Stellar Project Parent Night

The STELLAR Project Here at Collazo Cove!

What is The STELLAR Project?A 1:1 laptop pilot initiative at J.R.

Ingram Elementary in which a classroom of 4th graders will be given access to netbook laptops

while in school and at home.

Goals of the STELLAR ProjectTO ALLOW STUDENTS TO CREATE,

CONNECT, AND COLLABORATEToday's students are digital natives who learn

by doing, creating, and collaborating with others. The use of on demand laptops will allow our students to be using these high

level skills continually, at school and at home.

Goals of the STELLAR Project

Many of our students do not have the opportunity to use the tools of

technology once they leave school. This creates an unnecessary divide

between those students who are able to go home and gain further 21st

century skills and those who do not have this access. The STELLAR

Project aims to provide these 24/7 opportunities to all children!

TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD

Goals of the STELLAR ProjectTO BECOME A PAPERLESS

CLASSROOMNot so much for the goal of saving

paper (although that is an added plus), but for saving our children's learning

time from monotonous and non-meaningful tasks.

Goals of the STELLAR ProjectTO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE OF

RELEVANT LEARNING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Today’s students are extremely social, create understanding differently, and are

very comfortable using computers for learning.

Goals of the STELLAR ProjectTO REMOVE THE "WALLS" OF THE CLASSROOM; TO

CREATE TRANSPARENCY FOR AND COLLABORATION WITH PARENTS AND THE

COMMUNITYThe STELLAR Project aims at being proactive in demonstrating to the community other means of

assessing our students; through the transparency of wikis, blogs, podcasts, and other uses of Web 2.0 tools.

What will the rest of our year look like?

ReadingTraditional Reading

TasksSTELLAR Reading

Tasks

WritingTraditional Writing

TasksSTELLAR Writing

Tasks

This will be our kids!

Picture CreditsSlide 2 -

http://www.educationstation.ca/images/new-website-girl-on-laptop.jpg

Slide 3 - http://www.kiddyapps.co.uk/images/kids_with_laptops.jpg

Slide 4 - http://www.centraldenverblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Blogging_20in_20Bed.jpg

Slide 5 - http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/sss/ilscommunity/archive08/learningspaces/images/wireless/four.jpg

Slide 6 - http://blog.squaretrade.com/images/2008/07/31/300pxkid_laptop_2.jpg

Slide 7 - http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339294000/kid_1.jpg