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This past month, my "tech squad" of teachers at my elementary school were able to do an early adoption of Google Apps for Education. Each of our students were given Google accounts, and we were given a brief training. In addition, 2 chromebook carts were ordered for student use. During these past few weeks, my 4th graders and I have been experimenting with the role GAFE can play in our classroom - specifically using Google classroom.
Last semester, my action research focused on iPad use during my math centers. While students skills remained consistent, their fraction skills did not improve overall, and I found it difficult to check in on what the students were actually doing during this 20 minute rotation period. With the introduction of GAFE and Google classroom, I am beginning to wonder how I could go about creating assignments on Google docs, Google Draw, etc... have the students watch videos and take short quizzes, etc. Then student engagement would most likely be high, since my students are drawn to anything involving technology. In addition, my feedback would be more immediate, as I can can check in where students are at daily. There would be much more variety to the things my students can do on a chromebook versus what they were able to do on a specific iPad app. My only dilemmas would be: How can I specifically track/measure data? Do I focus on one specific math skill? How do I balance a variety of assignments to keep my students engaged with not having too many variables in my research?
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May 2016
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