My students are innovative! They love to work on any activities that involve critical thinking skills. As their teacher, I am challenged to create a real-world learning environment that fosters higher-order thinking, collaboration, communication, and teamwork. We have a supportive community and strive to provide as many diverse learning opportunities for our students as we can.
Our learning environment is blended between the physical and digital worlds.
My students can navigate both of these worlds independently, but what happens when they need to integrate their learning? They often use online collaboration tools while sitting right next to each other, which is not conducive to facilitating the conversation and collaboration that many projects require.
My Project
The goal of this project is to seamlessly blend the digital and physical worlds. In our school we have many tools that we can use individually including laptops and iPads, but we do not have many resources that can allow the students to share their screens when working collaboratively. I want to set up two collaboration stations that will each include a TV, an Apple TV, a Google Chromecast, and HDMI cables. These connections will allow students and group members to project their laptop computer, tablet, or other device onto the large screen monitor. Groups will be able to sit down around a table and connect their device(s) to the screen and share their work with each other.
In just a click, students will be able to switch which computer or iPad screen is being shared.
Having these new collaboration stations in our classroom will help with our journey to blended learning. Imagine students being able to share what they see on their screens with others. The conversation that students will be able to have about their work will help to create a community of 21st century learners.
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