Learner-informed knowledge is a prerequisite for integrating technology in an inclusive way so that students from all communities can effectively use it to achieve their goals.
Akili had the honor of being featured in Discovery Ed's Master Class series. Scholars were introduced to augmented reality - technology that layers virtual elements onto the natural environment - to explore what life might be like on mars and to collaborate to come up with the pros and cons of living on earth mars.
Mr. Awogboro's interview.
Mr. Jenkins' interview.
Guiding Questions:
How has technology access impacted student learning at your campus?
How are students given voice and choice to demonstrate how they leverage technology to learn?
The VILS grant and the constant access that it provides has been invaluable throughout the course of the pandemic. Our teachers are always evolving their practice and finding new ways to transform and extend learning in ways that weren't possible before.
The ways students are given voice to demonstrate how they leverage technology to learn is ever changing. With the TIM, observations, and VILS learning experiences our staff is working hard to go from entry level to transformation.
Mr. Atkins science classes is fine examples of building student confidence, and collaboration skills.
Mr. Atkin' Science class working on a collaborative assignment.
"During Trimester 1, Students in Bethune-Cookman read the graphic novel adaptation of "Monster." The novel is told from the perspective of the main character Steve Harmon who is accused of taking part in a murder. The majority of the novel is the trial, which explores the different character's points of view of what happened surrounding the murder. In this final project, students were tasked with choosing a short part of the story and retelling it from another character's point of view (other than the main character). Students had to weave together their skills in summarizing, sequencing events, understanding the details of the events, and writing from different narrative perspectives. Students had to set the background, create characters that had a likeness to the characters in the graphic novel, add gestures, facial expressions, and dialogue to their characters. To create the product they used a program called "Pixton" which has a free and paid version. These were created using solely the free version *with a few hacks we figured out :) *" - Ms. Putnam
Final prjoct by Trechelle Abron.
Guiding Questions:
What are the needs of your community and how are you meeting them?
A goal for our network next year is to provide more family technology training as outlined in this Family Engagement document.
Are the systems and processes accessible for multilingual families and students? If not, please explain your next steps.
Families can request resources in different languages from the website. I will be checking in the webmaster to inquire about possible next steps.
How do you offer choice and voice to your families?
There is a plan in the works for family tech classes and Q&A Zooms with their coaches. See the Family Engagement page to see our plan!
How are you promoting diversity and inclusion when selecting members of your student tech team?