Netbooks+-+St.+Teresa+-+January+2012

1. Students are reporting on their experience - (2 - 3 students sharing - recorded on video) attach videos 2. Students have acquired new technology skills that they had not had previously - please see the 21st century list below *ability to prioritize, plan, and manage for results *curiosity, creativity, risk taking *global awareness *teaming, collabortaion *higher-order thinking and sound reasoning 3. Students have learned about digital citizenship - please see the digital citizenship list of skills below 4. How has our teaching changed? What practices will you continue? My teaching has changed because I now have an understanding of the capacity that the students use technology. Many were even beyond where I thought and with some they already knew how to do the activities that I was teaching about. I would like to continue to use the technologies that we have in our school because this is what many of the students are using at home so we neet to keep up with them in the classroom. 5. What are some best practices? 6. How has student achievement improved because of the use of the equipment? Students have learned:
 * How do we know we have been successful? **
 * what should I do if I come to an inappropriate site
 * helping others learn-navigate-breaking information up so one person does not need to research as much
 * studnets choosing what they would like to learn more about.....asking "can we learn more about this?"
 * telling other students in the school what they have learned or done on the netbooks
 * being clear on how to look after and carry the netbooks
 * having a management word-when you here freeze what should you be doing?
 * reviewing digital citizenship- what should I do if I get to a picture that I shouldn't?
 * login-in the morning-so that the netbooks are ready to use all day long
 * how to use the internet to learn
 * know how to narrow their forcus-be more prescise
 * what is there to do with a computer other than play games-navigating Microsoft Word

7. Listing what I have learned and what we some of the challenges -technology does not always co-operate -student curiousity to try new things 8. What are some tips for next time users? 9. What is your legacy piece? How have you left a digital footprint to let other know about your important work with kids? (Video, digital storytelling, celebrations with parents, inviting senior administration, manual, collaborative place for yourself and your students) Our legacy piece is a video that we will have a showing at parent teacher interviews. The video shows students using the netbooks and talking about what they liked about the netbooks. The students will also be sharing their completed brochures with their families.
 * PATIENCE- ** students are at very different levels of technology
 * EXCITMENT- ** students taking repsosiblity for own learning
 * Set clear expectations for classroom behaviours while using netbooks
 * login befor you are actually intending to use them
 * try a site you want to use on a couple of the netbooks

10. Final thoughts about your project. It was a great experience. It taught me a lot about how I would use technology that is in my classroom evey day. It also taught me about what type of technology I would prefer. 12. Would you recommend to use this equipment? I would recommend that other teachers try having technology on their rooms for a period of time. It really gives you an understanding of how students respond to technology and what type would best work with your teaching style. I would recommend the netbooks be used for the main prurpose of research and the use of Microsoft Word.