My children's classrooms have little to do with the classrooms of my youth. Blackboards have been replaced by interactive smartboards. A flat screen TVs hang from the corner of the room. And during freetime, the kids take turn doing reading exercises on four iTouches. Technology not only helps them play, but it also fuels their learning.
One of the big milestones of first grade is an oral presentation project about an animal of their choice. The kids also got to pick a variety of formats to enhance their presentations. Jack selected stringrays and was thrilled that one of the options was doing a video. He was adamant that we needed to upload it to YouTube so he can finally show the world how much cooler he is than his nemesis Justin Bieber.
Complete with creative math and nose picking, the video just might go viral.
Thanks to the staying power of the Internet and YouTube, it will make a memory with more lasting power than one of the dioramas I painstakingly put together when I was a kid.
1 comments:
I love going back and seeing my son's videos from when he was younger (he is 16 now) - you will definitely treasure this!
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