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Classroom Management

Classroom Management. & Technology. Educational Collaborators Elizabeth Helfant Mary Lynn. Classroom Management & Technology. Agenda Presenters Introduction Background The experts Analog vs. Digital Classroom starters Practice Full group Scenario discussions Small group Wrap Up

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Classroom Management

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  1. Classroom Management & Technology Educational Collaborators Elizabeth Helfant Mary Lynn

  2. Classroom Management & Technology • Agenda • Presenters • Introduction • Background • The experts • Analog vs. Digital • Classroom starters • Practice • Full group • Scenario discussions • Small group • Wrap Up • Software • Evaluation

  3. Presenters

  4. Classroom Management & Technology • Introduction • Beginning teacher parallel • Anticipation • Considerations • Room arrangement • Monitoring many activities • Link classroom management to instruction • Note taking sheet

  5. Let the fun begin! Most important thing in classroom management How to monitor students

  6. Analogue to Digital Comparison • No Laptop • Not Charged • I forgot to save • Hard drive crashed • No Book • Out of Paper • I lost it in my room somewhere • Someone stole my backpack!

  7. Playing Games • Chatting • Reading Other Websites • Forgot to Get an Account • Forgot Password Paper Tic-tac-toe Passing Notes Doing other HW Forgot to bring permission slip/physical/ registration

  8. Starting class • Ideas for starting class • Why this is important • Possible starters

  9. Starters • Use Moodle to provide starter • You Tube Video • Forum Question • Use Wallwisher • Wordle Guess the Text or Speech • Answer Question in Google Forms

  10. Full Group Role Playing • Spur of the moment • Small group investigation • Individual work

  11. Spur of the moment News item directly related to a class topic and students bring it up in class.

  12. Small Group Investigation Students divided into small group to gather background information on a new topic.

  13. Individual Assignment Using web resources, students demonstrate understanding of classroom concept.

  14. Scenarios

  15. Progression • In two weeks • Teacher centric • In two months • Less teacher centric • More time to students • In four months • Student driven

  16. Lesson 1 = 2 weeks in • Reading a Related Current Events Article (on Moodle for Student Access • When you are done, please answer the discussion question on the forum in Moodle • Pull up discussion and have class discussion • Ask certain kids to elaborate on their post • Point out who is missing and needs to add • For Homework Find another related article and be ready to share with class tomorrow

  17. Lesson 1B- 2 months in • Set up a Diigo Group and Have students join group for HW • Link to article on Moodle- Students will read for 20 minutes and post answers to discussion questions supplied by teacher • Class discussion • Put in groups and give each group a related article with a different perspective/different related topic • Create a class Google presentation for each group to summarize the issues in their article on one slide • Share back out with class EXTRA – Use a timer to stay on task

  18. Lesson 1C- 4 Months In • Read article in diigo group • Discuss in class • Small group activity as in Lesson 1B • Students will put an opinion or reflect on their learning on their own blog for HW • Students will find another article and save to Diigo group with annotations – Start a discussion in Diigo

  19. Extras in Lesson 1C • Students must write evaluation of site in Diigo to help them think critically about reliability of site • Use a custom search engine to restrict search • Force use of other search engines • Cuil.com • Google other options – Timeline/Wonderwheel

  20. Math or Science Tweaks • Pull Data from article and enter on Google form • Analyze data with excel

  21. Lesson 2A- 2 weeks in • Moodle tells kids what to read for homework and asks them to write down 4 new vocab words as they read • Class begins with each student asked to write a vocab sentence with their word on WallWisher • Discussion of reading occurs

  22. Lesson 2B- 2 months in • Moodle tells kids what to read for homework and asks them to write down 4 new vocab words as they read • Class begins with each student asked to write a vocab sentence with their word on WallWisher • Discussion of reading occurs • Students are put in pairs and asked to convert several scenes to a different time period and location using Google docs • Students act out their scenes for class

  23. Lesson 2C- 4 months in • Moodle tells kids what to read for homework and asks them to write down 4 new vocab words as they read • Class begins with each student asked to write a vocab sentence with their word on WallWisher • Students look up words on Wordnik • Discussion of reading occurs • Scene is put in wordle to visualize meaning • Students are put in pairs and asked to convert several scenes to a different time period and location • Students act out their scenes for class • HW – students reflect on blog or write an alternative ending on the blog – others will comment later

  24. Lesson 3A- 2 weeks in • Students are asked to find a picture that represents the topic at hand and to post it on a class wiki page or in Ning (Good place to show creative commons licensing and compfight.com search) • Students explain why they choose the image. • Class goes on as planned

  25. Lesson 3B- 2 months in • Students are asked to join a flickr group for HW the night before and to take images with cell phones and email to flickr group • Students explain why they chose the image and use notes to make annotations. • Students comment constructively on each others image selection and try to advance the thoughts

  26. Lesson 3C- 4 months in • Students are asked to select several images from creative commons licensed work that are related to the topic being studied and to bring them to class • Images of math in nature or in architecture • Images that give visual meaning to a poem • Images that show the effects of climate change • Images that tell the story of a historical conflict • Students are told to get in small groups and use Google docs to create the story board and narration around the pictures they have selected. They select images from the group pool • Students create a photo-essay or a Voicethread • Share with class

  27. Differentiation in Groups • Require group members to identify the common task but each take away a different task • Different areas to research – wiki book • Different responsibilities – video documentary (music, narration, script, artwork) • Grouping by topic with groups having different topics • Groups create a segment of a podcast • Group size such that everyone has something to do

  28. Final Thoughts Software – NetControl 2 Video How to keep learning Questions?

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