This week I spent a day with the 6th graders. I’ve been working all year with this group of students but with a science teacher. Today, their Language Arts teacher wanted me to show them how to use Inspiration to help them plan their writing piece about their career study. These students were right on [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I work as the technology integrationist in a rural K-8 school in central Maine. Last summer the school purchased a new laptop cart with 26 MacBooks just for the second floor of the elementary school….that’s Grades 2-4.
I love working with all ages, but today’s 3rd grade lesson on Keynote was amazing. These 10 year [...]
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