Sunday, February 7, 2016

Artifact II: Google Drawing in Google Classroom

I LOVE GOOGLE DRAWING (G.Drawing).  A colleague and I used Google classroom to assign a concept sort on functions.  We wanted to avoid using paper and scissors and glue because to takes so much extra time to prep and then time is lost on cutting and pasting.  With Google Drawing, we had to create the electronic copy of the sort and then assign it to the students.  The students did AMAZING when it came to troubleshooting technology issues.  They worked together to discuss the vocabulary words.  Students who couldn't remember the definitions went to Google and looked up the definition.  There were very little issues with using the technology.  As I was creating the lesson, I asked myself: can they use this on their phones?  The answer was no.  The phones opened the G.Drawing as a PDF and they would not have been able to move the images around.  Students who did not have a Surface device were forced to work with a partner.  They loved the sort because they could work at their own pace, they were constructing something based off of what they knew, while also looking for information they did not know.  Attached are some pictures of student work and the template we used.  We stacked the images on top of each other to keep the sort organized, but the kids did not care for it.  They all moved the answers to the side of the concept map and then put their items where they belonged.

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