Chromebooks significantly improve teaching and learning content, assessment, and student collaboration. They also provide a catalyst to better motivate scholars to see the “real-world work” application of classroom learning, and how technology makes work collaborative, creative, and fun! Lessons would be more effective through the use of chromebooks (e.g., virtual geometry manipulatives). Effective classroom assessments using technology target individual scholar’s understandings and misconceptions. Communal student discourse allows for both real-world connections, and relationships to classroom learning!
As a showcase project, scholars design a city park involving the real-world application of STEM and literacy concepts. Google Earth could be used to help scholars better understand abstract concepts like what certain objects may look like from a “helicopter view.” Working through the scientific process, scholars learn that success is not always immediate, but just like some of the world's most difficult problems, mistakes and perseverance are required. In addition, scholar collaboration would be vastly improved as students apply digital literacy skills researching and writing like real-world architects.
Year-long assessment would come alive with games and quick, effective “check-ups” to target individual scholar’s learning. Scholars who have mastered math concepts can use Chromebooks as a re-teaching tool to help struggling peers, enriching and improving student engagement. In addition, more frequent ongoing assessment using technology would both help scholars improve test-taking strategies, and apply these strategies when taking high-stakes standardized tests like PARCC.
Chromebooks foster an environment of more risk-taking by sharing daily classwork anonymously with the whole class. Technology automates manual processes allowing more time for higher order critical thinking such as comparing and contrasting problem solving approaches. Students better work collaboratively creating word problems using digital literacy tools including audio and videos. Chromebooks provide an immense amount of opportunities for students to collaborate, and “show-off” their learning using many different modalities.
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Chromebooks significantly improve teaching and learning content, assessment, and student collaboration. They also provide a catalyst to better motivate scholars to see the “real-world work” application of classroom learning, and how technology makes work collaborative, creative, and fun! Lessons would be more effective through the use of chromebooks (e.g., virtual geometry manipulatives). Effective classroom assessments using technology target individual scholar’s understandings and misconceptions. Communal student discourse allows for both real-world connections, and relationships to classroom learning!
As a showcase project, scholars design a city park involving the real-world application of STEM and literacy concepts. Google Earth could be used to help scholars better understand abstract concepts like what certain objects may look like from a “helicopter view.” Working through the scientific process, scholars learn that success is not always immediate, but just like some of the world's most difficult problems, mistakes and perseverance are required. In addition, scholar collaboration would be vastly improved as students apply digital literacy skills researching and writing like real-world architects.
Year-long assessment would come alive with games and quick, effective “check-ups” to target individual scholar’s learning. Scholars who have mastered math concepts can use Chromebooks as a re-teaching tool to help struggling peers, enriching and improving student engagement. In addition, more frequent ongoing assessment using technology would both help scholars improve test-taking strategies, and apply these strategies when taking high-stakes standardized tests like PARCC.
Chromebooks foster an environment of more risk-taking by sharing daily classwork anonymously with the whole class. Technology automates manual processes allowing more time for higher order critical thinking such as comparing and contrasting problem solving approaches. Students better work collaboratively creating word problems using digital literacy tools including audio and videos. Chromebooks provide an immense amount of opportunities for students to collaborate, and “show-off” their learning using many different modalities.
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