David Warlick said, "We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world." What a true statement. This tool needs to be accessed by all of my students, frequently.
Students come to school excited to learn and stretch their minds.
The community is a supportive and positive area. My 3rd-graders backgrounds and experiences are varied and many. The academic levels are just as diverse. I pull small groups to work to support levels of performance, understanding of concepts, and skill groups. I work with many different groups in a day. I love what I do and the students I work with.
My Project
The iPads will be used for 2 main purposes, but not limited to these activities. The first is a center to reinforce concepts taught and the second is to expand our learning into the area of coding and programming.
My students are excited to use iPads for independent activities to reinforce learned concepts and, they are also very excited to learn how to use the iPads to code and program robots.
My students love to learn if a device is integrated into it. The iPads will be used to reinforce taught concepts. For example, students will be able to use the iPad to access books at their reading level. They read the book to a partner and talk about what they have read. At the next center they can write and draw about their reading using evidence from the text.
Second, I want to engage students in learning how to code and program. We have some robots that are available to us. The iPads will be used to code in specific commands. After the program is complete, students are able to have a visual demonstration of their coding efforts.
The iPads will encourage students to explore and experiment with programming and provide a positive foundation for continual enjoyment in the sciences, math, and literacy.
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