![]() ![]() They can read silently somewhere else! But > that's just my opinion. > That frees me up to interact with those students needing help > choosing a book. More than half our students can't > use technology outside the school day and besides teaching tech > skills some of the times they come, just the opportunity to have > the social aspects of working together to "beat a level" is not > only important, I almost never have a single discipline issue. That's besides the library computers, not sure > if you have any? If so, I have lots of ed games on one link of > my website (Cool Math for Kids, etc) My argument in a high > poverty school is tech equity. I made a folder for game apps (all free), they have > about 10 choices. > I have a cart of 10 I Pads and kids share in groups of 2 and 3 > friends. > Can you GET some technology? Not approach it as "the enemy". That's where my tech grants have been a > lifesaver. I don't have any help, either, nor > parent volunteers. But the problem time for > me is during book check out. > Anyway, for me the reading aloud is not an issue for half the > time, as you said, if you are good at it, they will listen and > if not, you can find other resources. Some of them really look forward to coming and it's a > joy to be able to include them, but not always- just a whole > other factor to deal with. Another issue I have > is that students who spend the rest of the day in a contained > classroom for life skills go to every specialist with their > homeroom. It can be a > very long time, especially with some of the bigger classes (one > grade level has nearly 30 in each class). On 5/07/14, And another angle wrote: > Wow- those are GREAT ideas! > I see 6 classes a day, K-6, also for 55 minutes. I do have a Smartboard and have used it quite a bit. Circ desk is on the far side of the room from the computers so monitoring them at the same time is impossible.Īnd I tried audiocd's with the better classes last year.Sadly, they had no interest. Yes, check out is a crazy, lots of questions where things are at, etc. Most of what they select on Cool Math is racing games with little or no math involved.Īnd many of our ELL students have never used a computer before. I've used Starfall and with K-2, and, XtraMath with 3-5.and Cool Math a few times during the year. (And I've tried in the past to learn.just not something I retain. Kdg at the start of the year, most do not speak much if any English and what I know in Spanish is of very little help. And we are the school for all new ELL students. See More I forgot to add that a majority of our students are bilingual.mostly Spanish. Booklady I forgot to add that a majority of our students are bilingual.mostly Spanish. ![]()
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