Yesterday I had the opportunity to watch my awesome friend Sam
teach in my classroom. (He is the one who inspired me to do my iPod donors
choose projects.) So Sam comes up with the super cool lesson where my kids write
what they think is the most important thing about fire safety then we use iTalk
(an app on the iPod touches he brought with him) to record the rule each of
them had written down. Holy moly, at first I was very concerned about how the
kids would do. The lesson was in the afternoon and I’ve had a hard time getting
the kids to do a ton of writing in the afternoons. (Now that I think about it
in my half-exhausted state, perhaps its just that I either a. need more adult
support in my room so my writing can be in small group setting, or b. I am not
planning lessons that are appropriate difficulty.) Anyway, I was super
impressed with Sam’s management of my crazy kids, his patience with them not
knowing what to push, etc. The kids were super engaged. They thought it was
cool to get to use the iPods and then listen to their own voices. After they
were successful with the lesson Sam and I decided that perhaps they’d earned a
few minutes of game time on the iPods. They enjoyed the games and getting a
little bit of extra technology time.
Here are some pictures of our awesome lesson… And by our, I mean Sam’s
awesome lesson. :) Thanks again Sam for coming in and showing us such cool
stuff!!! We can’t wait to get our iPods and start using them every day in our
room.
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| Working with iPods on recording what we had written down. |
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