A new school year has begun and all the 6th grade students are getting Chromebooks. My research classes still have the ones I wrote the grant to get, but now my 6th grade students will have their own. Next year, all students will have them.
Initially, I can tell some students are more savvy than others. While having to walk some through the process of getting to their Drive to start and Share a Google Doc, others have already been there, Shared it, and are asking about embedding a Google Presentation they made at home over the summer into their Doc. What a wide spread of skills!
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Oh My! Thank heaven the Google Site
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The research class has required me to adjust and, in some cases, delete, some of the lessons I routinely teach (or a should say, USED to routinely teach!). Since everyone is traveling at a different pace, I am grateful for the Google Site where all my classroom protocols, rubrics, handouts, and lessons exist. That is allowing for self-pacing and self-direction. Once that was a theory, but now that I see how broad apart the skill sets are, I am grateful for that piece of differentiation because, Oh My!, what would I do for those sitting around while I explain to one student how to find the apps grid, and then his/her /Drive?
