<div dir="ltr">I also like to incorporate a picture book, What If or What Do You Do With an Idea come to mind. I also feel like our littles have no problem with the red squiggly line but my big kids get all a-flutter about it 🤣 Maybe incorporating a lesson on making mistakes may help? Or simply learning how to turn autocorrect/spell check off? We did this a couple times when we had testing, and truly wanted to see what the kids could do and not what their devices could do. <div><br></div><div>Tasha - love the shared story idea! Also, Go Senators! I went to O'Neill a million moons ago =)<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><table style="direction:ltr;border-radius:0">
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And have them all start with the same sentence and then they each get to add one more sentence. And even then pass the papers to the next table - this was pre Covid, so you couldn't have them share papers right now.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sometimes just giving them a challenge makes all the difference. I remember once I said I wanted to see who could write the most in 10 minutes - me or the students. They took up the challenge! Maybe pick something they all have to describe and write about and then have it morph into something else, like a transformer. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I think so many of our students just don't "wonder" about things. I'll ask kids "what do you like to do" and the answer is nothing. Hard to work with that, so I think some direction in the beginning is helpful, but then you have to have a way to turn them loose, so they can be creative.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Good luck! If you hit on something that works, please share! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Tasha</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 9:45 AM Mrs. Hamernick via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Hi all,<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Anyone else feel like autocorrect is decreasing our student's ability to write? Not only write, but write creatively!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I would love to hear your thoughts, as I am trying to create a lesson for my 8th graders. I am not sure which angle I need to take for this, but it's got to be very convincing for them, as it will essentially be telling them to think on their own instead of allowing the device to think for them. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Also, if you have any resources or lessons you have already done that could help this crusade of mine, I'd really appreciate access to them.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font color="800080"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica">Sincerely, <br>Amy Hamernick<br>Media Specialist</font></font></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium">Apple Teacher</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma">Century Jr. High</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000ff">@AhamernickCJH</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000ff">#CenturyWildcats</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica"><font color="800080" style="color:rgb(128,0,128)"><br></font></font></font><div align="center"><font color="800080" size="3"><font face="Helvetica"></font><span lang="en-US">"If we always do what we've always done,<br>we will get what we've always got.</span></font><font color="800080" size="3">"<br><span lang="en-US">~Adam Urbanski~<br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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