Creating and Connecting in a 1:1 Classroom

Catherine Laguna

Quakertown Comm. School District

claguna@qcsd.org

How can access to net books change the dynamics of your classroom?

How can access to net books change the dynamics of your classroom?

Technology Transformations

Managing the 1:1 Classroom

Connecting and Creating

Technology Transformations

Creativity coach Julia Cameron comments that her clients reap the fruit of their labors only if they are willing to go out and "shake the trees," but weirdly, the fruit that falls almost never comes from the tree the person is shaking.

Martha Beck

Technology Transformations

TechnologyGoal

Technology Transformations

Even if the notes are on a Power Point, teacher centered lessons can still be boring to the students.

Technology Transformations

Hyper Studio

Sometimes reluctant writers just need a fun palette of tools to make them great communicators.

Technology Transformations

Students will write and edit complete sentences when they are planning to read them into a microphone.

Technology Transformations

Students can easily explain the results of their experiment after they have watched it being graphed in real time.

Technology Transformations

When I began to give students a voice, I learned that I was never really in control in the first place.

Managing the 1:1 Classroom

Class Routine

• Start and End of Class

• Numbered Netbooks

• Home Site like Edmodo

Clear Rules

• Carrying Netbooks

• Appropriate Sites

• Consequences

Engaging Activities

• Safe Environment

• Connecting with Peers

• Creative Experiences

Learner Driven

• Freedom to Explore

• Creative License

• Flexible Lessons

1:1 Technology

Connecting and Creating

Connecting and Creating

A dream is about building something – relationships, identity, quality of experience. Because dreams rise out of human need, they feed the spirit in a profoundly satisfying way.

Bill Strickland

Make the Impossible Possible

Connecting and Creating

every human being … is born full of potential, and that the way to unlock that potential is to place individuals in a nurturing environment and expose them to the kind of stimulating and empowering creative experiences that feed the human spirit.

Bill StricklandMake the Impossible Possible

Connecting and Creating

Connecting and Creating

Isolated skill practice is contrary to the brain's instinct to preserve its energy, because the brain does not tend to have the expectation of pleasure in such learning environments.

Judy WillisWriting and the Brain: Neuroscience Shows the

Pathways to Learning

Connecting and Creating

Connecting and Creating

On the other hand, when students know information will be used to create solutions to problems that interest them or to create products they want to create, that is when the brain predicts pleasure and applies efforts to achieve the desirable goal.

Judy WillisWriting and the Brain: Neuroscience Shows the

Pathways to Learning

Connecting and Creating

Content: Forms of Energy

Delivery:

Research

Live Binders Google DocsText Book:

Online Lesson and Workbook

Product:

Project

Choice of Creative Projects

Connect Create

How can netbooks be used to engage students in a creative and collaborative experience?

Connecting and Creating

Content: Forms of Energy

Delivery:

Research

Live Binders Google DocsText Book:

Online Lesson and Workbook

Product:

Project

Choice of Creative Projects

A Wiki can become an outlet for student

creativity and ideas.

Connecting and Creating

Mrs. Laguna’s Class Wiki on Wikispaces.com

Connecting and Creating

Connecting and Creating

Mixbook

Connecting and Creating

Connecting and Creating

Connecting and Creating

Connecting and Creating

Using Netbooks to Connect

Google Docs example•Collaborative Research•Plan a Project•Share a Presentation•Use a Form to Collect Data

http://www.google.com/docs

Using Netbooks to Connect

Wikispaces example•Discussion Tab – students give feedback to their classmates•Keep a wiki journal of individual or group’s work•Post resources to be shared by everyone

http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers

Using Netbooks to Connect

Social Bookmarking – Diigo example

•Students find online resources or upload pictures or notes•Uploaded bookmarks or notes are shared with a class “Group”•Tags are used to find resources easily

http://www.diigo.com/education

Using Netbooks to Connect

Edmodo example•Class discussion – students pose or respond to a question•Upload work or project to share with the class•Survey – share and tally responses

http://www.edmodo.com

Using Netbooks to Connect

Wall Wisher example•Students pose or respond to a question.•Students brainstorm ideas on a topic•Different classes share ideas together

http://www.wallwisher.com

Using Netbooks to Create

Simple Digital Camera for Still Photos and Video, Table Top Tripod Stand

Using Netbooks to Create

http://www.picnik.com http://pixlr.com/express

Using Netbooks to Create

Windows Live Movie Maker

Using Netbooks to Create

Share Poster Projects with Mixbook

Using Netbooks to Create

Photo Contest on Flickr

Using Netbooks to Create

Simple Video Made with White Boards

Using Netbooks to Create

Using Netbooks to Create

https://bubbl.us

http://diagram.ly

Using Netbooks to Create