Padlet Dinosaurs in the Dark

Reading Dinosaurs in the Dark

UEN:

Standard 3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Education Technology:

Standard 7 Use telecommunications and online resources (e.g., email, online discussions, web environments) to participate in collaborative problem-solving activities to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (4, 5)

ISTE:

Knowledge Constructor, Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

The tool that I chose to use was Padlet, it is a fun and interactive tool.  You create a cork board where you can pin information and questions that students can look at and add to.  This is a fun resource to use to add information onto, it’s a virtual cork board.  It would be good to use if you want to keep information together about subjects or also if you have questions. This would be a great way to get students to collaborate with one another. On this you can ask and answer questions, post information on the topic, and opinions that you have.  It’s a great way for students to learn from one another.

Pros of this tool is that it is a great way to collaborate with others. You can add pictures, videos, anything that you want to a post.  It gets students to think more in depth about what they are learning. It’s was also fun and easy to create, you can teach any subject with this and it would be useful.

Cons of this tool are that it wouldn’t work very well for younger aged students, it might be a little hard to navigate and understand.  The Padlet that I did was for first graders, which now after creating it, I think that for younger students it might be a little bit difficult to use.  To use this with younger grades you would need to present it as a lesson more than something that they would do by themselves.

I could use this tool to present information to students by allowing them to look at the information that I have included and then we can go over what they think about it and what the Padlet was about.  For the older grades, you can introduce information to the students and they will be able to use this to add their own ideas.   

My students can use this tool to collaborate with each other.  They can make their own Padlet about whatever subject they want and their classmates can ask and answer questions that they may have or know.  This would be a good tool for 5th and 6th graders, they can use it to work with each other to introduce, clarify, and question what they know and what they want to know.