By Noah Mickey-Colman, M. Ed. Academic Interventionist – Los Amigos Technology Academy, Sunnyside Unified School District

With a few simple tools and a willingness to try new things anyone can begin to integrate more technology into their nutrition education lessons.

Student Engagement Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Documents Mobile Devices

Try it first (twice!) Plan well Set clear expectations and rules Handling Behavior Responsibility Appropriateness Enforce your rules Be open to giving up some control Student centered learning Be open to learning from your students Try it again the day you are going to do it Have fun and learn together

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Student engagement Keeps students responsive to lesson Holds them accountable for staying engaged (number of responses) They like it! Instant feedback Receive data on students understanding of lesson Take polls, give pop quizzes, quick check for understanding, votes Anonymous

Set expectations Set expectations and answer requirements Multiple choice You create the question You create all the answers Students choose from the answers you provide and you get instant graphical data Open Ended You create the question Students type or text their own answers

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Facebook Twitter Word Clouds Blogs Podcasts Wikis Interactive documents

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Be sure to get parent permission and go over expectations ahead of time Twitter Students tweet information relating to projects or record- keeping Food journal Activity journal Pedometer counts Facebook Create a Facebook page related to nutrition education Let/assign the responsibility of making posts to your students

Teach kids responsible use of technology and digital citizenship Teach kids technology skills vital to survival in our evolving world of technology Do something other than a poster! Increase student engagement Increase student motivation Shift record-keeping to your students = reduce your workload Have fun and learn something yourself!

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Gives users ability to create, edit, and publish documents in real time via web connection. Allows multiple users to work on one document together in person or off site Allows different people to see someones work without the necessity of s, attachments, or physical proximity Free if you use google docs

Google docs Free Online storage Sharing features – own, edit, view Word processing, presentation tool, spreadsheet, draw/paint Education accounts can be obtained on a district or classroom level

Use spreadsheet to record an eating or activity journal Can track calories consumed or calories burned Graph these individually or together on same graph Can do individual students and share it with teacher for review or can do whole class and see whole class data on one spreadsheet and graph Can do pedometer recording on spreadsheet and then graph steps

Use presentation to create a collaborative presentation on nutrition or activity Create groups of students Research a nutrition or physical activity concept Students create collaborative presentations (powerpoints) that they share with you for review and editing Create a collaborative class virtual cookbook complete with nutrition facts

What are examples of mobile devices that people use commonly?

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Why is this so darn important when it comes to teaching our students?

Most kids have access to one if you dont have them at your school This gives you the option of a one to one or almost one to one classroom This allows you to think outside the box and expand on projects you can do in the classroom

Have kids use iPods, smart phones, tablets or digital cameras to take pictures of the food they are eating over a period of time. They then use those photos and that data to do research on the nutrition facts. They can turn that into a presentation, narrated movie, graphs and charts, etc.

Have kids use devices to take record video or take pictures of themselves, classmates, friends, community members taking part in physical activity. They then use those artifacts to create a multimedia presentation about physical activity. Themes can include: What are different types of physical activity? How many calories do different types burn? Teach a new physical activity to others. Any ideas of your own?

A new twist on the original No longer writing down a name of item or collecting them Use device to take photo of different items Show photos to teacher to complete Or create presentation and share or show it to class or teacher Can use QR codes to design each step of it or students can create their own Post each QR code next to items in hunt As they figure out what each item is they discover QR code Scan it and receive next clue

Students can film public service announcements related to healthy eating Create teams Introduce what PSAs are, watch examples, critique Select themes for own PSAs Research Storyboard Film Edit Publish Vote (optional) See lesson plan handout

How many of your schools do daily announcements? Who does them? Do you use video or is it just audio?

You can have your students do a short segment each week for the daily announcements Record video giving a nutrition tip related to school lunch Record video giving physical activity tips Record video doing general nutrition tips or nutrition education Can upload videos to file hosting sites like schooltube or youtube if your district allows it. Send link to teachers to watch when it fits into their lessons or everyone watches first thing in morning

Try it first (twice!) Plan well Set clear expectations and rules Handling Behavior Responsibility Appropriateness Enforce your rules Be open to giving up some control Student centered learning Be open to learning from your students Try it again the day you are going to do it Have fun and learn together

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