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Last year I was invited to attend a technology retreat at the Mohonk Mountain House in upstate NY. We were exposed to various technology tools, innovations, and how educators use them to enhance the curriculum in their own classrooms.
During the retreat I was wondering what could I bring back to my classroom that would benefit my students. The skills I wanted to target were the development of academic language, conversational skills, writing, reading and typing skills. This is when I was introduced to Classkick.
Classkick is an application that should be used in pairs. I constructed lessons that would integrate the common core standards and the target skills I wanted to develop.
Why Innovation in Technology?
Why Innovation in Technology?
(What is the purpose of the project? How does it fit into your classroom curriculum, school-wide tech initiative, etc?)
(What is the purpose of the project? How does it fit into your classroom curriculum, school-wide tech initiative, etc?)
This project was created to help our students with academic language, promote higher level thinking and oral language responses.
Why use digital resources?
Why use digital resources?
- What roles do digital resources play in our mission?
We use classkick and book creator to support the content that push for academic discourse. I design the traditional lessons based on the four modalities which is reading, listening, writing and speaking. Yet we use the tool to engaged students to have autonomy and be student driven. To engage students in academic conversation using academic vocabulary. Also to support oral language development and promote writing responses using academic language.
- What can digital resources do for the culturally and linguistically diverse community that we serve?
In order to help build academic conversation with our students, 41% of whom have IEPs, 31% of which have speech and language processing delays and 22% are multi-language learners. Our school has worked together to use the CAT tool to help guide our instruction on helping elementary age students begin to have meaningful conversations where they listen to and build upon each other's ideas.
It is crucial for early learners it crucial for students to be engaged in language development. Intentional designing lessons that engages students promotes those crucial skills need to develop students in oral language responses. Digital tools engage students to use the four modalities and promote language development.
Social Studies Content
Academic Language and Sentence Structure
Developing Metacognition, Autonomy, Student Driven
Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking Skills
The Process
The Process
1. Thinking of a type of technology that would be interactive, engaging and aligned with common core/ units of study.
2. Thinking of lessons that would promote academic language and conversations.
3. Introducing Classkick and its functions to the whole class.
3. Modeling the functions of the pages and how to interact with the activities.
4. Modeling the process of using the application many times.
5. Giving the students time limits to log in and start working independently.
6. Getting students used to sharing their group work on the SmartBoard.
7. Asking students how to assess each others' work constructively during share time.
Page 1: This page presents the essential question, picture of the topic, and a link to the video they are going to watch.
Page 2: This page presents the essential question, sentence frame and vocabulary bank. On this page they will record their answers to the essential question.
Page 3: This page is the writing response.
Page 4: This page is typically a graphic organizer.
Page 5: In this page they will draw a picture related to essential question.
Class 304 used Classkick to support the social studies curriculum. We used videos linked to the social studies scope and sequence. These visual supports helped us analyze information in an interactive format. The students became experts on using Classkick, they enjoyed learning and assessing their conversations.
Assessments
Assessments
- After working on their task, students made sure they had done everything that was needed on each page because they would be sharing their work with the class.
- Since they knew they would be presenting their work on the smartboard, they were held accountable of their work.
- As a group share, the teacher would show the work of each partnership and present their work to the whole group.
- Students assessed each others' work by offering constructive feedback.
Scope and Sequence Social Studies Standards
Scope and Sequence Social Studies Standards
- 1.4 People create governments in order to create peace and establish order. Laws are created to protect the rights and define the responsibilities of individuals and groups.
- Local, state and national levels of government exist to create and enforce laws, and help resolve conflicts
- Governments have varied roles and responsibilities
- Citizens help to form their government
- People elect officials to represent them
Below I have attached a lesson I have for my fellow colleagues.
Below I have attached a lesson I have for my fellow colleagues.
Below I have attached a lesson I will do for my class.
Below I have attached a lesson I will do for my class.
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