First days of class has been mix bad of emotions with the class year being different in it's set-up, classroom management, and technical requirements.
Bad thoughts about the first day are more focused on the use of early release and students bumbling through on finding the virtual classroom. Also, the connectivity issues and lack of computers for many students especially the 6th graders. SUPER Frustrating and disheartening! 🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐 Next, frustrating thing is all the email for student attendance, which is a necessary evil for warm body count. 🙉🙈🙊
Good thoughts!!! My virtual classroom has been relatively productive and engaged. Just a list of applications used by mine class include: Google classroom, TEAMs, Flip Grid, Google Forms, and menti.com. My STEAM class is heavily laced with technology from start to finish and the students follow my lessons closely or they will get lost.
Best thing is the use of menti.com to describe the kids expression of describing STEAM. The word walls allows the students to use creativity and critical thinking with this simple activity. These word walls are quantitative with frequency being expressed by the size of the words. In other words this simple activity is engaging both the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
The participation was captured in both of my small and larger classes. In general, I was very surprised on some of the answers being generated by the kids and especially the talk about mini computers raspberries. Hopefully, I can turn this work into a paper of new interactive tools for a science classroom! I am really starting to turn my gears!!!!
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