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- 1. WEB LITERACY FOR BABIES….? How two pre-schools are transforming curricular pedagogy to go beyond typical “tools”
- 2. Two diverse philosophies • Creative Curriculum • Teacher directed: The activities are planned for children. The environment is organized around curricular goals. Skills based. Teachers initiate discussion. • Reggio Emilia • Student directed: Children have some control over the direction of their learning. Children explore the environment and create new ones. Children have a relationship with other children Children must have endless ways and opportunities to express themselves. One distinct challenge: overcoming anxiety about technology access for preschoolers.
- 3. Using BAR CODES to enrich learning.Combining literacy skills, social skills and critical thinking skills in a transformation use project at the Creative Curriculum preschool program. PROJECT ONE: THE CREATIVE CURRICULUM PRE-SCHOOL
- 4. The BAR CODE Project What began as a “paper plate” method of locating a seat at snack time transformed into using the iPad to scan personalized bar codes. Common Core Standards: • Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses. • Describes the relationship between illustrations and print. • Thinks symbolically. http://www/corestandards.org/assets/CCSI Grappling’s Transforming Use Indicators: • Students, staff have access to technology where ever learning occurs. • Developing HOTS
- 5. BAR CODES ENRICH TEACHER LEARNING mcspolarbears.blogspot.com
- 6. Where in the school is…. The teacher built on the bar code project to expand the student roles as self-directed learners, researchers and explorers. Common Core Standards: • Uses symbols to represent something not present. • Uses language to connect experiences. • Incorporates new, technical words in everyday conversations. http://www/corestandards.org/assets/CCSI Grappling’s Transforming Use Indicators: • Students initiate technology use as they create their own learning experiences. • Teacher roles expand to include designers… • Sustained inquiry for original thinking. (iPad, Apple TV, blogspot) Purple pancake day The Music Teacher CLASSROOM MASCOTS
- 7. WHERE IS ICEY? A SCAVENGER HUNT • DISCOVERY • SKILL DEMONSTRATION • MEANINGFUL APPLICATION
- 8. What happened? 1. THE SCHOOL “THINK TANK” 2. Accepted into the Microsoft 2013 School of the Future Forum http://www.sofpartnershipfoundation.org/content/agenda
- 9. CONNECTING beyond the local community Here Olivia (Seattle) and Marcella (NYC) are sharing their experiences with BAR codes on a Google Hang-out.
- 10. THE FAMILY Student generated ideas for creating three books around a central theme: FAMILY - jobs, food and fun. PROJECT TWO: THE REGGIO EMILIA PRE-SCHOOL
- 11. THE PENGUIN ROOM’S FAMILY FOOD BOOK Opening the door to using the iPad as a tool for writing books. Common Core Standards: • Uses language to connect experiences. • Asks and answers questions. • Interacts during read-alouds and book conversations. http://www/corestandards.org/assets/CCSI Grappling’s Transforming Use Indicators: • Tools are used to construct meaning and produce information that is useful to others. • Uses community learning tools • Students, staff have access to technology where ever learning occurs.
- 12. From oral to written expression iPad, Book Creator App. Apple TV Projector
- 13. BUT, IT WENT BEYOND WRITING A BOOK The use of Skype as a means of connecting home and school
- 14. Families READING books together takes on a new meaning.
- 15. LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD
- 17. What’s next? THE TECH TIP TEAM IS BORN…
- 18. SO WHAT? Technology in these schools is now being used to: teach pre-literacy skills, teach language skills, encourage socialization skills, bridge the family and school communities, engage learners, increase skills for students and teachers, promote professional development through collaboration. AND- creating sustainable web literacy cultures.
Editor's Notes
- In order to do this I had to find an existing part of the curriculum and philosophy that would be enhanced with the use of technology. For the Creative Curriculum school the focus was on the common core skills of literacy and for the Reggio school the focus was on the family. In each schools we are looking at pre-literate 3 year olds and thus needed to find a tool that would take them beyond drawing their stories.We selected one classroom at each school to pilot the use of iPads to replace a current “tool”. Here are the results.
- The Microsoft TAG app was used on the iPad in order to scan the codes.Each code needed to be programmed on the Microsoft TAG website.Each code had a background picture of the Polar bear using a photo editing software. Instructionally this was important because it was a visual queue.
- The students scan a code that reveals a classmates name. When the bar code is scanned, a child's last name is revealed. The objective of this scanning activity is to match the first name of a classmate (written on paper plates) to the first name by scanning the bar code. The children learned to move their bodies and the iPad in a way for the iPad to detect the bar code on the screen. Hand-eye coordination skills were worked on as they aimed the code to the middle of the scanner target. Critical thinking skills of reading, recalling names learned, and matching the names were all included in this technology exercise.Name recognition activities were typically done in a match to sample format. This is a teacher directed school, so the teachers would print the names in various locations for students to “identify”. Kids wear their names, color their names in with crayons, trace letters in their names, names are written on a piece of paper on the schedule, etc. Now, the iPad –recently introduced in the school – is reframing the instructional focus for teachers. This aligns with Grappling’s Tranformative uses indicator “teacher talk is “new stories with new tools”
- The classroom teacher and assistant teacher worked together to design clue in a simulated “where in the world is…” game designed to A free blog was created in order to have the codes link to a blog entry that shows the clue.Photos and videos were created by the teacher and myself.
- On this Friday, “ICEY” the polar bear mascot didn’t come to school…. ICEY left clues as to his whereabouts both inside and outside of the classroom. Each classroom in the school has an animal as it’s mascot. Friday is the day that the mascot is given to a child to care for over the week-end.
- 3 VIDEO CLIPS REPRESENT THESE THREE LEARNING CONCEPTS.
- As a result of this single class project the teacher recruited two more teachers from each of the age leves (2’s and 4’s) and created the “think tank” for the purpose of developing tech curriculum across all grades.
- Students wrote and recorded pages for each book – they saw the words COME ALIVE as they spoke. and shared them with families via skype.
- Here the teacher is typing what this little girl is saying for her “page” of the book. Each student in the classroom “wrote” a page for each of the 3 books. The teachers used the Apple Projector to share what each child was saying in print.
- THIS IS A SLIDE OF WALKER’S ROOM. HE IS SHARING THIS WITH THE CLASS AND HIS PARENTS (WHO ARE IN THE CLASSROOM) OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE OTHER KIDS TO ASK QUESTIONS, , TALK ABOUT COMMON INTERESTS, ETC. HERE HE IS PRESENTING HIS FAVORITE BUILDING STRUCTURE THAT IS IN HIS ROOM. TALK ABOUT ENGAGEMENT!!!
- WALKER’S FAMILY. When parents are part of the creation it increases connections between home and school- student and family. No more “nothing” in response to what did you do at school today. Parents ask meaningful questions.
- This changes the game when kids go home and the parents have been involved in classroom work.
- Here are two examples of how the book creator APP that you saw being used to create text from audio ended up embedding student drawings in the BOOK and how it facilitated reading. When students read their own text it is more meaningful.
- THIS SCHOOL FOUND THE PARENT INVOLVEMENT SO VALUABLE AND SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT USING TECHNOLOGY CAME FROM THIS ACTIVITY THAT THE SCHOOL HAS CREATED A TECH TEAM WHO WILL PROVIDE MONTHLY “TECH TIPS” TO PARENTS –THEY ARE DETERMINING WHICH TECH TOOLS THEY WILL USE TO DO THIS.