Digital ID

This week our students developed alternate identities for themselves by imagining what they wish they could do better than anyone in the world. We wanted to keep our assignment general so that our students would come up with a variety of secret identities instead of designing a class full of superheroes. While there were some ideas that involved powers like teleportation, many of our students simply choose to be better at everyday things that they already enjoy, such as drawing and ice skating. After our students planned out there idenities on a handout and we designed an ID card for their new idnetity in Photoshop.

Initially, I was concerned that the students were to young to be using photoshop for anything productive. I was also concerned that it would be difficult to monitor the activities of twenty one students in a computer lab and keep them on task. Occasionally, we would catch students trying to play games or browse the internet, but for the most part they were very focused. As usual, i was extremely impressed by our students maturity and their ability to learn new skills quickly. Our lesson was designed as a step by step process using a template that would be easy for all of our students to follow. Several of our students had more experienced with technology than others and were able to work ahead of the class. Some of the students even surprised me with their ability in taking pictures and videos in Photobooth. I tried to keep my instructions as simple as possible and even the inexperienced students followed along attentively. In the end, the whole class completed the project successfully and for once, there were no technology related problems. I learned that even young students today are very capable with technology and you should not underestimate their intelligence because of their age.