tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37906483141261869832024-03-14T06:10:48.162-04:00Mrs.Wideen's BlogMrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-76401774884633990062019-08-26T08:37:00.000-04:002019-08-26T08:37:27.615-04:006 Ways to Transform Learning with iPad Integration<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine this scenario. You’ve just been given the opportunity to use an iPad with your class and you have no idea how you should use it. I mean really, you are already doing great things in your classroom without technology, so what’s the point of adding technology? In fact, you’ve heard children already have enough screen time and more can’t be good for them. You even have colleagues who are already using technology for engaging drill and practice games yet they aren’t seeing any benefit from having kids pinch, swipe, and tap on consumption apps. With so much negative information surrounding the use of technology in schools why were you given an iPad to use with your students?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, leadership knows and agrees that using technology to replicate what you’re already doing without technology adds very little value to student learning and achievement. In fact, it may even negatively impact learning so obviously that isn’t why it’s been given to you. So how can iPad integration in the classroom help support your learners in a positive way?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To begin with, having an iPad to use does not mean that you have to change everything you are already doing. Your engaging lessons and student-driven inquiries continue to be excellent teaching practices and technology isn’t going to change that. However, by adding an iPad into the mix you are making that good practice even better. An iPad allows your students to capture and document in images, text, voice, and video. Take for example what is happening in the image below. This student has created a house for a bear using hands-on materials. He then took a photo of his house and is measuring the dimensions and recording them onto the image on his iPad. Later he’ll be able to add his voice to this annotated image to document his thinking and learning from this task. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad allows you to create and capture learning in images, text, voice, and video </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This student has created a home for a bear and is using an iPad to capture and record the dimensions of the home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An app such as Draw and Tell allows even our youngest learners to take pictures of their work and annotate that work. For example, a student can take a picture outside their classroom door, outline the shapes that they see on it and then record their voice explaining what they have done. It allows the teacher to hear the thinking of the student even if they were busy with another student while the thinking was captured. It’s a far more meaningful task than asking your student to find and colour in shapes on a piece of paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad supports personalized learning for each individual student.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad offers a low entry point for all learners, yet also provides a high ceiling for those who require it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad gives each student the opportunity to record their voice and explain thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad allows the teacher to hear a student’s voice even if they were not there when it was captured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This student has utilized annotation tools to capture and show their understanding of shapes in their environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, an iPad is a portable device which means it can capture learning wherever it is happening. It can be brought on a forest walk to document different types of trees, used on the playground to capture shapes in the real world or come along on a field trip to the science museum to capture the highlights. An app such as Popplet can help a student create authentic artifacts of learning of what has been captured outside of the classroom. An iPad allows your students to capture their learning anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Document the Learning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad also allows a student to document their learning in images, text, voice, and video in an ongoing manner. The documentation doesn’t have to be perfect the first time around because mistakes can easily be fixed on an iPad. Yet, the work can easily be captured from the beginning of a project and stored in an app such as Book Creator. Book Creator allows a student to keep their self created artifacts (and the thinking behind them) organized and in one place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These children are using the Book Creator app to create an artifact of learning. They know that with this app they can personalize their pages, add text, shapes, images, voice, and videos to make a high quality finished product. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad also allows students to create their own evidence of learning and this fits in very well within a student-centered differentiated classroom. Each child can be doing a similar math activity at the same time and yet the activity can be personalized to best meet each students’ individual needs. For example, an app like PicCollage can be used to create a poster that shows an understanding of measurement. One child may focus on the tools used for measurement and focus on using the image search feature within the app to create their artifact of learning. Another student may focus on units of measurement and use the camera feature of the device to capture some images and use the image search feature within the device to create their personal artifact of knowledge. Differentiation is made much easier when you use an iPad to support that differentiation. There is an entry point for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This student has used both the iPad camera and the image search feature of PicCollage to show his understanding of units of linear measurement and when it would be best to use which unit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This student used the image feature in PicCollage to create an artifact showing their understanding of tools used for various types of measurement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An iPad is also a social tool that supports creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. Each child doesn’t need to have their own device to gain from the value of an iPad. Students can co-create artifacts of learning using an app like Book Creator. For example, they can use it to write non-fiction texts, create interactive stories, document the process of playing a sport, and capture positional language just to name a few ideas. They can use it for stop motion animation to document the life cycle of a salmon or to retell a favourite fairy tale. Learning together often supports creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking as two brains are better than one.</span></div>
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development of mathematical understanding for </span>young children. Researchers are
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mathematics learning. In my role as a Math Coach this year, I got the privilege to work with 4 Kindergarten Educators who were interested in
exploring how spatial reasoning tasks could support their students at a
diverse, multi-cultural school. Educators at the school were looking to explore mathematical tasks that
could provide entry points for all students, create opportunities for
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intentional math spatial reasoning tasks with at least 1 centre at all
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educators noted that this Collaborative Inquiry led to more student
mathematical language, more student interest in math, and increased use of
manipulatives. Students were more engaged and reported that they enjoyed the
centres and often asked if they could engage in the spatial reasoning
activities. Educators observed that there was more focus on math in general in
their classroom and consequently more mathematical discourse. They noted that an
intentional focus on math definitely led to more student participation and use
of language ( I used these rectangles and triangles and turned it (flipped it)
to make the shapes.).Because educators provided more challenging and more
variety in math tasks, students had the opportunity to problem-solve and be creative
and innovative in their learning. Educators participation in the inquiry and
their personal professional learning led to the creation of a library of
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Karen and I are so excited to be on Vicki Davis' new PODCAST: The 10-minute Teacher Show. We are especially excited to be one of the first guests on her new show. Check out the podcast and have a chance to win our book Innovate with iPad and a chance to win a Maker Bot Mini!</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you liked this lesson please check out my book, <a href="https://www.edtechteam.com/press/innovate-with-ipad/" target="_blank">Innovate with iPad - Lessons to transform learning in the classroom</a> that has many more practical lessons that will fit perfectly into your curriculum! </span>Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-49458555005470212852016-04-16T17:42:00.001-04:002016-05-05T20:50:36.436-04:00iPads, Worms and Non Standard Measurement<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1PQZ8CxW9UA/VxKt2mMXFcI/AAAAAAAAEec/vRDpMebA5pc8Wn9CENdKQVScGP5UVHetQCLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-04-16%2Bat%2B5.17.46%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1PQZ8CxW9UA/VxKt2mMXFcI/AAAAAAAAEec/vRDpMebA5pc8Wn9CENdKQVScGP5UVHetQCLcB/s200/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-04-16%2Bat%2B5.17.46%2BPM.png" width="170" /></a>This past week, I was asked to model a lesson in a grade 2 classroom using technology. They were just beginning non standard measurement so I decided to use the book, "Inch by Inch" by Leo Lionni. If you have not read this book, it is a wonderful story about a vulnerable inch worm that is about to be eaten but shows his predators that he is valuable by measuring them.<br />
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I was surprised that many of the students had a difficult time finding items that fit the task. I then had them choose partners and had them use the free app Pic Collage to take pictures of the items they found that were between 1 and 2 worms in length. I also provided them a task card with the directions and provided an example of what a finished project might look like.</div>
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<br />Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-69816325953141377732016-01-09T18:03:00.000-05:002016-01-09T18:03:15.279-05:00Purposeful iPad Applications to Show Mathematical Thinking in the Primary ClassroomI get many questions from colleagues on how to use iPads in purposeful and authentic ways rather than using drill and kill apps for their little ones. One way to incorporate iPads is to explore open ended math applications in conjunction with a content creation app that will capture student work and be able to record their thinking as well as record their voice. When young children are problem solving you can gain a lot of information about what the child can do by allowing the student to defend their answer. Here are a few new iPad task cards that I have created that are open ended. I would suggest that after your students save the image to photos that they open up an app like Explain Everything, upload their picture and explain their thinking. Here is an example of one of my students explaining her thinking.<br />
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<br />Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-12594898668292947902015-12-03T13:16:00.000-05:002015-12-03T13:16:28.324-05:006 Ways to Effectively Use Pic CollageI have been in many classrooms since October that are fairly new to using iPads in their classrooms. After the first initial lesson on "iPad Norms" A great app to start with is Pic Collage. I really like this app because there are so many uses, very simple to use and it is free! Here are a few ideas on how to effectively use Pic Collage in your classroom.<br />
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Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-3662411486086293712015-10-26T19:06:00.002-04:002015-10-26T19:12:08.543-04:00A Fun Lesson to Teach Addition using a Read Aloud, iPads and the Book Creator App<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last week I was in a grade 1 Classroom that was at the beginning stages of adding. This made me think of a great lesson <a href="https://twitter.com/KLirenman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Karen Lirenman</a> had done with the book <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/One-Is-Snail-Ten-Crab/dp/0763626317">One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab</a> (counting by feet book). I immediately told her about the lesson and we planned to co - teach it the following day. While I read the story, Mrs. Dadd created an anchor chart of </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. It gives your students a voice and lets them be the teacher to their peers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. Your students will have a built in audience that will provide authentic feedback to what they are writing about on their blogs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. On some days in the last rotation, my students had over 100 comments on their blogs! The excitement and engagement piece to this blogging community is huge! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You need to have a classroom blog (could be a blog that is part of Kidblogs, just to give the rest of the participants some information about your school and community) and your students need their own personal blogs. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">We also communicate frequently on twitter, use #PrimaryBC on twitter and follow me on twitter for news and updates @mrswideen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please fill in the google doc <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tdPq3u0srMae9cFO5s225xcHKIASg25whZaHPjCY1hk/edit?usp=sharing">here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I will be closing registration September 21st and we will begin October 5th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/student-authored-portfolios/id850696998?mt=11" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student Authored Portfolios: Archiving Learning With iPad </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> free iBook By Kathy Cassidy</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mrswideen.com/2014/07/using-social-media-as-teaching-tool.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using Social Media as a Teaching Tool</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Download Kidblog </span><a href="http://kidblog.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Download Edublogs </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://edublogs.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Here.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mrs. Wideen’s Class blogs </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://kidblog.org/MrsWideensClass2/" style="text-decoration: none;">Here</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past year, I really
focused on explicitly teaching comprehension strategies to my students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I taught how to reread a text, annotate a
text, leaving tracks of thinking while reading, questioning techniques and
most importantly, instilling in my students that reading is thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We used Padlet walls to show
our thinking, we drew pictures and wrote information digitally as I read aloud,
we used today’s meet to make our thinking visible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using these different strategies kept my
students engaged and allowed their thinking to be seen by their peers and
myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Near the end of this past
year we began an inquiry on Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find one of the most
challenging things about student inquiry is to find resources that are
interesting and at my students reading level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One resource I use often is readinga-z.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Reading
a-z is a website that has more than 2,500
downloadable books (including English, Spanish, and French versions) and
thousands of teaching and learning materials.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5VVN3zJqrSk/Va1SDFp3pyI/AAAAAAAAC78/qbBYc4ZDiPA/s1600/IMG_1159-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5VVN3zJqrSk/Va1SDFp3pyI/AAAAAAAAC78/qbBYc4ZDiPA/s200/IMG_1159-1.JPG" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use to search for specific
topics and then match my students reading levels to the text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would then print the various books out for
my students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This took a lot of time to print
and a lot of paper!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can usually find 2
or 3 different texts on the same topic in varying difficulty.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I was searching for different
books on Africa, I noticed that the books could be downloaded in a PDF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a game changer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having 32 iPads in my room, I was able to
save the book as a PDF and save it to Dropbox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My classroom iPads all have the Dropbox app, which means:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students open the Explain Everything app</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choose open file and download the PDF to Explain Everything</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PDF opens in Explain Everything and now students can annotate, draw, highlight and record their voice right on the document.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They can also save their work and go back to it for research purposes and it is a great way for me to assess their comprehension strategies.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could also use this same format to have your students show non fiction text features like the example below:</span></div>
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A few weeks ago, I did a workshop on Creating Authentic iPad
Learning Stations for Primary Students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought I would share some of the things that I spoke about and some
of the key points that I tried to get across in my workshop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First, an iPad Station does not consist of handing a child
an iPad, putting them on an app and letting them click away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come on people, aren’t we past this by
now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past, I have had colleagues
come ask me if they can use the iPads in my room the following period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I replied yes, their next question was,
“What apps do you have on them?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WHAT!?
Integrating technology doesn’t mean that you hand a child an iPad for a period
because you have nothing planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using
technology needs to be purposeful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
needs to be thought out, and there needs to a reason to use it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Technology is used to give students a voice, give students
choice, to give students a global audience, to make thinking visible and to
allow me to assess and give feedback using voice and video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also enables my parents to see their
children’s work on a daily basis through Twitter and their personal blogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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When I first started creating my iPad task cards, I only had
2 iPads in my classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I originally
used them as a centre or station during my daily 5 or my math stations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to put the task card along with an
iPad and voila! My students were able to all have a turn using the iPad for
something meaningful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of my iPad
stations stem from the Ontario Curriculum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Now that I have a cart of iPads, I still use the iPad
stations but, now many of the task cards are made for whole class activities
and are step by step instructions for students to follow to complete a task.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of my iPad stations are content creation stations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which means, that students use their
creativity and knowledge to produce something that shows their learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are a few examples:<o:p></o:p></div>
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My second key point is that you only need one page of apps
for your students to be successful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
too, have fallen into the free app downloading frenzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happens is you have so many apps for
your students to use that they never get comfortable using it and then have to
spend extra time learning the functions rather than concentrating on their work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have a handful of apps that your
students can use efficiently then they are not distracted by trying out a bunch
of new apps that probably aren’t as good as the ones I am going to suggest
anyways.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are the must have apps we use in my
classroom:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I like to use apps that you can use for different
purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We use two whiteboard apps in
my room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For young children or children
new to the iPad, Draw and Tell is where to start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For experienced iPad users (which is most
children) or children in grade 2 or higher I strongly suggest Explain
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Here is an example of one my iPad stations using EE:</div>
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And a student sample:</div>
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Another favourite app we use all of the time is Popplet:</div>
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We also use Pic Collage for many different applications:</div>
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Lastly, Geoboard is a great free app to use for math:</div>
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This year, I have used Padlet walls to assess work. Some of my students choose to use paper and pencil instead of the iPads to show their learning, with a quick picture of their work they can upload it to the Padlet wall and I can look at all of my students' work in one place from anywhere and see who is ready to move on or who needs to work with me the following day in a small group.</div>
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These are only a few examples of the iPad stations we use, please feel free to use any of the stations I have created. You can download and print them for free. At the top of the page where it says iPad Stations is where they are all stored. Enjoy!</div>
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Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-70808678778494700482015-04-19T20:28:00.002-04:002015-04-19T20:28:27.066-04:00 Must Have Apps for My ClassroomI have many emails from teachers that are just starting to use iPads in their classrooms about what apps I would recommend. I have to admit that the apps I loved 3 years ago are the pretty much the same ones I would recommend today. I do need to stress that these apps alone without teacher direction and curriculum goals will not magically improve your test scores or your students writing levels. There is a lot of thought in the way that I incorporate technology into my classroom. My favourite apps aren't button pushing apps that help students memorize math facts or sight words. These are apps that if used properly show student thinking. They are apps that make assessing students knowledge and thinking very apparent. These are apps that allow my students freedom and creativity to show what they know.<br />
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So my disclaimer is that these are my favourite apps for my classroom. A classroom that offers a lot of choice and freedom to my students. A classroom that is noisy, messy and full of life. This may not be your kind of classroom. These may not be your kind of apps.<br />
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Here is an example of one of my student's riddles:<br />
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Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-56176578708164402302015-03-23T21:42:00.000-04:002015-03-23T21:42:03.200-04:00Using Scratch Jr. as a Stepping Stone for CodingAs my students and I continue on our journey exploring coding in our classroom I wanted to find an app that would help my students build a foundation on how to code in a simple and creative way. I took a look at several apps and chose the Scratch Jr. App for several reasons:<br />
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<li>The app is a content creation app where students are able to create and express themselves, try new things, take risks and experiment.</li>
<li>Students that cannot read, can still use this app successfully.</li>
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When I first opened the app, I wasn't really sure what to do, there are many buttons and options. I wanted to let my students "tinker" with it but I also wanted it to be purposeful and not too frustrating. I went to the <a href="http://www.scratchjr.org/teach.html">Scratch Jr. website</a> and clicked on the activities tab. It brought me to an introductory video that I shared with my students and 9 different activity cards that could be printed out or shown on a screen in your classroom ranging in difficulty. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I loved how even my struggling readers could follow the simple instructions and that at the end of each task card was two challenges to try. Each of the nine activities demonstrates a different skill or action that children can do to create a program. I decided that I wanted my students to go through the nine task cards so they had a solid foundation of how to use the app and all of the options that were provided. I printed out all nine activity cards and created a checklist for my students to keep track of the activities they had completed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My students were so excited for this activity. We worked on the activities for about forty minutes. Most students got two or three of the activity sheets done. We worked on the activities again today and my students are so excited to see all of the different things they can do with this app. They are already asking me when we are going to continue with the activities. I have other students that can't wait to code stories they have written during writer's workshop. I was thinking of eventually using the app to code number stories that the children have written in math. Instead of just reading their number story, they could code it! There are so many possibilities with this app, I can't wait to see what my students come up with!</span></div>
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Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-34912206081361909932015-03-03T21:34:00.001-05:002015-03-03T21:34:21.156-05:00Teaching Coding without a Computer<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was our second lesson on coding without a
computer. If you would like to see our
first lesson check it out <a href="http://www.mrswideen.com/2015/02/introducing-seven-year-olds-to-coding.html">here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I
had the learning carpet (a square carpet with a grid on it) out in the middle
of the classroom.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told the students
that we were going to write a simple algorithm using the following language to move a stuffed whale to a predetermined spot on
the carpet using the following commands:</span></div>
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if the program ran the way we intended it too and if it didn’t, we would debug
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a few lines of code to get the whale where we wanted it to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then <o:p></o:p><span style="text-align: center;">added little math counters as
obstacles so it wouldn’t be a straight shot from point A to point B.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">After doing this activity several times
together, it was time for them to try it on their own.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">We placed the whale on the carpet and then I
placed a pink sticky note to where I wanted the whale to end up.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">I also added the math manipulatives as roadblocks
that the whale would have to maneuver around.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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attempts were not completely successful.
This is when I introduced the word “debugging”. The kids loved coming up to the carpet with
their lines of code and trying out what they had written. Out of 15 tries, we did not have a single
student get it completely correct the first try. It was music to my ears when each child tried
their code and realized that it was incorrect and replied with, “I need to go
debug my code and try again.” This
activity was challenging enough that my students had to debug their program, but
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My students learned key skills today in writing
and debugging code without a computer or device. Students worked on problem solving,
independent work and resilience. My
students also felt a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction when they figured
out how to get the whale to the pink sticky note. When the period came to an end, there was a
lot of moaning and asking, “When are we going to play this again?” Little did they know that they were learning
key skills in problem solving, directional language and being able to describe
movement from one location to another using a grid map, which are all math
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little over a month ago, I was invited to be on a team of writers for the ministry of Ontario to create a document for teachers about coding. Luckily, I did not need to have any previous experience in coding. My students have participated in the Hour of Code each year and we have skyped with a few programmers, but that is the extent of my coding experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had no idea really where to begin with my class. With over 30 iPads in my room, my second and third graders are quite tech savvy for their age. They love technology, but they don't really know how it works. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started with finding out their background knowledge on the topic. I asked the simple question, "What do you think coding is?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This lead to a conversation about what algorithms are and how they are implemented as programs on our iPads, computers etc. We discussed how computers don't read the same language as we do. I showed them this blog as the way we see it and then I hit the HTML button to show them how the computer reads it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then watched a great 5 minute video on <a href="https://www.brainpop.com/technology/computerscience/computerprogramming/">Brainpop</a> about computer programming. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Tim and Moby explain how programming is just like giving instructions. They explain how people write commands in computer languages called code, and how code is broken down into step-by-step procedures called algorithms. They also show how patience, attention to detail, and the ability to foresee different circumstances and outcomes can turn a lines of text into useful programs and activities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I found a great post by <a href="http://offbeatfamilies.com/2012/12/teaching-kids-to-program">Dr. Techniko</a> where he made a Robot Language Dictionary. I used his same commands for my students.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">At the end of the day, I could hear the kids talking about how much fun they had and telling their parents that they were learning about coding in class. My plan for the next lesson is to have them complete some sort of obstacle course by programming their robot (partner) to complete it. We will then get into debugging (the process of fixing errors in a program) and I will eventually get them onto </span><a href="http://www.scratchjr.org/" style="line-height: 18px;">ScratchJr</a><span style="line-height: 18px;"> on the iPads. </span></span></span></div>
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Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-31824018163933938422015-02-08T13:57:00.001-05:002015-02-08T13:58:47.035-05:00Using Brainpop, iPads and Padlet to learn about the Water Cycle<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bMfD8au-q14/VNesTrF0rnI/AAAAAAAAC0E/w7idKguVeic/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-02-08%2Bat%2B1.23.03%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bMfD8au-q14/VNesTrF0rnI/AAAAAAAAC0E/w7idKguVeic/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-02-08%2Bat%2B1.23.03%2BPM.png" height="200" width="175" /></a>Last week Sarah (my teaching partner) and I introduced the water cycle to our students. <br />
On Tuesday we started with a Padlet wall to see what our students schema was about the water cycle. From the Padlet we were able to determine that our students did not have a lot of background knowledge on the topic. Sarah then read the story <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Water-World-George-Ella-Lyon/dp/1416971300">All the Water in the World</a> and made another padlet with all the ways that we use water.<br />
On Wednesday I played the beginning of the <a href="https://jr.brainpop.com/science/weather/watercycle/preview.weml">Brainpopjr video about the water cycle</a> I modeled the comprehension strategy "Notes/Thinking T-chart" I wrote the question I was focusing on at the top, then wrote down the notes from the Brainpop video on the right hand side and then <br />
the students helped me write down their thoughts, questions and connections on the right hand side of the chart. I then handed out a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6qd_T8Fdl2uamR2MF9RRnlSRnM/view?usp=sharing">task sheet</a> with the questions I wanted answered from watching the water cycle video on Brainpopjr. After the students made their notes on each question, they were asked to create an artifact showing their learning from their research. We talked about how they could show their learning. Some of the responses were to use Explain Everything, Sonic Pics, iMovie, a poster, act it out, etc.<br />
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How do I keep track of all the different projects, you ask? While the students are working, I circulate the room and jot down their choice on how they want to share their project. I also placed a QR code on the task sheet. The QR code takes them to a Padlet wall where they can upload their work. If they create a poster or something that is not digital, they take a picture of their work and upload that to the Padlet wall. Therefore, all of their work is stored in one place where I as their teacher can assess it and where their peers and parents can see it and offer feedback. </div>
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Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-55979792793560707512015-01-23T18:50:00.000-05:002015-01-23T18:50:17.601-05:00Join The Global Project #kidscancreatechange<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F0YGnp0j3pE/VMLYOjVMYWI/AAAAAAAACzA/WgPc7zzjeKc/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-01-23%2Bat%2B6.23.41%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F0YGnp0j3pE/VMLYOjVMYWI/AAAAAAAACzA/WgPc7zzjeKc/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-01-23%2Bat%2B6.23.41%2BPM.png" height="244" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We (my teaching
partner and I) are embarking on an inquiry that we hope will promote
innovation, empowerment, risk taking, commitment, and skilled problem solving
in our students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Using
Fullan’s six elements of character as our framework we are attempting to
measure the impact of </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">focusing
work on social and global issues on students’ ability to demonstrate the 6
C’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The six C’s are:</span><br />
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<ul>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Character education</span></b><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: building resilience,
empathy, confidence and wellbeing.</span></li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Citizenship</span></b><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: referencing global
knowledge, cultural respect, environmental awareness.</span></li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Communication</span></b><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: getting students to apply
their oral work, listening, writing and reading in varied contexts.</span></li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Critical-thinking</span></b><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: designing and managing
projects which address specific problems and arrive at solutions using
appropriate and diverse tools.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #343434; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Collaboration</span></b><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: working in teams so students
can learn with/from others.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #343434; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Creativity and imagination</span></b><span style="color: #343434; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: to develop qualities like
enterprise, leadership, innovation. </span></li>
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<span style="color: #343434; text-indent: -0.25in;">In </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">developing this inquiry, we wanted to keep to a theme
“Make something in the world better.”
This could be:</span><br />
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<li>In the school</li>
<li>In the community</li>
<li>In the world</li>
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We wanted the children to identify a need, to create a plan
and then reflect on the outcome.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">It was December when we began this project, so it was the
perfect season to embark in this journey.
</span><span style="text-align: center;">There was a food drive at our school for local families and we also had
a Christmas tree in our front hallway that students and teachers decorated with
hats and mittens for children in need.</span><span style="text-align: center;">
This was our first step in building empathy in our students.</span><br />
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We then started introducing our students to issues that many
of them had no schema about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We explored
the following questions through the <a href="http://livingonone.org/changeseries/#.VLPnt8amiyM">LivingOnOne</a> Change
Series:<o:p></o:p></div>
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on just $1 a day?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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having clean water nearby have on your life?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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afford on $1 a day and what does it really mean to be malnourished?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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to get back on their feet after a natural disaster?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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in finding work and how do they make a living? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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just $1 a day for immediate costs like food and shelter and still save for long
term items like your kids’ education and emergencies?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">What prevents kids from going to school and how can education
respect traditional culture while also teaching modern skills?</span></i><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hETg7ACZDl0/VMLbZG6VsxI/AAAAAAAACzc/sQDZxs4fdRU/s1600/IMG_2441.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hETg7ACZDl0/VMLbZG6VsxI/AAAAAAAACzc/sQDZxs4fdRU/s1600/IMG_2441.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>We noticed that the students were very engaged in the
content and were hungry for more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
invited<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ehime14"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Emily
Hime</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> has a non profit
organization called </span><a href="http://www.himeforhelp.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Hime For Help</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Emily opened and runs Maison Ke Kontan Children's Home in Port Au Prince
where seventeen children currently reside. As well as running the Children's
Home she also sponsors over ten children and families who are living in extreme
poverty and gives these children an opportunity to attend school. She
also supports a tent city consisting of 76 people where she provides clothing,
food, and medical treatment as well as a remote village in the mountains of
Montrouis where she personally sponsors a family of nine and provides care
packages, medical care, clothing, and food for other Haitians in the village.
Twenty two year old Emily Hime was gracious enough to come and talk to our
class about her journey, her passion and why she is moving to Haiti
indefinitely this February. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
someone from our local community to come in to speak to our
students.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Emily and the
background knowledge we provided our students through read alouds, video and
pictures ignited a spark in our students that was contagious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students began bringing in spare change to
send to Emily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They began brainstorming
ways they could help Emily and her organization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is where
<b>#kidscancreatechange</b> came from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our students
want the world to know that even though they are young, they can create a huge
impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An impact, that can change the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We want you to join us</span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> We
want you to prove that you don’t have to be rich, or famous, or old to make a
difference. We want the world to know
that <b>#kidscancreatechange. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We are asking that
you identify a need in your school, community or in the world that you want to
make better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then let us know by filling
in the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uO_QpFKeOFqG25utryPD4MgQwLr6v9KRu-CNpEmndog/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">google doc</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> and documenting your journey with audio, text, pictures and or video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have an iPad, create a page using the
book creator app with all of your documentation and send it to us so we can
create a global collaboration book on how <b>#kidscancreatechange.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t have an iPad, we still want you
to participate!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Send us your
documentation through email and we will create the page for you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We know that this
project will take some time, we would like your documentation by April 13<sup>th</sup>
so we can create the collaborative book and get it back to you before the end
of the school year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If you are asking
the question, “Where do I start?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
created a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CN-H885pS1vWQO63YPF4Zw53ezIAW2v4QiJJnq5nSEc/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">google doc</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> with some resources to get you started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When you are ready
to show and tell us your journey on how <b>#kidscancreatechange</b> check out the
following <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16F3Otvum9plQpEK8Nv5nq2Hhk8V-lSSYavrWcmyZyug/edit">information</a> for easy instructions on how to send us your book creator
pages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If you have any
questions, don’t hesitate to ask!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Email
me at <a href="mailto:mrswideen@gmail.com">mrswideen@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Let’s empower our
students and show the world that <b><span style="font-size: large;">#kidscancreatechange</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The past few weeks we have been working on money. My second graders are expected to be able to estimate and count money amounts to one dollar. Funny that our math program only has one lesson covering money. As my good friend <a href="https://twitter.com/erinmastin">Erin Mastin</a> says, it was time to "Wideen" it and go off course and do my own thing. <br />
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My students were ranging from little or no knowledge of what the names of the coins are to being able to count money to around a dollar. Here are a few activities that we did and a few ways I differentiated the activities:<br />
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As you know, Explain Everything is one of my favourite apps and you will love what I am going to show you next. I came across a file that was created to use with Explain Everything. This file was created by <a href="http://www.explainingunderstanding.com/">Tim Pelton.</a> He made a project that I saved to my dropbox (dropbox is on all of my class iPads) Students go to dropbox, choose the file and choose to open it in Explain Everything. Presto! You have a screen with movable coins that students can use to show their learning. Here is the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xiyjnw2kjkcfeqd/Canadian_change_table.xpl?dl=0">link</a> for the file.</div>
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Believe it or not, all of the above actives were going on at the same time in my room, except for tag of course. The students were engaged, busy and excited to do the activities and it gave me some time to work with a group that needed extra help.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been reading other blogs tonight and seeing the pattern of choosing "one word" to really focus on this year. This couldn't have come at a better time as I wrestle with getting my big Global Project ready to launch. My "word" has everything to do with my students, the teachers near and far that I connect with each day and my own children. My "word" this year is to <b>empowe</b>r. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been encouraging my students to create positive change not only in our local community, but on a global scale too. Before the break, I began showing my students a documentary titled <a href="http://livingonone.org/changeseries/#.VKn0-8amiyM">Living On One.</a> It is about four college students that flew to Guatemala to see what it would be like to live on just one dollar a day, for 56 days. There are six 5-10 minute episodes on the most pressing issues Guatemalan people face everyday. My students were enthralled with these videos and asked me every morning if we were going to watch another episode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then invited an amazing young woman into our classroom that lives near us who is <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">running Maison Ke Kontan Children's Home in Port Au Prince where seventeen children currently reside. As well as running the Children's Home she also sponsors over ten children and families who are living in extreme poverty and gives these children an opportunity to attend school. She also supports a tent city consisting of 76 people where she provides clothing, food, and medical treatment as well as a remote village in the mountains of Montrouis where she personally sponsors a family of nine and provides care packages, medical care, clothing, and food for other Haitians in the village. </span>Twenty two year old Emily Hime was gracious enough to come and talk to my class about her journey, her passion and why she is moving to Haiti indefinitely this February. <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">a class to support Emily and her non profit organization </span><a href="http://www.himeforhelp.org/index.html" style="line-height: 21px;">Hime For Help</a><span style="line-height: 21px;">. Before the break my students were brainstorming ways to raise money and how to share and ignite other children to "Be the Change" using social media. Now this is empowerment. When my students are showing commitment to act for the common good and problem solving for a better future.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am going back to school tomorrow with an arm full of mentor texts to share with my students about empowerment and changing the world, one person at a time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't wait to continue this journey and to invite you to also encourage passion and possibility in your students. Stay tuned for a Global Project that will empower your students to create, innovate and problem solve in the service of a better future.</span></span>Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-728801877592911022014-11-13T20:58:00.000-05:002014-11-13T20:59:01.121-05:00Need an Authentic Audience for Math? Use TwitterFor the past couple of weeks my 2nd graders have been learning about data management. This past week they have learned about collecting data through surveys, how to create bar graphs and how to analyze the data they have received. For their culminating activity I asked them to create a question about "favorites." Once they had their question, I had them tweet it out on our classroom Twitter account (<a href="https://twitter.com/mrswideensclass">@mrswideensclass</a>). I then retweeted the questions on my professional Twitter account to try to get enough responses for them to collect their data. After two days, we had about 10 questions that had a sufficient amount of responses. The next step was for the children to find their questions on twitter and tally the results. <br />
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After the student tallied the responses they created a bar graph to show the data. I then had the students take pictures of their work and had them use Pic Collage to show their work. We did this because we try to respond to everyone that has responded to our class on Twitter. My class wanted to share their results with the people that answered their survey. After my students created an image in Pic Collage they saved it to the camera roll and responded to everyone that took their survey with the picture of the results and a quick message.</div>
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First, I want to thank our PLN for responding to the questions. The children were so excited to see all of the results. What a fantastic and different way to collect surveys that are real and authentic. It is also a fantastic piece of assessment that my students enjoyed, were engaged and eager to complete. </div>
<br />Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-91143311884443095302014-11-11T12:42:00.000-05:002014-11-11T12:42:29.502-05:00Students Show their Thinking with the Drawing Pad App<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today in our quest to find more out about habitats. We discussed that there are different types of habitats. I thought we would get through all of the habitats in one literacy block. Boy was I wrong! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ultimately, I wanted students to understand that each habitat contains certain characteristics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Due to how long this activity took, my teaching partner and I have decided to break the kids into groups and give each group a different habitat to learn about tomorrow. (brainpopjr has 6 different habitat videos) We will then have the groups create something to show their learning on the habitat they research and share it with the class.</span></div>
Mrs. Wideenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734976311375754429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790648314126186983.post-22447869085186719152014-11-10T11:54:00.001-05:002014-11-10T11:54:15.597-05:00Using Padlet to Introduce the RAN Graphic OrganizerWe are starting a new Inquiry Unit on Animals and we are in the "Immersion phase" of the inquiry circle. Which means, I am inviting curiosity, teaching background knowledge, and inviting students to wonder about different animals.<br />
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One of the things that I want my students to include in their Inquiry learning is what their animals habitat is. I also wanted to introduce them to a new graphic organizer called the RAN strategy, which stands for Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction.<br />
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A RAN chart is a lot like a KWL chart. However, the students start with prior knowledge then after reading or watching something about the topic they move their sticky to a new column based on if their information was right or if it was a misconception. The chart also still contains a New learning column as well as a Wonderings column.<br />
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I took a screen shot of part of a RAN chart and used it as the background to the padlet wall. See what a padlet wall is <a href="http://www.mrswideen.com/2013/04/using-padlet-qr-codes-and-ipads-oh-my.html">here.</a> I then chirped the url of the padlet to the students iPads and had them fill in what they thought the word habitat meant. See what chirp is <a href="http://www.mrswideen.com/2013/10/you-must-try-this-app.html">here</a>.<br />
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If you would like to see the padlet live the link is <a href="http://padlet.com/kristen_wideen/RAN">http://padlet.com/kristen_wideen/RAN</a></div>
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Tomorrow I will be giving students a piece of writing on habitats at their reading level. I will have my students use the RAN strategy using sticky notes and a graphic organizer.</div>
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Here is a link to some RAN graphic organizers I found <a href="http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/mkiva/files/R.A.N%20Writing%20Frames.pdf">http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/mkiva/files/R.A.N%20Writing%20Frames.pdf</a> from Marianna Kiva's website if you wanted to try it out in your own class.</div>
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