Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Digital Edge Project
The lesson I followed from the Digital Edge Project is called "Poetry Signs with Early Readers." The author is a kindergarten teacher who describes a lesson she created the incorperates technology, singing, literacy, listening, and other domains. Every accpect of the lesson is adaptable to an individual student. She groups her students based on ability which I think is pretty cool. Another part of her lesson that I really like was the introduction. Because the students are in kindergarten and some of them have never been in school before, she begins the lesson by having children go on a scavanger hunt with their families. Each students has a list of items that they must find outside, at home, or somewhere in the community. How fun would that be! It's also a great transition from home life to school life. One downside of this lesson is that I don't believe technollogy was very thoughrly integrated. The teacher only has students learning to copy and paste, and push ctrl S to save. I believe that kindergartners jare much more capable than this. They could certainlly work with the key board and at least type their names. Some of them anyway and she has them already grouped based on ability.
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Arielle -
ReplyDeleteThe lesson you chose seems interesting. Based on your blog alone, I couldn't really see how the lesson related to poetry. What kinds of things were the students asked to find during their scavenger hunt? What were some of the results from the class? What did they do with those results? In a kindergarten class, I think that learning to copy, paste, and save a document is an important skill. As a teacher, I wouldn't get too fancy with computer programs with this young of a group of students. Simply using a computer would be motivating and exciting enough, I would imagine.
I really liked the part of this lesson about connecting home life with school life. I feel that this is so important and lessons like this allow for necessary conversations and experiences in the home that concern school.
When you say the teacher "groups her students based on ability," what do you mean? Does she group the top of the class together and all of the students who are behind together? This has been proven to be ineffective.
Good thoughts though!
Hanna