Google Docs are going to be the future of education. They are free and "green" in the sense of the environment. The money that could be saved using google docs might change a lot of the budget.
I appreciated what a fellow colleague had to offer to the class. I was interested to see how someone would use and was in use. There are so many uses. The example shown offered excellent daily use of the laptops and places more responsibility on the students. Papers do not go missing on google docs.
I would plan to use google docs for spreadsheets and data collection of experiments. We could look at many other students' data from other places. We could continuously track data of all experiments and note trends for classes. Using data from other schools would offer a bigger picture for my students. Organizationally, this may be the answer many students are looking for.
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Good learning this week, Wendy. Google Docs is the richest of all the applications we explore, so I know you spent a lot of time with it. I hope you get to try it with your students. The more teachers who use it at Memorial, the more familiar the students will be and the shorter the learning curve.
ReplyDeleteNow on to the next application this week.....