Watch Your Colleagues in One-Minute Spotlights

The Learning NOW One-Minute Spotlight video series highlights some of the many ways Barrington 220 students are learning across the district with technology in episodes that are about one minute long. The series aims to create a better understanding in the Barrington community about how students learn now and how the classroom environment has changed with the addition of a technology device in the hands of each student.

Here are some recent episodes featuring teachers and students at several Barrington 220 schools in a variety of grade levels.

Students in Luci Dvorak's Barrington High School Freshman English class use iPad to create story arcs and character development for original short story compositions:



Students in Katy McCullough's Barrington Middle School-Prairie social studies class use use iPad to create sketchnotes to demonstrate learning:



Students in Sarah Ogan's Barrington Middle School-Prairie art class use iPad and Adobe Photoshop to create stunning dreamcast visuals:



Grade 2 Teacher Abigail Hamilton at Sunny Hill Elementary uses the Classkick app on iPad to give her students informal learning assessments and then provide real-time feedback and personalized assistance during the school day:



Students in Ms. Meckert's Grade 3 class at Hough Street Elementary use Notability, Explain Everything, and Classkick on iPad to differentiate feedback after a tough test:



Students in Ms. Christianson and Ms. Haney's Grades 3-5 class at Hough Street School engage in a multi-part poetry project that allows them to analyze, create, post, and perform poems in different mediums in digital and analog formats:



Students in Ms. Hillard's Grade 1 class at Barbara Rose Elementary use Seesaw for a math activity on the 100th day of school to learn different ways to count to 100 using tens frames:



You may always visit the Learning NOW YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/learningnow220.