Technology in the Classroorm

How do you use technology in your education? Do you peruse YouTube? Does your teacher use a Smart Board? Do you make presentations in PowerPoint? In grade 8 at Sagonaska we are encouraging students to use their technology to be creators! Instead of using technology to simply consume (watch a video or find information about a topic we are writing about) we want the kids to do something they would not have been able to do with out the technology.
     Here are some photos of grade 8 students editing their paragraphs. The special part about this is that all of the feedback they have received to help edit their work comes from people outside of our classroom! Some of the comments come from people we don't even know! All of this is to help illustrate to the students that learning does not just happen in a classroom, learning can happen anywhere! As the students draft and rewrite their paragraphs, I will post them again and again so you too can see the growth!