Thursday, February 2, 2012

Digital Learning Day

Across the nation, February 1st was Digital Learning Day. A recent quote is an eye opener:

January 2012, Google Chromebooks Group Product Manager, Rajen Sheth:

"How many of you," he asked, "remember the world before the Web?" Nearly every hand in the room went up. "It's interesting," said Sheth, "Not long ago it occurred to me that this year's graduating class of high school seniors will be the first group of students to not know the world before the Web. Every student in every classroom from here on out will be part of the Web generation." That, he said, has serious implications for how we educate.

Here some examples of how our teachers integrated technology in the classrooms:

PK3, Mrs. Peek: with the use of the iPad2, we watched Animal Planet’s video shorts of actual black bears getting ready to hibernate.  Ended with Sesame Street’s word of the day- Study on hibernation. 



K, Mrs. Weber: We researched online how to make a robotic device, researched online, then created our own on paper. They thought it was cool. 




2nd grade: activities using a new Brightlink interactive projector - more news on that coming soon! 



4th grade: virtually dissecting an owl pellet in preparation for dissecting an actual owl pellet Thursday.



5th, Mrs. Couch: used the website, www.classdojo.com - a new interactive, real time, behavior management system.




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