Kindergarteners+Using+Google+Docs

Here's a neat idea: Two kindergarten teachers, Becky Harvey and Leanna Wright from Brownsville SD were playing with GoogleDocs - writing back and forth in color. - talking about they could use the idea in kindergarten. They decided to use a doc to text messages back and forth between their classrooms. When I pressed to find out why they needed technology - they described how they now teach kids to write a message properly, slip the paper under the other class' door, and repeat, refining the writing skills as it goes. We realized together that if EVERY kindergarten kid (or first/second grader for that matter) had two teachers model appropriate message creation in this digital way, we would, in effect teach appropriate text ettiquite from a very early age. Kinda a big idea I think. Bravo to the two ladies for the simple transformation of a tool during inquiry based PD!

Lesson idea from: Mara Linaberger, Ed.D., Curriculum Specialist Program Director, Center for Creativity, Arts & Technology Intermediate Unit One