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Title: Enhancing the Daily 5 Through Technology
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Our project looks to update the Daily 5 with the integration of 21st century skills. With netbooks, students will complete several multimedia projects to be published online. The digital library of student created literacy works, teacher resources and student exemplars will be for use across the province.

The projects strongly support the development of writing,
reading and oral communication skills for students by providing them with the opportunity to become self-proclaimed published authors, illustrators, performers, and broadcasters to a provincial audience and beyond. Students will need to produce written, visual and/or oral composition for their projects and in the process enhance their own reading, writing and speaking skills using the Daily 5 model for developing independent literacy skills.

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Title: Math Netbook Project
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Students with poor identities in math see themselves as only being partly involved in math classrooms, incapable of doing math, and see math presented in the classroom as being irrelevant to their life.  This project proposes that netbook computers and a printer be added the classroom so that the teacher and students can engage in two major math projects throughout the year using access to information over the internet and manipulation of information in Microsoft Excel.  Through these activities, it is hoped that students’ math identities will be affected in a positive way by fostering engagement within a team and allowing situations for students to show capability in creating solutions to real life mathematical problems.

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Title: The iPod Touch Daily 5 ILF Project
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The goal of this project is to assist students in increasing their independence, stamina and learning achievement  within the Daily 5 program through accessing content via iPod Touch devices.  

Student performance will be measured by observation, rubric , student self assessment and assignment performance. Students will be able to use an iPod Touch during all components of Daily Five rounds.  Students can access the voice recording feature to read with fluency and expression for a future audience in Read to Others, access ebooks  and online materials for Read to Self, listen to peer or professionally created audiobooks for Listen to Reading, use many free fun game style applications (apps) to complete Word Work and enter text for Work on Writing.  

The target group for this project is global.  Enrichment students can benefit from more challenging apps and materials and Accommodated or Modified students can find more appropriate materials.  An example, is an accommodated student who has poor decoding skills being able to view either an ebook with audio or have a hard copy of the text while listening to the audio book which they could not read independently.


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Learn more about the possiblities of using devices such as the iPod Touch to enchance education: Apple in Education


 

 


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