Week+9

=Short and Sweet=


 * Literacy Is Not Enough - Ian Jukes
 * Technology is necessary to engage our students learning potential, but the way things are done now limits fluency, especially creative fluency. If we can embrace technology, then we can play to the strengths of our students and give them creative potential.
 * Five Main Fluencies:

 Wordle is a program that creates word clouds, as a way to brainstorm ideas or collect thoughts. It could also be used simply for artistic purposes.
 * 1) Solution
 * 2) Information
 * 3) Creativity
 * 4) Media
 * 5) Collaboration

Photoshop is a great tool for editing photos for multiple purposes. It could be used to manipulate images as a tool for instruction, or using the program have students manipulate their own images to express their interpretive meaning. It would also be good as a way of encouraging students to be creative for something like Student Council, or other clubs/events around the school.