Study+Group+1

=**﻿Welcome to Study Group One's Wiki Page! **=

__**Here's what you will find here, in this order:**__
 **Group members are:** Barbara, Joanna, Cheryl, Stacey H-T, Joyce, Lauren H, Elizabeth 
 * **Members of the Group**
 * **Photos of technology at work at WMS**
 * **Our Initial Action Plan **
 * **Our Technology Essential Question**
 * **Our Technology Big Idea**
 * **Our Technology Transfer Goal**
 * **Many, many resources with links to useful websites**
 * **Questions raised by members**
 * **Discussions of applications to Betty Garner's work**

** __Our Initial Action Plan__ -** Referring to our cultural curriculum goals (CCG) we will examine current technology at WMS, evaluate its effectiveness, and find new resources we can incorporate to help us meet our CCGs

 __**1st Essential Question**__ - How do we use technology to reach our cultural curriculum and UbD planning goals?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> __**Big Idea**__ **-** Various technologies are essential tools for comunication, socialization, and global awareness

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> __**Transfer Goal**__ **-** We want the students to be able to use technology so that in the long run they will be comfortable using those tools, and trying new forms of technology, to reach their potential as global citizens.

=<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Resources**__ = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Here is a link to all our web resources** : =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[[file:Links for our wiki.docx]]
<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">We shared the following articles or parts of articles, which are available on the P: Drive. ** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Go to 'Study Groups,' then 'Study Group Technology Articles:'** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">﻿<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"There's an App for (almost) Everything" **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** "Technology Ideas for Montessorians" **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** "Fifty Ways to Use Your Flip" (camera) **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** "Lights, Camera, Action...Science Friday" **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** "Empowering images: Using Photography as a Medium to Develop Visual Literacy" **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** "Using Websites to Learn" **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** "Are Your Students Using Wikis to Strengthen Vocabulary Skills?" **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">**Questions raised:**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">** ﻿* When does using technology become too much? ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">** * At what cost do we utilize technology? ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">** * What happens to paper and pencils and books? **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">** ﻿ Betty Garner's Work - Topics of discussion:**

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__**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ongoing discussion: **__
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- The importance of sorting (by color, size, shape, texture; asking children to suggest categories; allowing children to discover similarities and differences on their own) **=====
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Use of "What do you see; what do you notice," with all age levels with various materials and topics **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- "Beautiful Thoughts" exercise, which led to Joyce's classroom activity becoming the class auction gift (See below) **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- What is happening that expresses to us that children are or aren't "getting" the big ideas (in any curricular area or topic)? If they're not "getting it," what are the hurdles and how can we get over them? Are any of the hurdles embedded in Betty Garner's constructs? **