Using Chromebooks for Learning!

Room 4 have started using their Chromebooks more as a tool for their learning. 

The advantages to this are:

• Students can learn anytime, anywhere (especially if they have a device at home too)

• Online access broadens the scope of any learning exercise, information pursuit, creative thinking, communication and collaboration.

• It's more inclusive - learning can be tailored to meet many more needs in the classroom in an engaging way.

• With GAFE (Google Apps for Education), each student has their email, drive and can access many apps/docs to create and share learning on.

In this picture, Flynn is using Google Docs to write his personal experience of the cross country. He took a photo of his whiteboard plan and has two screens up so he can see both easily. He needs his plan to remind himself what it is he going to write.

As he writes, Flynn uses a Chrome Extension called ReadWrite to help him edit his work. This reads it aloud to him while he is also reading it himself. His writing will soon be up on his blog so you can read and comment!

"I really like using the Chromebook for my learning. It's fun. It's a lot faster, I have a lot of ideas I can get down quickly. I reckon ReadWrite is a good tool for getting your punctuation in," explained Flynn.