and pretty neat [...]
