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I will be teaching a 6th grade technology class to the incoming 6th graders in my school. So far, several of the tools I have looked at will make a great addition to the curriculum we are going to use. I personally have used several in the past in my regular classroom and plan on continuing to do that as well this year.
Collaboration: I like Google Drive's capabilities to do document sharing. I have used it to collaborate on rubrics with my LA co-teacher and have also used it to give students comments on their writing pieces. I have even worked from home, helping a student who was struggling with her writing piece. It is a great piece of technology. I also have used Dropbox with the students. It is a little harder because the students have to set up their own copy on their personal 1:1 computer.
Creativity: I looked at Tynker and Scratch as a couple of programs that I would like to use this year. Coding is a great way to get students to think about tech and how things work. Scratch might take a little bit more work to use it easily. I am not familiar with it, but it looked intriguing.
Critical Thinking: Socrative could be a good quiz program I think. Then I think that Tynker might fit here as well. Coding requires thinking about how to say something to make things happen. Many of the jobs in the future will require coding if students are looking at a tech career.
Organization: I have used all 4 of the programs I am going to list in the classroom and for searching for classroom materials and ideas. TeacherTube, YouTube, Pinterest, and Dropbox all have different applications for me. I acutually use the first 3 as resources for teaching materials and then I use Dropbox as a place to share and store materials that I use in class.
Symbaloo is a great tool in it's own right. It gives students or teachers a place to organize tools for classroom use.
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