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I absolutely love that our students are 1:1 with Chrome Books.  Today as students were brainstorming about their "Moment in Time," I walked around and noticed a student with the Valley Fair map open on his desktop.  When I told them I needed a specific place for their personal narrative, he was taking me seriously.  During second hour, otters was mentioned for some reason, and I asked every student to stop mapping their moment and find me an image of an otter.  It was not helpful to the completion of their task, but I was humored.  Later when one of my afternoon classes was describing one of the plants in my room, I used the word variegate as a descriptive word, I quickly used a different word until I noticed at least three students were looking it up, "Are you looking up variegate?  What does it mean?"  Perhaps some learned a new word today.  Later in the day a student asked me how to spell ostrich.  "You have the Google machine in front of you,"  I stated.  This was followed by my request for everyone to find me their best ostrich image.  Life is good in 1:1 land!

I also had a student say I was "boss" this afternoon because I could make everyone be quiet, even the kids in the hall.  When the phy ed teacher let his class out ten minutes early, I needed the kids in the hall to be quiet, so my students in class could work.  For some reason, the kids in the hall did quiet although I'm not sure if boss is a good or bad thing.

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LH said…
I WANT THE CHROME BOOKS!

I hate the iPads!

6:08 AM
KC said…
I also love my 1:1 Chrome Books. I think they are superior to iPads for writing.
5:38 PM
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