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This week, David wrote about a Canadian teacher, who had his seventh grade students create box labels to represent different events in Canada's history. They used mac computers to design their labels and the pictures on the website are amazing! He then went on to discuss that such technological 'artisan' work should be shared more than simply on a blog and he suggested the idea of having a company print the labels onto crayon boxes for the elementary students each year.
First of all, it was interesting to know that a middle school teacher successfully incorporated technology use into classroom and the amazing products show the range of capabilities that children exhibit when given the opportunity to apply their knowledge while learning something new. I think that this project exemplifies what we have been discussing as enhancing a child's learning experience of a topic, through the use of appropriate technology. My guess is that his students will always remember making the box labels depicting major events of Canada's history much better than their peers who may have simply read it in a book.