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Time for your Annual Classroom Upgrade
Class Upgrade
- Technology is becoming essential in our ever evolving world. As your child's educator, my job is to prepare them for the world they will enter when their schooling is done. Navigating and using technology to its full potential is a must in our society! In using technology in our classroom, I can help your children experience what it is like to incorporate technology into every day activities and assignments. Encouraging technology use will drive their innovation and creativity through a channel our society relies on.
- As we venture with using some different avenues in our classroom, I will need your support and help, parents. Your involvement is absolutely needed and necessary to make this successful. We will be using a couple of common apps you are probably familiar with and I will be using one that is new to you. For the new app, I will post instructional videos for you, as well as focusing on this apps in class. Helping your child and teaching them how to navigate on apps and problem solving them will add to their solving abilities as well as increase their technological abilities.
What are we using, again?
Google Earth
Many of us have used Google Earth once or twice in our lifetime. In our classroom, this app will become an every day tool. Whether we are talking about Outer Space concepts, visiting a historical site, or learning what scenery gave inspiration to great authors, your child will be able to visually connect with two dimensional material in a three dimensional world. This will provide a more concrete understanding of the material we cover. Google Earth will be encourage to be used during presentations this year, too!
YouTube
We have all watched numerous videos on YouTube. It's the place where we can get music, laughs, inspiration, and even tears at times. For our class, we will have our own YouTube channel. The goal with our channel will be to add a creative element to our projects. Their videos can be any and everything they want as long as the project conveys the graded message. Through the videos I am asking you, the parents, to film not only the performance but the process as well. Film, the brain-storming process, the original idea that failed, the bloopers. These will provide students with an inside look into the process of projects instead of just the final presentation. When children have the opportunity to witness different ways to complete and even overcome a task, they can learn to analyze and maybe incorporate different ideas to their process next time.
Nearpod
This is an app we will be downloading in our classroom. Each student will have this app downloaded and I the teacher will have my app. From there, I can allow the students access to any and all materials that are used in the lesson. In math, I can give them the problem right on their tablet instantly! No need to worry about copying the problem wrong! Everyone will work the problem out at their seat and as the teacher I can share everyone's answers (no names, of course) or I can share a select number of answers, so that we may discuss each path for solving the problem. I can also see who has or hasn't submitted an answer. This app is not only used in math, but all subjects! This is a great class management app, as it gives me feedback with what percentage of the class is doing well and which percentage of the class needs help!
Success! = easier than a text!
With your help and my implementation of this new format, we can assure our children be successful with our evolving technology as well as increase their creativity and perspective of technology!