Orchard's Class

Vision & Goals for This Year:

My goal for this year is to create innovative web users.  Last year, I feel like I did a great job of fostering creative and collaborative lessons. I found it natural to differentiate on ipad classroom assignments.  Yet, students still depend on my direction too much.  I want them to become the directors of their own learning and boost their research skills.  I want to get students past the first 10 results on a google search.  I want to teach them to be able to teach each other.

I'm off to a great start.  The hstry.co timeline assignment really allowed students to assume research roles.  Additionally they collaborated to curate a really innovative multimedia presentation.  They learned to edit appropriately.  I was very impressed.  Additionally, I saw the payoff of taking instructional time to teach them to use google search tools appropriately.  They were digging up stuff that I had never seen before.  It fit into my vision of not being the gatekeeper anymore.  They are their own keymasters (Ghostbusters reference for the win!)