Tomorrow (Thursday August 27th) is the launch day for our Inspired Learning project with 6th graders. We will hand out netbooks to each 6th grade student in two of our Language Arts classes. The project has involved a great deal of work this summer for everyone involved and this will be a big moment.
From the enormous support by our district IT people down to each teacher readying their lesson plans we've created something very exciting that I'm proud to be a part of.
I'll be commenting tomorrow about how it goes. Stay tuned!
I'll be commenting tomorrow about how it goes. Stay tuned!
Awaiting your reports. GMS has hit the ground running. Just sayin... ;-)
ReplyDeleteFirst class went really well. It was surprising that about 80% of the students had used a netbook last year in 5th grade. That made things pretty easy.
ReplyDeleteAll the netbooks worked well. No major problems. The students got on the private class wiki, set up their accounts and had fun getting acquainted with the new netbooks running ubuntu with Netbook remix (NBR).
Second class with a different teacher went even better. This bunch of kids are very comfortable using the netbook already and their understanding of a wiki is strong too. This will be a great year to see how these students extend their learning from last year.
ReplyDeleteThey just get it!
So good to hear! I saw similiar things this week at GMS. Keep us posted! By posting.;-)
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