What are some possibilities we have as a faculty

Think about an assessment that is coming up soon that you might replace with a more modern one

HOW DO WE REPLACE SOMETHING WE DO WITH SOMETHING BETTER?

  • use for writing prompts
  • example the word reptile – start to determine characteristics
  • Stereotyping- put in words for Islam, Hinduism, Christianity- start to notice and articulate the commonalities and differences
  • ****Wolframalpha.com- great for math!!!!- breaks down formulas and shows them in its various forms- all kinds of computational knowledge
  • this will distort for statistics
  • Gapminder- incredible- can employ all sorts of data
  • Example- countries over time, watch for a jump or a drop in a country’s placement over time, go to Google timeline and look for the event(s),
  • VLM Virtual Learning Magnets. We want the children to set up virtual learning experiences
  • NESA- Virtual Science Fair
  • A trailer for next years’ students- as opposed to summarize what you learned
  • A screenplay as an alternative to personal narrative
  • Instead of writing a report about Julius Caesar to a Facebook page- his social network that didn’t work out, key dates, writings, events- If we ask someone to write they will now have more to draw from as opposed to rote memorizing of form
  • Sign language- to increase attention, the inherent value
  • i.e., skype with students in China because we’re doing global
  • Use actual chemical reactions to demonstrate to the class (Not dangerous)- a virtual chemistry class that does this might actually already exist
  • A digital story with the narration as a personal narrative
  • A tourist guide created in Google Maps with points of interest summaries written out
  • Google Lit Trips for High School
  • Student developed worldwide news service
  • Ebooks – have kids create them and upload- upper grades for lower grades, the notion of digital story telling including imagery, as a way of rendering and sharing experiences
  • Write the script as if you were in a museum wearing earphones- can be adapted to other situations
  • Memoir in a science context, “memoir of me” – I started as a subterranean floor, “My sedimentary Life” (this is real cross curricular)
  • A research project as a wiki
  • Live binders- open source, allows one to store all kinds of information- good for kids to use to organize information
  • Visual Thesaurus
  • Vocabgrabber
  • Students can create their own lists here
  • Students own the learning
  • Wordle- to create word clouds
  • Instant Audience Feedback – a place to run polls with texting

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