GOING DIGITAL WITH RESEARCH

Jane Hudson, Media CoordinatorDeborah Icard, Tech Teacher

Cloverleaf Elementary

Have you published some student work this year on your website?

Have you recorded student voices in a project that you shared online?

Have you used video to capture and share what you are doing in your classroom?

Are you looking for ways to:

Integrate technology? Align with common core? Engage students? Move thinking higher up Blooms?

… then Digital Research Projects are for you!

And your students will love them!

And your parents will think you’re a superstar!

What are you waiting for?

Technology is time-consuming, messy, and chaotic

Find a fellow-teacher to go in with you Don’t google … use NCWISEOWL Let media person guide research process Let tech person train you & your students

Formula for Success:

Take classroom content and extend it Let students personalize it Do simple research Write notes and save pictures Create using web 2.0 tools Present and publish

Examples of student work

Animoto Photo Story Blabberize

“We remember what we do.” Common core calls for short, frequent

research so students become familiar with a process …

Big 6 and Super 3 Digital Ethics and Copyright

Show examples of:

What’s important about DIGITAL?

New literacies Lets students communicate through

pictures, voice, video, and text Differentiates so all can be successful Creativity is at top of Bloom’s

Examples of student work:

Prezi Voicethread

Are students really learning?

Check off: Marzano’s strategies are research-based Common Core includes digital literacy State and national info/tech standards Bloom’s

Are students really learning?

Check off: Marzano’s strategies are research-based Common Core includes digital literacy State and national info/tech standards Bloom’s

Are students really learning?

Check off: Marzano’s strategies are research-based Common Core includes digital literacy State Essential Standards in Info/Tech Bloom’s

Are students really learning?

Check off: Marzano’s strategies are research-based Common Core includes digital literacy State and national info/tech standards Bloom’s

Use what you have … to the fullest!

Don’t let your technology go to waste: Laptop carts, ipads, classroom

computers, lab

Next parent conference, have more media than you did last time …

Show what your students know, understand, and can do … it will amaze you!

Goodbye and Good Luck

We hope to: Challenge you – you can do this Inspire you – to let students create

digitally Persuade you – it’s worth the effort