Week 4 - 1:1 iPad rollout- Digital Learning Day
Did you know that it was Digital Learning Day nationwide? PBS offered a fantastic opportunity to connect educators. I stepped up my enthusiasm for digital learning by telling students to SMASH APPS! and tweeted class totals (#dlday). Smashing immediately connotes images of destruction but according to my twitter community it simply means using more than one app to create something digital. My students had opportunities to using sketching apps with text apps, work flow apps with platform apps and as an added incentive, would be allowed to use class time for gaming or bonus points on past assessment scores. Guess which incentive won out? Our school launched our Follow Your Dreams project during DLD week. Every week a senior or alumni of has the opportunity to present their work towards a dream, TED Talk style in our library media center. During a 20 minute advisory time students voluntarily choose to attend a variety of club activities, conferences ...