Weekly Geekly
April 9, 2018
Bright Bytes- What did we learn?
From Bright Bytes:
"Classrooms that prepare students for college and career seamlessly integrate technology into daily instruction in a way that intentionally scaffolds students’ technology skills. Although today’s students are digital natives with many skills in social networking, the majority of them are not social learners with the ability to apply complex technology skills to everyday challenges.
Furthermore, students’ everyday experiences are seamlessly interwoven with digital devices and instant communication. In order to meet students “where they are,” technology instruction must be infused in every subject area. Teachers are aware of this trend. According to a national Pewsurvey, 95% of students regularly use the Internet.
Given this, a modern curriculum must purposefully include incremental technology-infused skill acquisition. However, the design of every effective curriculum begins by considering the unique needs of the learners. Although students are comfortable tweeting and surfing the web, they still need support to use technology for productivity tasks such as creating spreadsheets and sending professional email.
Being aware of students’ skill profiles with technology can greatly inform the development of a cohesive, integrated curriculum that allows students to build the technology skills sets necessary for college and career."
I will continue to provide you with more insights from Bright Bytes about our strengths and weaknesses as we move forward. Thank you again for participating in the survey so that we could have this data!
Bright Bytes Insights- Lebanon Trail
Bright Bytes Insights- CTE Center
Have you met Sutori?
One of our group members suggested Sutori (formerly Histry) which is technically a timeline tool. It was a great way to create a quick presentation that we could all jump in and edit together. It was fast, we were able to throw in text and images, and most importantly it was easy for us to use it to answer our guiding questions and then share a link with the group so everyone could have the information. This whole project including presentations to the group took about an hour and a half.
In case you are curious what DLCs would use to present, the other groups used Popplet, an Adobe Spark page, and Padlet . Notice none of us chose Google slides presentations. Just something to think about :)