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Using Technology to Increase Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in Elementary Grades
Michelle Eckstein
Gifted Kids NetworkPresented at:
Colorado Association for the Gifted and Talented
Annual Conference
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221st Century Competencies
Examples of “21st Century competencies” include:
- Creativity and Innovation
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Agility, adaptability and capacity for lifelong learning
- Teamwork and collaboration in virtual teams
- Initiative, self direction and entrepreneurialism
- Effective oral and written communication
- Proficiency in the mother tongue
- Multiple languages and cultural awareness
- Effectively accessing and analyzing information
- Digital competence
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3Technology Goals
Technological literacy goals:
- Students will use technology to seek, organize, and communicate information and ideas.
- Students will use technology to reach academic and individual goals.
- Students will use technology to promote creative potential, solve problems, and create products.
- Students will be able to evaluate technology and use technology ethically.
- Students will develop life-long technology skills.
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4Create online book discussions for students to participate in.
Student will gain experience and competence in responding to literature and writing persuasive paragraphs.
http://voicethread.com/share/376772/
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5VoiceThread for Writing
Kindergarten VoiceThread Increase creativity by allowing students to write and read what they've written. They take ownership of their writing because it's published on the web. They love the headphone microphones. Student will continue to develop their individual writing style, concentrating on 6 Traits (ideas, sentence fluency, organization, word choice, voice, and conventions) and will publish at least one story on VoiceThread.
http://voicethread.com/share/451086/
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6Issuu
Increase motiviation for writing with web based publishing. Student will continue to develop their individual writing style, concentrating on 6 Traits (ideas, sentence fluency, organization, word choice, voice, and conventions) and will publish at least one story on Issuu.
http://issuu.com/gknstudents/docs/spottytheseabassnoheinreduced
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7Collaborative Writing
http://issuu.com/missmichelle/docs/animals_should_definately
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8Glogster
Student will create a multimedia project for at least one core unit which demonstrates advanced analysis and synthesis of the material learned.
http://calebgkn.edu.glogster.com/pinebeetles/
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9Museum Box
Student will create a multimedia project for at least one core unit which demonstrates advanced analysis and synthesis of the material learned.
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/documents/view/39928
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10Community Walk Map
http://www.communitywalk.com/endangered_species/map/207203
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Your turn,
Think about the tools we have explored. Select one student who you are working with this year and write a SMART goal for this student using one or more of the technology tools we have explored.
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12Timelines
http://www.timetoast.com/