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Using Think in Collaborative Student Projects

Using Think.com in Collaborative Student Projects. Steven Caringella. Presenter Bio. Steven Caringella scaringe@musd.org Fourth Grade Teacher and Tech Coordinator at Zanker, Milpitas Unified Part-time instructor, Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. Want to learn more?.

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Using Think in Collaborative Student Projects

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  1. Using Think.com in Collaborative Student Projects Steven Caringella

  2. Presenter Bio • Steven Caringella • scaringe@musd.org • Fourth Grade Teacher and Tech Coordinator at Zanker, Milpitas Unified • Part-time instructor, Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College

  3. Want to learn more? • Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College in Los Altos, CA (Northern Cal) • Inexpensive, hands-on technology courses. • $29 reg., $13 per unit. • Face to face and online

  4. Classes I teach at KCI • April 26 Internet Projects for Educators • May 17 Blogs and Wikis in the Classroom • June 21 Think.com

  5. Krause Center for Innovation • Krause Center • http://www.krauseinnovationcenter.org/kci/ • To register, go to: • http://www.foothill.edu/cfi/linc/preregister.php

  6. Presentation Overview • What is Think.com? • Live web demo • How can Think.com be used to support and enhance inquiry-based cross-curricular projects?

  7. What is Think.com? • Think.com is a password-protected, student-safe online learning community. • https://www.think.com/en_us

  8. What is Think.com? • Allows students to publish, blog, share documents, communicate, and collaborate. • Free access provided to schools by the Oracle Education Foundation.

  9. How to Access Think.com • Teachers at accredited primary and secondary schools can apply. • Oracle Education Foundation requires site principal’s approval.

  10. How to Access Think.com • If you are the first at your site to use Think.com, you become the site administrator. • You can then add other teachers at your site.

  11. Online safety • Teachers who use Think.com with their students must monitor student content. • Teachers must teach students how to stay safe online. • Must have parental consent.

  12. Think.com and Student Projects • Think.com is ideal for use in inquiry-based, cross-curricular student projects. • Environmental Concerns in the Community • What Makes Me Unique?

  13. Think.com and Standards • Think.com can be used to help students meet California content standards. • Think.com meets ISTE National Technology Standards. • http://cnets.iste.org/students/

  14. Inquiry-Based Learning • A learner-centered process that begins with questioning and investigating. • Children have a desire to discover and finds things out. • Exploring, asking questions, searching for new understandings.

  15. Project-Based Learning • Students investigate a real-world problem, working collaboratively. • They use technology tools, gain skills and knowledge, and end with a learning product.

  16. Environmental Concerns • Students used Think.com during research, for reflection, to communite and collaborate, and as an eportfolio.

  17. ECIC Overview • Multi-classroom: Students from three Northern California schools collaborated using Think.com. • Cross-curricular: One school focused on science and two schools focused on language arts.

  18. Essential Question • How do we become aware of environmental concerns and how can we make a difference?

  19. Communicating With Think.com • Students from all three schools wrote bios about themselves, then “met” each other online. • Throughout the project, students read, reviewed, and evaluated each others’ work.

  20. Collaborating With Think.com • Almaden Fourth graders wrote letters and posters in response to the River Glen newsletters that they viewed and discussed. • http://ourenvironmentproject.org/almadenschool/FellowsStudentWork2.htm

  21. Collaborating With Think.com • Fifth and Seventh grade students included the Fourth graders’ water quality data in their research.

  22. Collaborating With Think.com • Zanker Fifth graders created web resource lists during research that were shared by team members for the essays and the PSAs.

  23. Reflective Blogging • Throughout the stages of the project, students reflected on their learning process by writing reflective blog entries.

  24. Think.com as eportfolio • Throughout the project, students uploaded finished learning products, reflected on them, and received teacher and peer review and feedback.

  25. What Makes Me Unique? • Multi-classroom collaborative project. • Participants include teachers and students from two middle schools and two elementary schools. • http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=10446

  26. What Makes Me Unique? • Students explore their dominant learning styles, using the Multiple Intelligences theory, and apply this knowledge to how they approach learning.

  27. What Makes Me Unique? • Cross-classroom partners were formed, and the project organized in the Think.com project pages.

  28. What Makes Me Unique? • Students use Think.com to post learning and reflections, and respond to their project partners at each stage of the project, including group audio podcasts as a culminating activty.

  29. Think.com Project Ideas • Think.com provides project ideas that can be used in the K-8 classroom, that meet ISTE standards. • http://www.think.com/iste

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