elementary

I am doing a research project to receive my Masters.  The research project on what improves the reading and comprehension of students, particularly elementary school students.  I would appreciate a response to this survey.  Thank you in advance for your help.

What state is your school?

What is your gender?

What grade do you teach?

What is the average age of the students?

The classrooms you teach how many students have learning disabilities?

What are your teaching goals and methods?

What are your students' reading habits?

What are your reading comprehension strategies?

How do you give reading comprehension instruction?

This week we are learning about constructivism and how we can integrate technology in this learning theory. Constructivism is a theory that says that people learn best when they are able to create an artifact and share it with their peers. Michael Orey presented the fact that power point is a great tool to have students create an artifact. I my first grade classroom, used Kidspiration to create artifacts. I can utilize technology to make a project-based, problem based, or inquiry based approaches seem more approaches more seamless is by using literacy centers.

I am about to embark on my 1st full year of 1:1 computing in a third grade classroom!!! I teach 3rd grade at Beard Elementary School (K-6) in Fort Smith, AR. I have read articles, books, websites, blogs, research reports, etc. about 1:1 in the classroom, but an overwhelming majority has been 4-12 grade classrooms. K-3 classrooms are very different creatures from these other grades as children are learning skills to learn other content materials. My blog will be a record of my journey of integrating technology into the classroom, as a tool -not as novelty.