Every other year in my rotation with 1st and 2nd grade levels, I have a “Twits” year. It culminates in a student multimedia presentation where each student presents characters they’ve designed. I’m looking forward to this year. I guide students to keep this fun!
My challenge this year, is to broaden my read aloud literature [...]
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Filed under: Information Literacy, literature
My children have led me into new uses of technology ever since they were little. It’s happened again!
The Back Story
12 years ago, when we brought my two older boys away from school for half the school year, to rural New England, we learned how to get a computer in the public library to [...]
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Filed under: Autreat, Differences, Information Literacy, Neurodiversity, media, social
(A moment of reflection)
I have three tech chore lists going:
the regular (mostly maintenance) chores,
the “keep up” and “keep advancing” with tech changes chores,
and the end of school year chores.
Blogging is actually on the “keep up” and “keep advancing” list. At least, that’s where it was when I started blogging. Re-evaluating where it belongs is [...]
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I love this unit! It challenges students to demonstrate “competence” in a number of traditional skills, and then invites them to purposely put their own spin on the data, and decide what is important to communicate. Next, they make a graphical presentation which communicates “their” point about the data. It demonstrates a number [...]
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Filed under: Information Literacy, My Middle School Tech Class, education, graphics
