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- 1. Lunch & Learn Franchesca Salas University of Phoenix CUR/545 Dr. Clark July 4, 2022
- 2. Welcome!! Hello everyone and welcome to today’s lunch and learn activity. Today, you’ll have the opportunity to come together with your grade level team, have lunch, and learn new ways to increase your students’ learning experience by incorporating technology. Today’s session will be led by our instructional coach, Mrs. Salas, who will continue to work with us and support us as we explore ways to implement technology into our classroom. 2
- 3. 3 WHY INCORPORATE TECHNOLOGY? Incorporating technology into our daily instruction can be both empowering and overwhelming, especially when it’s already something that you don’t feel comfortable with. This year, it is my goal to help support my teachers by demonstrating how technology can enhance instruction by utilizing it to create an interactive and creative classroom that provides the students with innovative resources.
- 4. 4 What can you expect to learn from today? How to manage technology in the classroom when: ✓ Facilitating group activities ✓ Conducting research ✓ Communicating Final Projects By the end of lunch, you will have gained much more reassurance in how technology can be used, in simple and easy ways, in order to enhance and transform traditional learning as we strive to support our 21st century learners and meet the requirements of our NC State Standards.
- 5. 5 FACILITATING GROUP ACTIVITIES Classroom scenario: For Social Studies, students will be placed in small groups of 4. Each group will be tasked with creating a news report video illustrating the current event their group was assigned utilizing the program FlipGrid. How to manage technology while facilitating group activities: Assign each student with detailed responsibilities Example responsibility roles: ✓ Material Manager: Picks up, distributes, collects, turns in, or puts away materials. ✓ Director: Keeps group on task and verifies that all members contribute ✓ Reporter: Takes notes on important thoughts expressed in the group and writes the final summary. ✓ Editor: Checks for accuracy and clarity of thinking during discussions and checks written work. (Illinois State Board of Education, n.d.)
- 6. 6 CONDUCTING RESEARCH There are 6 online research skills your students must know prior to conducting research on the internet: 1. Check the sources 2. Ask good questions 3. Go beyond the surface 4. Be patient 5. Respect ownership 6. Use your networks (Thomas, 2015)
- 7. 7 COMMUNICATING FINAL PROJECTS On your Google classroom, you can: ✓ Post due dates on the Google calendar where students will be able to view it whenever they want and receive reminders through the notification system. ✓ Instructions for final project can be posted on the Google classroom for students reference. ✓ Grading rubric can be displayed on Google classroom On the ClassDojo app: ✓ If parents are not able to view their child’s Google classroom, they can access the ClassDojo app to receive information on the final project and due date. They may also ask questions if needed.
- 8. 8 CONSIDERATIONS: When it comes to technology, we can’t always predicate that things are going to work out as we had hope had planned. For one, ensuring that our students understand how to properly use the technology is important in receiving accurate results. Two, we need to be comfortable with the idea of being adaptable when technology resources are either not enough, just enough, or in various forms. When we have an idea how to adjust to different scenarios or situations, we’re better able to handle ourselves and take control over the situation. To help illustrate, in the upcoming slides, I’ll be providing some scenarios with possible solutions.
- 9. 9 HOW TO MANAGE A CLASSROOM WITH ONE COMPUTER Solution: Connect your computer to an overhead projector or tv This will allow you to be able to: ✓ Display creative presentations. ✓ Stream videos ○ Go on a virtual field trip to the African jungle so they can see live images. ✓ Display animations, notes, pictures, etc. ✓ Display concept map ○ Fill in the bubbles during whole group discussion
- 10. 10 HOW TO MANAGE A MULTI-COMPUTER CLASSROOM ✓ Set up a designated area in your classroom for the computers. ✓ Inform students of your rules while in the computer area. ✓ Inform your students of the purpose of the computers and what they’ll be used for. (group/individual assignments/research)
- 11. 11 HOW TO MANAGE HANDHELD DEVICES Examples of useful handheld devices: ✓ Calculators ○ Assist students with math ✓ Digital Camera ○ For projects, students can take photos of objects that will be used for their project. ✓ Digital audio recorder ○ Students can record their voice to add extra media to their presentations. ✓ E-book reader ○ Students can have access to e-textbooks if hard copies are not available. ✓ Cell phones ○ Provides students with on-demand access to conduct research during a class discussion.
- 12. 12 HOW TO MANAGE iPADS, TABLETS, OR LAPTOPS ✓ Independent or individual activities ✓ Whole Group activities ✓ Small Group activities ✓ Center activities
- 13. THANK YOU!! Thank you for attending today’s lunch and learn activity. I hope that the information shared with you today provided you with a better understanding for how to incorporate technology into your classroom in easy and simple ways. I will continue to follow up with you all at our weekly PLC meetings. Thank you and have a great day! 13
- 14. 14 References: Illinois State Board of Education. (n.d.). Collaborative Learning Guide. Retrieved from: https://education.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/casei/collaborative_learning_guidea.pdf Maloy, R. W., Verock, R. A., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2016). Transforming learning with new technologies, enhanced pearson etext with loose-leaf version -- access card package, 3/e (3rd ed.). Pearson Education. Thomas, Edna. (2015). The 6 Online Research Skills Your Students Need. Retrieved from: https://aofirs.org/articles/the-6-online-research-skills-your-students-need
Editor's Notes
- Will it be possible to manage group activities? The answer is yes! But before we get ahead of ourselves we must keep in mind to limit the number of devices being used and create small diverse groups.
- Thomas (2015) suggests 6 skills for your students must know prior to conducting research on the internet. Check your resources: As a class, discuss how to evaluate a website. Identify if the website is up to date, how’s the security, does it provide in depth knowledge, and does it come from a trust source. Ask good questions Develop and refine search questions to get better research results Go beyond the surface Encourage students to pursue information to gain a broad perspective Be patient Encourage students that despite research challenges, to display an emotional resilience and continue to conduct their research. Respect ownership Inform the students the importance of respecting that the research found is not their work and to cite their sources to give them credit. Use your networks Social networks can be a great source of information and to share information.
- Having only 1 computer available may not be ideal but don’t let that discourage you from creating a meaningful and impactful lesson utilizing technology. Having 1 computer can make a big difference in supporting our diverse learners, especially those who are our visual and auditory learners. Here are some suggestions to consider if you only have 1 computer available.
- Having the option for each student to have access to a computer provides teachers with the ability to teach their students more information, enhance their learning experience with the help of various educational programs, and helps to keep the students engaged.
- Handheld devices provide support for subject content and help to deepen student knowledge while achieving a deeper level of learning. (Maloy, et. al., 2014)
- iPads, tablets, and laptops are great tools to have as they help support a diverse classroom as they serve to provide versatile learning opportunities. Here are some suggestions for incorporating these types of technology resources: During independent or individual activities students can get logged into ABCya.com which is an educational game program. Our young students can benefit from this website because it makes learning fun through the use of games. During whole group activities, teachers can use these devices to have students follow along with a text, have an individual copy of the PowerPoint presentation to follow along to, or participate in a quick Kahoot quiz. During small group activities, students can utilize these devices to access their iStation learning portal to help the teacher and students identify what needs to be reviewed during their small group session. During center activities, these devices can be used to help students complete tasks that are appointed to them at each station.