If you were Thinking this you are in the new “Flat World”!!

1. If you were Thinking this you are in the new “Flat World”!!

2. What is disruptive in class?

4. Youtube is full of distracting videos that will cause students to lose focus. For some reason, kids would just rather watch some kid ride their bike into a pool than listen to a teacher.

5. Cell Phones

6. Biggest Nuisance • Biggest distraction because they can be used without computers. • Kids can cheat by texting answers to others.

7. Music Websites

8. Kids will be looking for more music to download or have head phones on listening to it. • Very easy to tune out teacher.

9. Mason W. Concentration ADHD is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder.

10. ADHD Studies • ADHD Music Studies • Some people use music to keep them focused on the topic they are trying to focus on • People who have ADHD will sometimes use music to block other things going on around them. • For example, if you are a person with ADHD and you are in class and you are working on an assignment while the rest of the class is acting up it is harder for you to pay attention. So you grab your ipod and start playing music. Then you can’t hear all of the commotion going on around you, and you are able to focus on what is more important.

11. Planning Cell Phones Cell phones usually have a calendar that you can use for planning. You can also set whatever you need to remember for that day on your wallpaper. There is also a website called dial2do.com that you can set up on your computer, that sends messages to remind you things you need to do that day.

12. Collaboration -Students can collaborate in the classroom with their cell phones by uploading video tutorials for the class they are in by using skpe. Modern cell phones offer a variety of capabilities, which are being used effectively by educators in different schools to support curricular learning objectives and boost student achievement.

13. Skyping for Collaboration Do you wish your class could learn elsewhere from the inside of your classroom? Well now they can; with skype you can connect your students to anyone, anywhere, anytime so they can learn what you are trying to teach them. Skype is the tool for having class outside of your classroom

14. Ask yourself is this really the untraditional way of the classroom?

15. Pro Amateur Idea

16. Students teaching not teachers • New ideas • Helping for the future

17. Skype The New Way of Group Learning

18. India To America

19. Connection

20. Music In the Classroom What is the Problem with it ?

21. The “Ups” • Concentration • Sticking to the program and not getting off task

22. The “Downs” • Zoning out

23. Have you ever had a Idea? But you were only able to tell only a small assortment of people?

24. Wall Wisher is the Answer !

25. Ways to use • Ideas from every student • Teacher is seeing every students answer • No more raise your hand for the answer

26. Pole Every Where: Activity

27. Overall Thought • See what the overall thought is from the class • See the rare ideas

28. Organization

31. iGoogle Facts • Online personal website for kids. • Allows people to schedule events on the google calendar. • Look at the weather and see what time it is. • Also add games.

33. Toodle-do Facts • Online to-do list. • Can get it on your cell phone, email, calendar, and in your web browser.

34. Twitter • How We use twitter to connect • What ways we could use it ?

35. Skype • The Opportunities • The Evidence

36. Blogging on Wiki Flint River Blog The History of the Flint The Flint River has a lot in store for us to learn about it. There are so many things out there that people have not found yet, and it is waiting for us right this minute. I am in the history group, and I am going to help video and take pictures on the project. This is the school's first time doing this, and we are hoping that it will go smooth for everything. My group is going to interview some people who know much about the river, and what they have found along its banks. We are also going to… Continue Added by Mason W. on May 8, 2009 at 10:38am — 1 Comment I was a member of the history group in the Flint River Immersion Project. We took a boat ride five miles along the river and observed the surroundings along the banks of river. We also went to Mr. Kenneth Deese’s river house and examined his fossil collection and other treasures from the river that he has found over the years from diving and exploring the river. The other person we interviewed was Mr. Glynn Cox. He also had a collection that was really similar to Mr. Deese’s. Mr. Cox also had a great knowledge of the river’s history.