Project Idea🧠
For my free inquiry project, I chose to focus on the app Notion. My goals are to master the app and discover how it can be integrated into a teachers life as a tool for in and outside the classroom.
What is Notion?📱💻
Notion is an app that is designed to help with organization and productivity. I believe it could be useful for teachers because our days can be very chaotic, but being organized and structured can help. The app is completely free for individual use and available on Apple and android.
There are similar apps, such as Trello that we have used in the classroom. Through my research I’ve discovered that notion is incomparable because of the features Notion has to offer.
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My Goals Throughout this Inquiry 🥅⚽️
My goals throughout this inquiry is to discover ways teachers can integrate Notion into their classroom. Yes, I know that notion is used to stay organized, but how can a teacher use this organization to help manage the classroom? How can the app assist with future planning? How can this ease a teachers anxiety that then ultimately helps students? Is Notion user-friendly enough where will not cause more stress on teachers to discover a new app? Can this type of technology be integrated into the classroom for students use? These are all questions I plan on answering throughout my research?
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My Plan🗓️✏️
My plan is to develop a Notion page imitating how a teacher would use it. I will also be using research through pages such as TikTok for real life, examples and the web for step-by-step examples. My plan is to track all the hours, I spend on research and design this way at the end of the inquiry I’ll be able to tell if this is worth a teachers time learning to master or if other apps, such as Trello would be more useful. For example, if learning how to use Notion takes 10 hours a week to master in a few weeks I will be able to say it is not worth teachers time, but if it only takes a few hours to build a page that would be useful. Then I plan on integrating it into my career as a teacher.
Hopefully by the end of this project, I will be able to say that Notion is a simple, quick and easy tool to help teachers. The last few weeks of school, we have learned that it disorganized classroom does not support students with integrating technology into the daily lives of teachers that classroom become an organized and safe space for students to learn develop and grow.