Tech Junkies

My fourth graders have been spending the last couple of lessons discussing teamwork and the importance of learning how to work well with others at an early age.  We have equated this with a baseball team, talking about how there are observers, participants and helpers and how each has a very important roll to play.  The kiddos have grasped this concept and taken off with it!  It has been a pleasure to watch them learn to work with one another and encourage one another.  I am truly seeing teamwork play out! 

After I broke the kiddos into groups of three, their assignment was to peruse from a list of 10 creative activities, choose one as a group and create it.  The catch this year though, is that instead of handing out large sheets of construction paper, the kids were able to use their iPads to aid in their creative process.  And I must say...I was impressed!  Even though the pictures may appear that they are not "working" together...what the pictures failed to capture were the conversations they were all having while working on gathering things for their projects.  In the all the years that I've done this lesson I have not had 100% participation.  There was always at least one or two kiddos who just would not actively participate.  But not this year...the technology has created little tech junkies...but hey..at least they are reading, learning and working together!  :)