5A Promote and demonstrate effective use of digital tools and resources;

Promote and demonstrate effective use of digital Technology:

My classroom stands as a model for what a digital classroom can and should be. My students use laptop computers, and ipads/Nexus tablets. When I purchase a new app or when my students were first using Google documents as a shared or collaborative tool, I modeled and still model offering them a great deal of scaffolded instruction in the process to use when sharing, collaborating, or renaming a document. The instruction in digital  tools are combined and, go hand and hand with the instructional topic in reading/writing/literacy that is being taught. Since the instruction is presented as embedded as part of our work, the instruction is authentic to their learning situation and more readily usable the next time they need to independently use the tool. 

Here is a blog I created for my personal use and later adapted for use in a graduate class I took named, Integrating Technology into Work, School and Community:

http://kdogs21stcenturyreading.blogspot.com/


Students are instructed in proper use of  these costly and valuable digital tools. They have been instructed on how to walk across the room holding the ipads for maximum safety. Students have read and  reviewed my digital fair use agreement allowing them to use technology. Students  understand how and what they can and cannot do with technology in my class. 

I presented at Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference for the past two years, sharing and explaining how  I use technology in my reading and literacy classroom. Here is  the link to the description of  my presentation:
Stephanie Karabaic's Conference Session Description 

My Sliderocket Presentation for Christa McAuliffe