This page aims at showing examples of Technology Integration to foster Creativity and Innovation skills in educational environments, especially in K-12 classes.
This is an example of a lesson plan that implements blogging practices in Kindergarten. The goal was to build strong relationships through daily communication that was relevant and also provide a window into the authentic learning opportunities that happen daily in the life of 5 and 6 year olds. This lesson plan addresses many of the Standards: Creativity and Innovation, Communication and Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making, Digital Citizenship and Technology Operations and Concepts. The technological resources used were blogs, flip videos and cameras. This activity is classified as a level 4 in the LoTi framework. The lesson instigates children to use technological tools and reflect on them, but due to their age and to a big number of students in the class the instructor is not able to take students to deeper levels such as applying and implementing their knowledge in interdisciplinary tasks.
At the movies
For this activity flip cameras will be used by the first and second-grade students to create many different kinds of movies to show their reading comprehension of a particular book, poem or literary genre. This lesson proposes an over-arching framework within which students can make their own choices, thus creating fluid groupings based upon interests and student choices, while enhancing creativity, collaboration and communication among all students. The used technologies are Audacity, Skype, Flip Sharing Group, and the class blog page. This activity can be considered at level 5 of the LoTi framework because they are engaged in authentic tasks, they are allowed to be inventive, they collaborate with other peers and students use higher-level cognitive skills when using technology to further enhance and showcase their reading comprehension.
At the movies
For this activity flip cameras will be used by the first and second-grade students to create many different kinds of movies to show their reading comprehension of a particular book, poem or literary genre. This lesson proposes an over-arching framework within which students can make their own choices, thus creating fluid groupings based upon interests and student choices, while enhancing creativity, collaboration and communication among all students. The used technologies are Audacity, Skype, Flip Sharing Group, and the class blog page. This activity can be considered at level 5 of the LoTi framework because they are engaged in authentic tasks, they are allowed to be inventive, they collaborate with other peers and students use higher-level cognitive skills when using technology to further enhance and showcase their reading comprehension.
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Students from 6th and 7th grades demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. The content for this lesson is directly proportional and linear relationships using verbal descriptions, tables, graphs, and formulas, and translate among these representations. As tools students use flip videos (or other video tools), mobile labs, a Wikispace and a Flickr account. This is a Level 4a activity since students are engaged in many mechanical tasks where they have to make calculations. There is an attempt to contextualize the content, but contextualization only happens after half of the lesson. Thus I would say problem-solving and creativity skills are more focused on last tasks.
Online - On Stage and Action!
This is a year long study in which 4th grade children are matched with a class in a foreign country. They use free Internet resources to communicate with each other and learn about each other’s language and culture. They research topics on the Internet and from print materials. Together they study a common topic, view a professionally produced play, receive coaching from a visiting artist and write, produce, and perform an original play that takes place in their partner location. The objectives are to integrate technology with social studies, language, character building and the arts. The children will learn how to use email to write a letter, to post messages on a website, to participate in a group project both on line and during the theater component, and learn about theater from both audience and actor points of view. In both communicating with their e-pals and writing their plays they will learn to work together to achieve a common goal. As for the LoTi framework, this is a Level 5 activity because K-5 students are allowed to create original works as a means of personal or group expression based on their knowledge of arts, interactions with peers and contextualized inquiry-based activities. They tools used are ThinkQuest and camcorders, as well as other free online tools.
Learn it in 5
Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slide sharing and much more. A lot of videos either focus on how to foster creativity or show strategies that could be used to develop students' creativity and innovation skills. Since this is not an actual lesson plan but a multi-link webpage, I would say most of the strategies can be applied as levels 5 or 6 of the LoTi framework.
Teaching with Creativity
This a nice video about how to develop and teach with creative, low-cost resources in a community from Ghana. This video helped teachers find strategies to use a variety of resources, learning materials and very simple but effective tools to improve learning. Despite showing students at most in Middle School, the strategies described in the video can be applied to different grade levels since Creativity has no limits. As for tools, they show since flashcards until writing outdoors on the ground. As for the LoTi framework, many strategies are explained and I believe they can all be applied in the level 6 if carefully thought out.
You can do it: creating how-to videos
This lesson was designed to teach 6-8th grease students how to create instructional media by selecting a curriculum-based topic, developing a unique way to present the information, and creating a video to share. As tools they use iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, open office, digital cameras and sample instructional videos. Students are allowed to pick a subject and a topic of interest to work on. This activity is very flexible and students can really work on a video about something they are passionate about. I would say this is a level 4b LoTi lesson. Even though students work on goal setting and work on a product collaboratively and creatively, they do not expand their activities beyond the classroom.
What is a maker space?
This is great activity to foster student creativity, innovation and collaboration. This is not a regular course, but it works more as a lab where students can drop in and work on whatever they feel like, there are no instructions or guidelines and they can get as creative as they want. Kids have recycled materials, iPads, laptops, a 3D printer and many other cool tools. I would say this is a level 6 in the LoTi level because children can engage in authentic, student-driven inquiries and activities, develop a product and even reflect on it.
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Empowering Student Voice through Makerspace
This is the results of an experience at Barrow Elementary School, in Athens, in which students are have their voices empowered through a diversity of activities on Maker Space, a moment when students engage in hands-on activities to build something they are passionate about. There is a video at the end of the post. As for the LoTi framework, I would say it is a level 5 activity because students really take their knowledge into interdisciplinary activities and applied it beyond the classroom.
Students from 6th and 7th grades demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. The content for this lesson is directly proportional and linear relationships using verbal descriptions, tables, graphs, and formulas, and translate among these representations. As tools students use flip videos (or other video tools), mobile labs, a Wikispace and a Flickr account. This is a Level 4a activity since students are engaged in many mechanical tasks where they have to make calculations. There is an attempt to contextualize the content, but contextualization only happens after half of the lesson. Thus I would say problem-solving and creativity skills are more focused on last tasks.
Online - On Stage and Action!
This is a year long study in which 4th grade children are matched with a class in a foreign country. They use free Internet resources to communicate with each other and learn about each other’s language and culture. They research topics on the Internet and from print materials. Together they study a common topic, view a professionally produced play, receive coaching from a visiting artist and write, produce, and perform an original play that takes place in their partner location. The objectives are to integrate technology with social studies, language, character building and the arts. The children will learn how to use email to write a letter, to post messages on a website, to participate in a group project both on line and during the theater component, and learn about theater from both audience and actor points of view. In both communicating with their e-pals and writing their plays they will learn to work together to achieve a common goal. As for the LoTi framework, this is a Level 5 activity because K-5 students are allowed to create original works as a means of personal or group expression based on their knowledge of arts, interactions with peers and contextualized inquiry-based activities. They tools used are ThinkQuest and camcorders, as well as other free online tools.
Learn it in 5
Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slide sharing and much more. A lot of videos either focus on how to foster creativity or show strategies that could be used to develop students' creativity and innovation skills. Since this is not an actual lesson plan but a multi-link webpage, I would say most of the strategies can be applied as levels 5 or 6 of the LoTi framework.
Teaching with Creativity
This a nice video about how to develop and teach with creative, low-cost resources in a community from Ghana. This video helped teachers find strategies to use a variety of resources, learning materials and very simple but effective tools to improve learning. Despite showing students at most in Middle School, the strategies described in the video can be applied to different grade levels since Creativity has no limits. As for tools, they show since flashcards until writing outdoors on the ground. As for the LoTi framework, many strategies are explained and I believe they can all be applied in the level 6 if carefully thought out.
You can do it: creating how-to videos
This lesson was designed to teach 6-8th grease students how to create instructional media by selecting a curriculum-based topic, developing a unique way to present the information, and creating a video to share. As tools they use iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, open office, digital cameras and sample instructional videos. Students are allowed to pick a subject and a topic of interest to work on. This activity is very flexible and students can really work on a video about something they are passionate about. I would say this is a level 4b LoTi lesson. Even though students work on goal setting and work on a product collaboratively and creatively, they do not expand their activities beyond the classroom.
What is a maker space?
This is great activity to foster student creativity, innovation and collaboration. This is not a regular course, but it works more as a lab where students can drop in and work on whatever they feel like, there are no instructions or guidelines and they can get as creative as they want. Kids have recycled materials, iPads, laptops, a 3D printer and many other cool tools. I would say this is a level 6 in the LoTi level because children can engage in authentic, student-driven inquiries and activities, develop a product and even reflect on it.
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Kelly Ickes, who teaches at Novak Elementary School in Marion, Iowa, submitted this week's lesson, a WebQuest about hiking Iowa's parks and trails.
Brief Description
Students research Iowa's parks and trails, plan a day trip to one of the places they learn about, and write a fiction story based on the information they find
- See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/00-1/lesson0026.shtml#sthash.jkkP1Giz.dpuf
This lesson plan described how students research Iowa's parks and trails, plan a trip to one of those places they learn about, and collaboratively write a fiction story based on the information they find. This is a nice plan to foster Collaboration and Communication and Creativity in K12 students. Even though there is no much clear evidence of which tools students use, I am sure they use search tools such as Google, websites and maps to identify the best park to visit. This lesson plan allows students to be Brief Description
Students research Iowa's parks and trails, plan a day trip to one of the places they learn about, and write a fiction story based on the information they find
- See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/00-1/lesson0026.shtml#sthash.jkkP1Giz.dpuf
Empowering Student Voice through Makerspace
This is the results of an experience at Barrow Elementary School, in Athens, in which students are have their voices empowered through a diversity of activities on Maker Space, a moment when students engage in hands-on activities to build something they are passionate about. There is a video at the end of the post. As for the LoTi framework, I would say it is a level 5 activity because students really take their knowledge into interdisciplinary activities and applied it beyond the classroom.
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