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Generation IM:The 21st Century Learner in the Advanced Academics
Classroom
Ian A. Belanger, Endorsed Teacher of the Gifted
Cracker Trail Elementary4th Grade HAART
I’M A NERD.
A Brief History of Technology in the Classroom
DON’T ASK YOUR STUDENTS TO
“UNPLUG!”
Hold up your cell phones!
Today’s cell phone is:• Telephone• Text Messenger• Still Camera• Video Camera• Video Player• GPS Device• Podcaster• MP3/Streaming Music
Player• WiFi Internet Device• Powerful Applications…• More, more, more…
Should we really ignore a device this
powerful??
How do YOU use PowerPoint?
There are 300 millionPowerPoint users
in the world*
*estimated
They do 30 millionpresentations
each day*
*estimated
About a millionpresentations are
going on right now*
*estimated
50% of them areunbearable*
*estimated
Are you presenting, or making meaning?
Technology integration should be natural, easy,
and regular!
Interactive White Boards
Children should be interacting with your IWB. If you are only using to show PowerPoint, you wasted $1,000 of tax-payer’s money!
I recently heard a principal say: “If your [IWB] is not filthy from fingerprints at the end of the day, you need to find more ways to get children up and interacting.”
My GEN-IM ClassroomOther Digital Tools I Use• MP3 Players• Document Camera• USB Blue SnowFlake
Microphone• Smart AirLiner (Bluetooth
Wireless Slate)• Digital Cameras
Personally I have added:• HD Flip Cam• iPod Touch
Regular/Reccomended SBHC Classroom Setup
•Teacher Laptop & Docking station•802.11n Wireless Access Point•4 PC/WinXP Student Workstations•Audio Enhancement•SmartBoard/Projector
Audio Enhancement
An in-ceiling speaker system that makes every seat a “front row seat.”
My GEN-IM ClassroomOnline Resources• Class Web site• Google.com
– Docs– Blogger
• Twitter.com• Weebly.com
Programs you should try!• PhotoStory 3• Movie Maker
SBHC Purchased Tools
•United Streaming (now known as Discovery Streaming)
•BrainPop•Newsbank•Encyclopedia Britannica•Atomic Learning•Teaching and Learning Center•Online Textbooks
Easy to do Projects with your Students
• iPoem – Digital Projects for Poetry Month
• iPod for Prize (collaboration with PTO)
http://cte-ipoem.blogspot.com/
Link to Eli’s
Podcasting• Audio or Video that can be
played on your iPod• Subscribe in iTunes• Easy and FREE to record, and host
with FirstClass
• Application– Oral Vocabulary– Reader’s Theatre– Announcements– Lit Circles, Book Reviews– Facts to study, reviews– Spotlight on…– Videos of
presentations andprojects
Moodle
• Moodle is a FREE Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). • It is a Free web
application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
http://Progress.highlands.k12.fl.us
•Excellent complement to a face-to-face course•Moodle is social in nature: blogs, wikis, polls, assignment tracking, etc…