Our last class was mostly an opportunity to share some of the projects we have been working on. We shared our group project on using ComicLife to build community by creating fractured fairy tales. The other group presented on using inDesign to create newsletters. I liked their project. I think inDesign is a great tool and I'm sure students really enjoy using it to interview and share information about each other.
The individual projects were impressive as well. The use of tools like Scratch, ComicLife, video, photo editing software, web design software, etc... were really well thought out. As a technology teacher, these are all tools I feel comfortable with and I use them with students. The challenge for me is how to help teachers feel comfortable with them and see how they fit into their classroom. Sometimes it fits into the curriculum as it looks right now, but sometimes, I feel we need to throw out the curriculum and rebuild it based on new skills, new tools, and new expectations for students coming out of our schools. This is a difficult change to bring about. We are developing a core of teachers who are excited about it, but we also have a group of people who are tentative, suspicious, or resentful about it.
I am excited to see that our students are getting the opportunities presented in class today, but I am interested in finding ways to replicate projects like these to be developed in all of our classrooms.
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