The Irish Teach

Fakebook Reflection

Posted by Heather Kilgallon , Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:35 PM

http://www.classtools.net/fb/42/CVDkEe


Above is a link to one of my student's "Fakebook" pages for Psychology.  I'm pretty impressed with the higher level thinking & creativity in this 'Fakebook" page, as well as the 60 others I'm still grading. 


The "Fake Book" website:  http://classtools.net/fb/home/page 
has some "kinks" to work through, but it was a great way to assess my students understanding of "their" psychologist for our speed dating-Get-to-Know-Psychologists  activity.  


The not-so tech savvy kids struggled with parts of creating the fakebook page, but I gave them time & allowed for them to print a copy, just in case they had tech issues.  To save a fakebook page, the kids get their own individualized link.  I could not stress enough to copy & paste that link in lots of "places."  


Though most of our kids seem to be very tech savvy, one student put it this say..."I'm good with technology, just not school technology."    What my student said stuck with me because we need to remember they still need guidance to use tech for learning, just because they can win at a fastest text messaging contest or participated in the 30 days of posting pics on Facebook challenge,  doesn't mean they can create a Prezi, Fakebook, Podcast, etc. for learning and understanding. 


Basically, when planning tech lessons, plan for some learning and playing time.  Really our students, the digital natives, do learn tech faster, but they require some "play" time to work through it because that is what they get at home.  Have you ever heard them say, "I'm still getting used to my new phone" or maybe you have said that?  They need to get "used" to learning and creating with new web tools.  So, basically allow for some "play" time for them and watch what THEY CAN TEACH YOU! 

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