Replacement+Ideas


 * //"...classroom practice changes at one speed, the world outside the classroom changes at yet another." (Thornburg, 2004, p.1) //**
 * Let's change that. Below are some ideas for replacing old classroom practices with those whose lessons will better prepare our students for life in this century . **


 * //From Christopher Taylor //**

﻿ Some repacement ideas I have work for PE but could be used in other classes with a little adjustment. one is a brief video or high-lite slideshow that will replace our outdated sports collage or sporting event review. Students will do a video or slideshow about themselves in sports or a sporting event they attended. The technology involved will be a video camera, a computer, and a movie editing program like moviemaker online. Regular classes could use this for classroom work missed or homework. The students could do book reviews or presentations as make-ups or just for everyday class assignments. [|taynuts]

Another Replacement Idea I have would involve using cell phones and texting between you and your students regarding homework or anything for that matter. You could have them do a scavenger hunt around school and when they follow the map correctly they can text you an answer to a question and or text you a picture of something on campus to show they completed the hunt. So the students will be using technology with cell phones and map reading or GPS if available.

Wikis are also a replacement for emails and/ or text in group work. Each member can see everything that is created and edited without waiting to find answers or to talk to everybody at once. This is a much more effecient way to communicate. Create your own at wikispaces.com.


 * //From Grace Ulrich //**

Assessments: With the new techonology that has been devleoped, come new ways of assessing our students. I have two replacement ideas, which both include getting rid of the old paper pencil assessments that we all still use in 2010.

One replacement idea is using SENTEOS, which are remotes that the students use to answer questions the teacher as placed on a slide show. Using SENTEOS would allow the teacher to have instant results on skill assessments. Also with the instant results the teacher could pull up a graph for each question to see what percentage of the class has mastered the skill and what percentage of the class still needs review on a skill. The teacher could create the assessments using either a powerpoint document or SMARTboard document and save. This would benefit the teacher becuase they would have access to this document on their computer and could change the assessment at anytime.

Another idea is the use of laptops in the classroom for assessing writing. Instead of having students create a writing assessment on paper, allow the students to use a laptop to create the writing piece using a word document. This would allow the students to work have editing tools and spell check as they were creting their writing piece. When the students had completed the writing assessment, they could then email the document to the teacher.

Objective Replacement Idea:

One skill objective that students must learn at some point in their school career is coordinate grids and ordered pair. A new tool in technology, which could be benefical to students who are learning this objective is GEO chashing. Geo chasing is a set of handheld remotes that the students must use to locate certain areas of the school that the teacher has inputted into the remotes. To use Geo cashing, it does require a bit of background work for the teacher. First the teacher must create a type of scavenger hunt lesson, with clues to use and that would allow the students to use the GEO cashing remotes. Second the teacher must set up the stations around the school either outside or inside that the students would need to find using the GEO cashing remotes. Third the teacher would need to get parent volunteers in, who would be stationed at the various stations to give the students their next clue in the hunt. GEO cashing is an interactive tech tool that is allowing the students to practice the math objective in a hands on way.

Grace Ulrich