This past week, I had the pleasure of visiting Vass-Lakeview Elementary and see how some of the 5th graders there are using their Chromebooks. VLE has only been 1:1 with students for approximately 7 months and it was great to see the creative work the students are already deeply involve with!One of the teachers' rooms I visited was Stacey Deaton. Stacey has been teaching for 7 years, all in Moore County Schools (and she is also a product of MCS!). After 1/2 a year teaching 2nd, she has spent the last 6.5 teaching 5th grade.
It was immediately obvious that Chromebooks were not an add-on in this room- they were very much a natural extension of the learning tasks at hand. Some students were working in inquiry-based ways, creating Google slideshows of images that represented current vocabulary words (which they will subsequently show their classmates, who would have to guess which word was being alluded to). I also saw some great, creative examples of students showing mastery of content.
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"Using Chromebooks have benefited student learning in my classroom because they are more engaged than ever before. They have fun working on projects and they are able to do more creating. It is also more relevant to the world that they are living in now."
-Stacey Deaton, 5th grade teacher, Vass-Lakeview Elementary
Student Work Samples:
Movenote (Support Materials here)
Jordan C - Vocabulary MovenoteJournie T - Vocabulary Movenote
GoAnimate (Support Materials here)
Rebecca C - Animation about Thomas PaineKaden T - Animation about John Adams
Thanks so much for all the work you do for your students, Ms. Deaton!
-Steve Johnson
Lead Digital Integration Facilitator
Moore County Schools
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