Remember in Goldie Locks and the Three Bears when Goldie Locks (that naughty girl she was, being in someone’s house without asking) sat at the table tasting porridge… this one is tooo hot…this one is tooo cold… this one is just right! That moment…The moment the porridge finally tasted perfectly warm, was exactly what happened this week!
This week things came together in awesome ways! So much awesomeness is happening. I simply can not contain it to a day by day account and feel the the urge to shout all of the awesomeness that happened this week!!!!
2) Students now complete all worksheets on the iPad (both in class and at home)
3) All class notes are taken on the iPad
4) Students know how to independently view documents side by side in Goodreader
ex. Students can complete their paragraph organizer on the iPad and view it on the same
screen while typing the paragraph using it
5) All grading is done at the beginning of each class (a huge change in routine for us)
6) Grading time is down to 5 minutes
7) Instant daily feedback of performance has significantly reduced the number of
corrections that need to be made to homework
8) Corrections are now done the day they happen, rather then on a specific day of the week
9) The overall pace of a class lesson has almost doubled,
significantly increasing the amount of instruction given
in a week
10) Students are starting to use their iPads to take notes on while looking at
videos / resources on the computer
11) We are almost a completely paperless classroom
12) WE… staff…myself and my Teaching Assistants…and my students are crazy
giddy happy and proud…WE ARE (almost completely) A PAPERLESS CLASSROOM!!!!
13) Students use all of our basic apps almost completely independently…
Goodreader, Dropbox, Google allowing me to begin to slowly introduce new tools
14) New fantasticness is emerging…Fantasticness I tell you!
15) We use the Socrative app once a week in two classes to record and document
student performance in Reading and Social Studies
16) We began using Study Blue to learn measurement abbreviations in Math class
17) Upon learning how to use Study Blue one of my students sat in his desk, stared at
me, stared some more and then said…
Can you just feel the sparks and connections clicking!!!
18) We discovered the app (during a day it was offered for free…bonus) Jet Scanner and a
whole new world of independent awesomeness was opened. No scanner needed
when you can take a picture of a worksheet, turn it into a PDF and then upload it
to Dropbox, share it with all of your students and they can upload it into Goodreader
and type and/or write on it
19) I am in the process of starting Assistive Technology
Evaluations for three of my students. I have plenty of
data already that these tools need to be a perminent
part of their educational days
Next weeks technology and iPad goals…
- Introducing, modeling how to use and using Baiboard to students…humongously huge deal…this means working in groups (something that is very challenging for my students and we rarely do)
- Changing my thinking about how we are teaching measurement to my Math students. No more memorizing and memorizing and memorizing conversion facts. I am going to focus on teaching them to use technology as a resource to access facts and information.
- Teach my students to use the Jet Scanner app, how to upload documents to our Dropbox and make them available to the class
- Explore and test out ClassDojo behavior management system
- Continue to our awesmomeness streak into the next week…because seriously..My StUdEnTs RoCk!!!!