Getting Attention in the Laptop Classroom - 10 views
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Ryan Rydstrom on 23 Jun 13Many of the same observations from teachers this year with 1:1.
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The class began with all seats facing forward. The teacher points to a chart on the white board showing fastest times for 8 different furniture arrangements in this class (list). She holds up a stopwatch.
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While there is now software available to allow such monitoring from the teacher's computer, most teachers must rely upon a technique we will call eyeballing.
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when I need the full attention of the class for 5-10 minutes, I will ask them to swivel around and join me. They turn their eyes forward on me and the screen
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A teacher who ignores landscape in laptop classrooms is likely to encounter difficulties with classroom management.
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2-3 year professional development offering that would focus on equipping all teachers with these moves, tactics and strategies
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laptops as just one element within a complex array of tools that extends to mundane items such as blackout curtains and chair
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were the most frequent uses of compu
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online research, productivity tools, drill and practice, and eCommunications
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teachers need opportunities to learn what instruction and assessment practices, curricular resources and classroom management skills work best in a 1:1 student to networked laptop classroom setting.
