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Imagine being able to bring in experts from anywhere on any subject to teach, inspire, and
motivate YOUR students.
Imagine being able to talk to an author of a book your class just finished reading, and ask him
or her questions about the book.
Imagine conversing and collaborating with a class half-way around the world.
The ‘Hype’ about Skype
According to Educators Move Beyond the Hype of Skype from Education Week, “…targeted use of
Skype can bring pedagogical benefits, whether it makes students conduct research necessary for a
video presentation more seriously, encourages instructors to focus on broader concepts instead of
individual problems because tracing and fixing student work directly is more difficult, or exposes
students and teachers to real-time technology problem-solving.”
The Future Generation
We are preparing students for the 21st century and technology is one of the tools they will
use most often.
Let’s teach them to use these tools in a safe environment.
That includes…
Showing students to use built-in security features and instructing them not to put
personal details in their profiles that will be publicly available.
Students must learn how to spot scams and fraudulent sites, how to block unwanted requests, password security, and online
etiquette.
Is it hard to use???
Nope!
Login with your username & password.
Look to see who is online.
Click on their name.
Click call!
Login
Benefits for learners include: – improved learning strategies
– greater perseverance, and reduced need for help from the instructor
– Social interaction provides critical opportunities for learners who are learning at a distance
– The types of social interactions that would normally occur in a face-to-face setting (discussion, sharing, peer review, group activities, etc.) need to occur via online technologies and tools in online learning environments
– Internet technologies offer opportunities to connect people and objects that are not in the immediate physical environment. Using Skype in the online classroom improves social interaction and helps to create an authentic peer review environment.
Virtual Field Trips
Use video chatting to bring the field trip into the classroom – for example, visiting a TV production site guided by one of the student´s parents who works there, which includes all students despite
budgetary or distance constraints.
Students can’t afford to go on a field trip?No Problem-o!
Skype for iPad
References
• http://www.njea.org/news-and-publications/njea-review/september-2011/skype-in-the-classroom
• https://education.skype.com/• http://edtechideas.com/2011/04/05/rationale
-for-using-skype-in-the-classroom/
Integrated Unit Ideas
Unit: The Great DepressionStandard: Explain how the Great Depression and
New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans (GPS) (5SS_G2008-50)
Lesson 1:
• Introduce the Great Depression.• Popcorn read the chapter on the great depression.• I will have my grandpa Skype the class and
pretend like he lived during the great depression. • The students would be able to ask him what it
was like, and he would be able to share stories that actually could have happened during that time.
Lesson 2
• The students will go to the computer lab and Skype a class from across the country, and will discuss the things they know about the Great Depression.
