We are also using iPads and Edmodo to learn. To begin this journey, we ALL need to be prepared to fail and to fail repeatedly. It is easier to stumble, fall, and make a lot of mistakes early in our learning, when the content and details aren't the focus, than later, when the content and learning are the focus.
Ms. Leom is putting up learning on Edmodo. Students are accessing the learning, transferring it to Adobe Acrobat, annotating over the page, saving it, attaching it to the assignment, and submitting it back to Edmodo. There are a "few" other steps in between. With all these steps, not to mention our big fingers, and technical glitches that happen, we are ALL learners, and finding our way.
Our lessons start with, "You will likely feel frustrated today." And, "You might lose everything you worked on in class." It will be ok. "You might even have to start over repeatedly." Modeling how to smile, laugh, and smirk when things don't go as planned are part of the lesson plan. Encouraging students to look at each other's papers, ask questions, try, try again, help each other, find our patience ... all of these skills are part of the learning.
Some of the greatest lessons are not in "never falling, but in rising every time we fall" (from Confucius). As I walk around the room, as I read the learning students are submitting through Edmodo, we have several areas we can work on and develop ... being a safe place to try ... we are far from failing.
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