Today I get the opportunity to review Shelly Fryer's blog and specifically her blog post about "Technology 101 Skills for Teachers". Shelly Fryer is a teacher who teaches 3rd and 4th grease and also a speaker and advocate for children. Shelly loves helping students fall in love with learning and engaging them in the class. She also teaches in a iPad 1:1 classroom. Technology is recognized as a need in her classroom.
In Oklahoma A Plus Schools (https://twitter.com/okaplus) where she is involved as a teacher in workshops and as a fellow providing training for other schools. This school focuses on:
-Art
-Curriculum
-Experiential Learning
-Multiple Learning Pathways
-Enriched Assessment
-Collaboration
-Infrastructure
-Climate
A Plus schools goal is to integrate the arts into the curriculum but not only this they want the integration to involve the teachers common vocabulary and skills with the multiple subjects, activities, and engaging activities.
-Art
-Curriculum
-Experiential Learning
-Multiple Learning Pathways
-Enriched Assessment
-Collaboration
-Infrastructure
-Climate
A Plus schools goal is to integrate the arts into the curriculum but not only this they want the integration to involve the teachers common vocabulary and skills with the multiple subjects, activities, and engaging activities.
Since Shelly has a 1:1 iPad classroom she is very aware of the power of technology in the classroom. Through this she sees the importance of A Plus showing other teachers the tools that they have through technology to integrate into their lessons. Showing a teacher that an app can be more than reinforcement. Shelly said "I am convinced technology tools should be used to enhance and amplify student creativity". She also believes that students must be sharing their creations in the classroom.
How does one successfully integrate iPads into the classroom? First teachers have to have their own iPad to use, install apps, create, and use. Teachers need to be supported in using their iPad and understanding the tool in their hands. It is harder for adults and small children to learn how to use the technology so we have to have an idea of how to use the iPad so we can help our students.
With technology we are able to create. Teachers have so many resources with apps and need to start growing their own as shelly says "app literacy" to know what is before them and what's is appropriate for students' developmental levels and needs. Teachers need to know language such as
1. Share Square
2. Hamburger
3. Save to Camera Roll
4. Workflow
5. Home Button
6. Screenshot
7. Photo Roll
1. Share Square
2. Hamburger
3. Save to Camera Roll
4. Workflow
5. Home Button
6. Screenshot
7. Photo Roll
We as teachers also have to help create more "channels" for saving and sharing the students digital projects. In her classroom she uses http://classroom.shellyfryer.com/ which is a Google Site for technology integration. She also uses QR Codes and SeeSaw (http://web.seesaw.me/). Shelly uses http://createqrcode.appspot.com/ to create QR codes for her classroom and copies and paste them into google documents to print for students. Students use https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-nigma-qr-code-data-matrix/id388923203?mt=8 to scan the QR code in their documents. In the Technology 101 Workshop the teachers are introduced to apps that allow students to show what they know with the media. This is common vocabulary between her and her husband http://twitter.com/wfryer. Shelly believes "teachers need encouragement and support to help their students share their work both inside and outside the classroom."