Today we talked about using spreadsheets in our classrooms. They can be great tools for the teachers. It is a great way to store data, whether it is grades, assignments, and pretty much any other thing that you can think of. That way, we could even make charts that would show where all our students are at, or who is falling behind. As far as participating with the class, you can take surveys with your students, make data charts, and all that good stuff. We did a chart with M & M's and the colors that people had in their packets. For the younger grades I wouldn't think that they would be able to use spreadsheets as much, but as the teacher you could still record data. With the older grades it would be a lot of fun :) I think there are a lot of positive ways that you could use these programs.
We also learned how to do surveys in google docs. This would be a fun activity for the kids! They can see what they like as opposed to their friends and any time that kids will love anything that they can do with technology.
I also wouldn't use this for the young grades. It would be an amazing tool for older grades though and help them be better prepared for their later years of schooling. I think this stuff is amazing and should be taught to high school students. It would be so nice to have learned this stuff for some of the things I had to do then.
ReplyDeleteI think you could do a class project with younger grades and it would still be a lot of fun. Older kids could just do one on their own.
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