Crushing the Barriers!

Crushing the Barriers

Our classrooms and our students are changing. One barrier is  all of the new technology available to us on a daily basis it is no surprise that we as teachers have trouble keeping up. The I can statements I found on pinterest help to guide the students to keep “playing” with the devices so they can become fluent with them and be up to date with the technology.  As educators, we need to keep up through research and playing with these devices ourselves! I know we don't have the time to become fluent in everything technology, so I created a product to help us out. I am very excited to introduce "Technology I Can Statements" 

Another barrier that I face is  not having enough devices for everyone to work at the same time. I found several ideas to help break through this barrier. The website below was a spot to find different ideas on what to do and how to manage the real world fact of not enough to go around. Another idea that I found on was to ask parents for old devices that could be used in the classroom. The teacher set up buckets with the ipods numbered so part of the class could use them while the other half worked with the teacher. It gave the students the chance to each get to use the device themselves.

Found on eskymaclj.blogspot.com.au-ideas for what to do when you don’t have enough devices

Another barrier that I want to be able to break through is the idea of not having enough time to find all the sites and be fluent with them. I found different web sites to visit to try and help overcome the issue. I have started a board on pinterest to place ideas to break through this.

The final barrier is the students not being able to get finished with the digital product we are trying to create. One way to solve this is to have the students be able to work across the subjects so that the digital creation would cover more than one subject area.