Integrating technology into nutrition education

1. Integrating technology into nutrition education By Noah Mickey-Colman, M. Ed. Academic Interventionist – Los Amigos Technology Academy, Sunnyside Unified School District

2. You don’t have to be a “techie” to integrate technology into your nutrition education With a few simple tools and a willingness to try new things anyone can begin to integrate more technology into their nutrition education lessons.

3. Ways to use technology with nutrition education • Student Engagement • Web 2.0 Tools • Collaborative Documents • Mobile Devices

4. When using technology remember a few things • Try it first (twice!) • Plan well • Set clear expectations and rules • Handling • Behavior • Responsibility • Appropriateness • Enforce your rules • Be open to giving up some control • Student centered learning • Be open to learning from your students • Try it again the day you are going to do it • Have fun and learn together

5. How long is your average student’s attention span? Smalbiztrends.com How do you keep your students engaged?

6. One great tool for student engagement and instant feedback is poll everywhere • Student engagement • Keeps students responsive to lesson • Holds them accountable for staying engaged (number of responses) • They like it! • Instant feedback • Receive data on student’s understanding of lesson • Take polls, give pop quizzes, quick check for understanding, votes • Anonymous

7. Polleverywhere offers two types of questions • Multiple choice • You create the question • You create all the answers • Students choose from the answers you provide and you get instant graphical data • Open Ended • You create the question • Students type or text their own answers Set expectations Set expectations and answer requirements

8. What you will see

9. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

10. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

11. How to create a poll in 3 minutes • http://vimeo.com/42658303

12. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

13. Common Web 2.0 tools • Facebook • Twitter • Word Clouds • Blogs • Podcasts • Wikis • Interactive documents

14. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

15. Two examples • Twitter • Students tweet information relating to projects or record-keeping • Food journal • Activity journal • Pedometer counts • Facebook • Create a Facebook page related to nutrition education • Let/assign the responsibility of making posts to your students Be sure to get parent permission and go over expectations ahead of time Be sure to get parent permission and go over expectations ahead of time

16. Why use either of these tools with your students? • Teach kids responsible use of technology and digital citizenship • Teach kids technology skills vital to survival in our evolving world of technology • Do something other than a poster! • Increase student engagement • Increase student motivation • Shift record-keeping to your students = reduce your workload • Have fun and learn something yourself!

17. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

18. Collaborative documents • Gives users ability to create, edit, and publish documents in real time via web connection. • Allows multiple users to work on one document together in person or off site • Allows different people to see someone’s work without the necessity of emails, attachments, or physical proximity • Free if you use google docs

19. Collaborative documents • Google docs • Free • Online storage • Sharing features – own, edit, view • Word processing, presentation tool, spreadsheet, draw/paint • Education accounts can be obtained on a district or classroom level

20. Collaborative documents ideas • Use spreadsheet to record an eating or activity journal • Can track calories consumed or calories burned • Graph these individually or together on same graph • Can do individual students and share it with teacher for review or can do whole class and see whole class data on one spreadsheet and graph • Can do pedometer recording on spreadsheet and then graph steps • http://bit.ly/uannspread

21. Collaborative documents ideas • Use presentation to create a collaborative presentation on nutrition or activity • Create groups of students • Research a nutrition or physical activity concept • Students create collaborative presentations (powerpoints) that they share with you for review and editing • Create a collaborative class virtual cookbook complete with nutrition facts • http://bit.ly/uannpres

22. Mobile Devices What are examples of mobile devices that people use commonly?

23. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

24. A mobile device is anything that is portable and has digital capabilities Why is this so darn important when it comes to teaching our students?

25. think of all the possibilities mobile devices allow us in education • Most kids have access to one if you don’t have them at your school • This gives you the option of a one to one or almost one to one classroom • This allows you to think outside the box and expand on projects you can do in the classroom

26. Multimedia Food journals • Have kids use iPods, smart phones, tablets or digital cameras to take pictures of the food they are eating over a period of time. • They then use those photos and that data to do research on the nutrition facts. • They can turn that into a presentation, narrated movie, graphs and charts, etc.

27. Multimedia activity journals • Have kids use devices to take record video or take pictures of themselves, classmates, friends, community members taking part in physical activity. • They then use those artifacts to create a multimedia presentation about physical activity. • Themes can include: • What are different types of physical activity? • How many calories do different types burn? • Teach a new physical activity to others. • Any ideas of your own?

28. Digital scavenger hunts • A new twist on the original • No longer writing down a name of item or collecting them • Use device to take photo of different items • Show photos to teacher to complete • Or create presentation and share or show it to class or teacher • Can use QR codes to design each step of it or students can create their own • Post each QR code next to items in hunt • As they figure out what each item is they discover QR code • Scan it and receive next clue

29. Film psa’s • Students can film public service announcements related to healthy eating • Create teams • Introduce what PSA’s are, watch examples, critique • Select themes for own PSA’s • Research • Storyboard • Film • Edit • Publish • Vote (optional) • See lesson plan handout

30. Film news programs and broadcast at school • How many of your schools do daily announcements? • Who does them? • Do you use video or is it just audio?

31. Film news programs and broadcast at school • You can have your students do a short segment each week for the daily announcements • Record video giving a nutrition tip related to school lunch • Record video giving physical activity tips • Record video doing general nutrition tips or nutrition education • Can upload videos to file hosting sites like schooltube or youtube if your district allows it. • Send link to teachers to watch when it fits into their lessons or everyone watches first thing in morning

32. Reminder - When using technology remember a few things • Try it first (twice!) • Plan well • Set clear expectations and rules • Handling • Behavior • Responsibility • Appropriateness • Enforce your rules • Be open to giving up some control • Student centered learning • Be open to learning from your students • Try it again the day you are going to do it • Have fun and learn together

33. Resources to explore • https://www.facebook.com/NutritionEdandTech • http://docs.google.com/ • https://www.polleverywhere.com/ • https://bitly.com/

34. Contact information • noahm@susd12.org or noahmickeycolman@gmail.com • Bit.ly/edtechmc • Twitter.com/noahmickey • Youtube.com/noahmctech • www.linkedin.com/in/noahmc