7th graders received their brand new MacBook Pros and started their one-to-one laptop journey with a Mac Orientation in their second week of school. The orientation program had two goals: to catch students up on the basics, and to prepare them for a new kind of classroom experience. In one-to-one classrooms, 7th graders are often required to show their learning with slide presentations, so students learned the best practices for designing effective slides and how to cite images and sources in a presentation. They applied these skills to create a presentation on an important invention of the 20th century using Google Slides. In a one-to-one Geography classroom, Google Earth can be accessed at any time. Because of this, students learned to use this app by taking part in a virtual scavenger hunt in which they used coordinates to find certain mystery locations on Earth. They also learned to use the ruler tool, historical imagery slider, and the Street View tool to locate their neighborhood, see how it looked it the past, and determine the distance between home and school.
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