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=Scenario 2=

Scenario 2CM. A social studies teacher is doing some collaborative, project-based learning in his first period class that requires use of the laptops by students. At the start of class, several students do not have their laptops charged (the district/school AUP requires students to bring charged laptops to school). The students ask the teacher if they may use their power cords. The teacher says that they can for the project. Within minutes, the two students that are wired to an outlet are sitting at a pod together (two slanted desks pushed together) working quietly when another student trips over a power cord and falls to the ground- hurting her arm. The teacher realizes that the injury is severe, and that he must call for an ambulance as the arm appears to be fractured.

From the point of view of your identity (card), consider the following points regarding classroom management in this situation: infrastructure, desk/table arrangement, positioning and movement of the facilitator, development and buy-in regarding classroom norms, detailed planning, controlled/creative chaos, leveraging students as technology teacher assistants, etc.