6 Tips for the Paperless Pioneer
Common Sense Media recently shared a great article for teachers to introduce 1:1 devices within their instruction. Check it out: 6 Tips for the Paperless Pioneer: Making the Most of Your Chromebooks
1. Begin with low-stakes activities.- Create a few low-stakes, content-light activities designed to get students used to the routines of the Google for Education platform. Teacher example: Paper-pencil scavenger hunt, which required students to navigate through a teacher website, the school website, and Google Classroom, in order to find and record various information. Students gained experience with functions like posting comments, accessing online resources, and checking their grades without having to worry about digesting difficult content. Moreover, the fact that the actual assignment was still completed on paper and turned into the bin on my desk at the end of the period allowed reluctant students a smoother transition into the paperless world.
2. Teach to no more than four students at a time.- Teach tech skills to no more than four students at a time. Teacher example: I was able to keep my class organized and occupied with a paper-and-pencil assignment while giving explicit technology instruction and personalized attention to small groups of students.
3. Seek help from three resources before me. - "Three before me" rule. Teacher example: Students were always allowed to collaborate with one another and were encouraged to search for their own answers using both online resources and their peers, rather than relying on my answers.
4. Provide a rubric and a model.- Teacher example: Create two sample "A+" slideshows on literary movements that none of the groups were covering that I uploaded to my Google Classroom stream.
5. Demonstrate your omniscience. Teacher example: I modeled that by clicking "All changes saved in drive" at the top of a student's shared Google slideshow project, I could see an entire revision history of what each group member had added and when they had added it. Thus, I could tell if they had copy-pasted from a website or if a single group member had done all the work alone.
6. Promote student fearlessness.- Model the behavior. Teacher example: Teach students how to undo actions in Google and how to take items out of the trash. I started giving students quick five-minute challenges that asked them to learn how to use a specific function like inserting a chart or a footnote without help.
1. Begin with low-stakes activities.- Create a few low-stakes, content-light activities designed to get students used to the routines of the Google for Education platform. Teacher example: Paper-pencil scavenger hunt, which required students to navigate through a teacher website, the school website, and Google Classroom, in order to find and record various information. Students gained experience with functions like posting comments, accessing online resources, and checking their grades without having to worry about digesting difficult content. Moreover, the fact that the actual assignment was still completed on paper and turned into the bin on my desk at the end of the period allowed reluctant students a smoother transition into the paperless world.
2. Teach to no more than four students at a time.- Teach tech skills to no more than four students at a time. Teacher example: I was able to keep my class organized and occupied with a paper-and-pencil assignment while giving explicit technology instruction and personalized attention to small groups of students.
3. Seek help from three resources before me. - "Three before me" rule. Teacher example: Students were always allowed to collaborate with one another and were encouraged to search for their own answers using both online resources and their peers, rather than relying on my answers.
4. Provide a rubric and a model.- Teacher example: Create two sample "A+" slideshows on literary movements that none of the groups were covering that I uploaded to my Google Classroom stream.
5. Demonstrate your omniscience. Teacher example: I modeled that by clicking "All changes saved in drive" at the top of a student's shared Google slideshow project, I could see an entire revision history of what each group member had added and when they had added it. Thus, I could tell if they had copy-pasted from a website or if a single group member had done all the work alone.
6. Promote student fearlessness.- Model the behavior. Teacher example: Teach students how to undo actions in Google and how to take items out of the trash. I started giving students quick five-minute challenges that asked them to learn how to use a specific function like inserting a chart or a footnote without help.
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