Last year I shared some work I did with integrating technology into different parts of our Global Read Aloud work with Refugee. This year my school read The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman for GRA 19.
I wanted to share the wrap up stations that I had set up in the library for students when we finished the book. Some students chose to try a few different things and some went all in on one. Some of these do require equipment/kits (i.e. Bloxels) or require a little digital setup ahead of time (i.e. Flipgrid grids), but none were labor intensive. These were the stations:
The most exciting part for me was seeing the Ozobot station going exactly how I had hoped with some students. In fact, some students exceeded my expectations! If you go to this Instagram post, you can see two videos of two different students talking me through the Ozobot path they had created with the color coded marker's to represent Viji's journey through the story. (Viji is the main character.) These videos show problem solving, analyzing literature, thinking metaphorically and symbolically, and communicating thinking! A few teachers have talked to me since about how to integrate them possible into their classroom, which is part of the goal, right? There are A LOT of reasons why I do these stations. It's intentional. But I'd be lying if I said one of the many reasons wasn't to demonstrate how hands on or technological making can tie into books and other subject areas.
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