Using Technology to Promote Rigor: From Frills to Thrills!

Indicators of Technology Integration

• Please login to Edmodo and complete the reflection on the primary use of technology in your school.

Examples of Technology

• List some activities that you see often in classrooms that involve technology.

• Are the students being consumers or producers of the technology?

Turn and Talk: How does this impact the level of rigor? (post on Edmodo)

Technology and Revised Bloom’s

Balanced Literacy and Technology

• Modeled – I do, you watch

• Shared – We do, but I hold the book/pen

• Guided – You do, I watch and help

• Collaborative – You both do, help each other

• Independent – You do by yourself

Which component(s) could be best

enhanced through the use of

technology?

Activity #1Templeton is a character that “had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything”

What would the barn be like if all the animals were like Templeton?

Please enter your response in your e-journal: https://penzu.com/journals

Reflection

• Go to Edmodo and answer the following:– Which Reading Anchor Standard(s) did this activity

meet?– Which is the highest level of Revised Bloom’s

Taxonomy that is evident through this activity?

Activity #2When Charlotte heard the announcer’s words, she thought, “this was her hour of triumph.”

How is it Charlotte’s hour of triumph when Wilbur is the one who won the award?

Using the Croak it! App:• Respond to the question.• Email your response to your face partner.• Using the tagline, “That’s interesting thinking. I

think…” to respond and send back.

Reflection

• Go to Edmodo and answer the following:– Which Reading Anchor Standard(s) did this activity

meet?– Which is the highest level of Revised Bloom’s

Taxonomy that is evident through this activity?

Activity #3• Charlotte’s Web follows a friendship from its beginning

to its end, including all the steps in between. • Choose either Wilbur and Fern’s friendship or Wilbur

and Charlotte’s friendship, and trace the way it grows and changes over the course of the story. How did the friendship begin? Do the two characters grow closer or drift apart? Why?

• Use the StoryKit App to create a short book (2-3 pages) that traces the friendship of your choice.

• Share your book with someone at another table (this is done through the App).

Reflection

• Go to Edmodo and answer the following:– Which Reading Anchor Standard(s) did this activity

meet?– Which is the highest level of Revised Bloom’s

Taxonomy that is evident through this activity?

Activity #4Select a Reading Anchor Standard.

• Use the Lesson Plan template in Edmodo to create an extension activity for the excerpt provided that meets the selected Anchor Standard.

http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

• Be sure to integrate technology (consider the devices you have at your site)!

• Please name the file: group name_activity 4. Go to Edmodo, click Turn In, and upload the document.

“Live” Assessment

• Provides students an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding through a live performance.– Collaborative and active– Flexible: can be used for formative or summative

assessment– Integrates Reading, Writing, Speaking and

Listening standards

How can we use technology to infuse rigor in literacy?

Select one of the following “Live” Assessments to answer the question:• Song Parody• Talk Show• Poetry• Reader’s Theatre

Poll Time!

Please take a moment to answer the poll regarding the activities you participated in today!