I am very grateful to both Kenan Fellows and Lenovo for the opportunity to work with the Lenovo tablet throughout my Kenan Fellowship experience. The nature of the Lenovo tablet is perfect for the elementary classroom and melds nicely with the type of activities I plan for my students as a result of my work on my fellowship project.
As a classroom teacher in an elementary school, I love having a tablet to take with me as I visit students where their learning is happening. I take a lot of anecdotal notes about what I observe in my classroom, and it is nice to have a device that can accompany me as I make these observations. I have specifically enjoyed using the Evernote app on my tablet as a tool in the classroom.
With regard to the content of our Kenan Fellowship, the work of Kathy Richardson (on which our project if focused) hinges on hands-on, experiential math experiences. This work cannot be genuinely reflected on a worksheet. The ability to snap pictures of videos of student work using the tablet is invaluable. I have included a video of one of our math assessments used in our Kenan project. It is student interviews like these that give teachers extraordinary insight into students’ understandings of number concepts.