Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Technology Integration in the Primary Grades

The students and teachers at the RSD6 elementary schools have been doing some exciting things with technology. Over the past few months of the 2012-2013 school year, teachers have been upgrading their classroom websites to improve school/home communication and utilizing Google Docs to collaborate with colleagues.

The students have been engaging in a variety of digital-age learning experiences. Here are a few examples of how the primary teachers are promoting creativity, communication, and collaboration in the classroom.

Mrs. Maiolo's second graders have been using the Fotobabble app to publish poetry and practice reading fluency.



 Each of the kindergartners in Miss Gleason's class created a Voki to publish their writing pieces about their favorite season.


First graders in Mrs. Williamson's class have been working with the Puppet Pals app on the ipad to demonstrate their learning in Reader's and Writer's Workshop.


Students in Mrs. Carpenter's second grade class illustrated their understanding of 'doubling' using the free online tool, Kerpoof.



After each student designed his or her human self, Kindergardeners in Mrs. Brady's class went wild using BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF.  


Kindergarden and First Grade students read the book, Little Cloud by Eric Carle in Art Class from a YouTube video. They dialogued about seeing various shapes in clouds and painted their own clouds with white paint on blue paper.