Anthony Carabache
http://www.anthonycarabache.com/
This teacher has been involved in technology in his classroom for over 15 years. He makes great points about integration of technology in the classroom as well as different teaching strategies, I only included a sample!
Creating an Authentic Classroom. https://medium.com/inspired-ideas-prek-12/creating-an-authentic-classroom-bd3e7e5f35a0
The Day Authentic Learning Came to My Classroom https://medium.com/@heinemann/the-day-authentic-learning-came-to-my-classroom-bbb0fcb9f012
EMPOWER your students.
Let them have choice in their learning!
Connecting to students’ authentic information and computer technology interests and experiences
Using technology in the Classroom
Conversations open up the world of your student’s mind and thought processes.
Try Todaysmeet.com
The Room Tools allow you to save and print a transcript of the chat that can serve one of two purposes: To provide documentation of learning or to provide evidence of misuse.
A teacher can open a chat room for one hour, two hours, eight hours, one day, one week, one month or one year.
Conversation is where the teacher learns most about their students.
Create a blog to use within the classroom.
Before you consider using any technology in the classroom ask yourself:
“What can I do more efficiently?”
“Where do I lose time?”
"What aspects of life in the classroom take you away from expectation, instruction and conversation?"
"How can you incorporate more conversation?"
Create an online classroom space to
organize information for students.
It's ok to try and fail. Give yourself time to learn.
KEEP LEARNING! THE MOST IMPORTANT PART!
Authentic-Based Learning Environment: shift in curriculum to Project and Problem Based Learning.
Students are identifying and solving real-world problems.
Have a flexible learning space.
Look at student understanding as a whole, not just mastery skills.
Reflect, Reflect, Reflect! Document their learning and let them reflect on it, as well as the learning of others in the classroom. Create a learning community.
Learning is across the curriculum, not just geared towards one subject.
Students are the CENTER of the classroom.
We need to stop underestimating children!
Let them collaborate.
Encourage them to make SENSE of their learning.
Give them PLENTY of time to explore the answers.
Let them ask PLENTY of Questions
