Elementary Instructional Technology Tools Initiatives That Lead To More Robust Learning Presentation to the Board of Education March 19, 2013 Debbie Fallon-Computer Teacher deborah.fallon@plainedgeschools.org Elena Phillips-Enrichment and AIS Specialist elena.phillips@plainedgeschools.org
Resources to Address RTI AIMSWEB and NWEA AIMSweb • 3 screeners (Fall, Winter, Spring) • Progress monitoring probes (administered weekly, bi-monthly, etc..) depending on Tier • On-line screening & progress monitoring expedited process • Formulates graphs to show Rate Of Improvement NWEA • Administered to all K-1 students • Administered to Tier 2 and 3 students in grades 2-5 Ensuring Success Data meetings held often to discuss student progress and interventions • needed for success AIS/Reading/Math specialists have fluid schedules •
eSpark • iPad program • Individualized programs set up for students receiving services • Based on NWEA scores • Pre/Post- Tests • Apps and instructional videos geared toward specific skills • Student made video as culminating activity
ELA Common Core • Highlight ELA Common Core Standards that directly entail the use of technology • Meet by grade level • Review standards we are meeting and others we need to plan further to address
ELA Common Core: Speaking and Listening 2. Comprehension and Collaboration -Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively and orally. Kindergarteners making a connection to a story read on Starfall.com. • • First graders asking and answering questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media such as the Think Central Journeys website, Tumblebooks, or BrainPop Jr. • Second graders describing details from a text read aloud or information presented through some other media such as Think Central Journeys, Storyline Online or Online Storytime.
ELA Common Core: Speaking and Listening 5. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas-Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. • Kindergarteners adding details to a creation at the janbrett.com website and then sharing details about their creation. • First graders teaching about math addition strategies • Second graders creating audio recordings to promote fluency with a reading specialist. • Second graders creating a class multimedia presentation using Smart Notebook highlighting their dreams by including text, an illustration created at kerpoof.com to clarify ideas, and an audio recording.
WHALES A whale sticks its tail out of the water and swings it around into the air. Then, it slaps its tail on the water making a very loud splash! This is called lobtailing.
ELA Common Core: Speaking and Listening 5. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Third graders researching a country, “photoshopping” themselves into a photograph from their country and then creating audio recordings as if they were visiting the country.
ELA Common Core: Speaking and Listening 5. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas • Fifth graders creating a video about volcanoes in Enrichment • Free Online Teleprompter
ELA Common Core: Speaking and Listening 5. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas In collaboration with enrichment specialist and art teacher, fourth graders using • MovieMaker to create digital poems containing audio recordings, original illustrations and graphics found online.
ELA Common Core: Speaking and Listening 5. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas In collaboration with library media specialist and fourth grade teachers, • fourth graders creating public service announcement videos by working cooperatively to create scripts promoting nutrition, filming and then editing video using MovieMaker.
ELA Common Core: Reading for Informational Text and Literature 7. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas -Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively as well as in words. • Second graders reading along with a non-fiction audio book at BookFlix, taking notes and sharing the author’s purpose or reading a fiction ebook and creating a web of the characters, setting and plot. Second graders using Enchanted Learning and other related websites • to briefly research Christopher Columbus. • In collaboration with library media specialist, fourth graders interpreting online information related to explorers which includes interactive elements, timelines, graphs and diagrams. Fifth graders using Google Earth and related websites to record • information about plate tectonics and landforms in a specific area and sharing research by creating a clay model.
Read to Succeed • Great Adventure’s K-6 Read to Succeed program encourages recreational reading • Students reading for 6 hours recreationally receive a free ticket to Great Adventure Family members receive a discount on ticket purchases •
ELA Common Core: Writing 6. Production and Distribution of Writing-Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. Kindergarteners using Microsoft Word to writing about • their dreams for the world or publishing Love Lists. • First graders using the drawing and text tools at Disney’s kerpoof.com to create Valentines for veterans. • Second graders using bubbl.us to brainstorm what makes their community unique and then using web to compose an essay. Second graders researching and writing about places in their • community and the creating a Plainedge Tour in Google Earth. • Third graders publishing survey results by creating graphs using Kids’ Zone Create A Graph.
ELA Common Core: Writing 6. Production and Distribution of Writing-Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. • Fourth graders researching various aspects of Algonquin and Iroquois culture, publishing research using Microsoft Word and then copying and pasting their essays into Wordle to analyze their own writing. • Fourth graders creating PowerPoint presentations to highlight their Digital Memory Box collections. • Fifth graders publishing essays using Microsoft Word vividly depicting gifts they wish they could give to the world.
Publishing Proficiently • Kindergarten and First ABCya Keyboarding Zoo Focus on using two hands Publish several pieces • Second Dance Mat Typing ABCya Keyboarding Challenge Use yarn as visual reminder to use two hands Posture • Third Dance Mat Typing Highlight Word Count in Word • Fourth and Fifth One Minute Typing Test Nimble Fingers Free Typing Lessons
Collaboration Experiences • First graders communicating with author Robert Munch using the online form at his site. • Second graders participating in a Read Every Day webcast with Taylor Swift presented by Scholastic. Students celebrating reading and learning respect • for another community by participating in a Read Across the Planet videoconference. Classes compose and share a class presentation highlighting reading in some creative way during the videoconferences. • Third through fifth graders participating in an interactive webcast with the National Constitution Center. Students communicating in a free videoconference • with NASA.
ELA Common Core: Writing 8.Research to Build and Present Knowledge-Gather relevant information from print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. • Third graders using various websites to locate information about Roberto Clemente, paraphrase, and take brief notes about him as an extension to a recent Journeys selection. • Third graders researching various countries and then creating a tour in Google Earth. • In collaboration with the library media specialist, fourth graders gathering relevant information from digital sources, taking notes, categorizing information, and creating a list of sources used as they learn about nutrition. • In collaboration with library media specialist, fifth graders conducting research to locate information regarding the 5 themes of geography as related to a certain area in the Western hemisphere.
ELA Common Core: Language 4 . Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on current grade level reading by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate. • Second graders using glossaries and beginning dictionaries such as Little Explorers Picture Dictionary to clarify the meaning for words and phrases. • Third graders using glossaries or beginning dictionaries such as Word Central, to determine and clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases. • Fourth graders consulting print and digital reference materials such as digital thesauruses, dictionaries and glossaries to clarify the meaning of words as they research Native Americans.
World Education Games • Free online Literacy, Math and Science international competition • Provides live results to teacher and performance data • Interactive world-wide during practice and competition • Optional Computer, Reading, Enrichment and Library opportunity • Home-School Connection
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