Digital Learning Farms

                Jobs kid should do

a.       Designing tutorial

-          Homework will contribute to the good of the whole instead of the individual.

-          Create tutorial groups in classroom by using screen casting software

-          Screencastomatic is free

b.      Podcast reviews

-          Curriculum review teams of kids

-          Have a chart of jobs that change from week to week

-          The learner owns the learning – not the teacher

-          Review last week’s entire work on Monday of every week

-          Gcast.com make a podcast from your cell phone

c.       Curriculum research

-          If kids do Skype with other cultures, they can record it and burn it to a DVD for another kid to take home

d.      Critical thinking on the web

-          Give them problem after problem to have them research

-          Don’t accept all Google search results

-          Have a daily researcher to sit at the computer to find factual answers

-          Teach kids to find patterns of answers

-          Globalize their thinking

e.      Official Scribe

-          Use social bookmarks and RSS feeds with KIDS!

-          Kids aren’t taking notes – only one student – the others are freed up to ask questions and ingest information