I am excited that the Morgridge Family Foundation awarded a matching grant to my school to purchase and use 10 chromebooks in my classroom. My school backed the plan finding funds to match the grant. It started with Khan Academy sending an email about this grant as a way to use Khan more (more devices); really what this has done is get my mind running about how I would divide up the time in my math room. How I could differentiate more, I could use technology in place of pencil and paper practice.
My plan is to split the classroom into time sections and groups using Khan as a practice device - using the mastery challenges and target practice sections to help with skills. This will be a way to target instruction to groups more, it will allow to review a concept and then have the targeted practice where the student has to be correct. (The problem with worksheets is that students can learn incorrectly.)
This grant seems timely because I had made some leaps in my desire to use technology more efficiently - but had not done much differently in the past couple of months. This grant will allow me to try some things as the year winds down, try somethings and see if we can make how I am reaching students more effective. (Also - I push curriculum hard Sep - April, because my phrase is what I teach in May goes away.)
So thanks to Morgridge Family!
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