technology as a tool for learning symposium 2015
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Steve Young @atemyshorts [email protected] http://ctotechnotes.blogspot.com/
Simple, free tools to power up teaching & learning
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Background BA, MA from Trinity University 21 Years in Education
Taught at Marshall HS in NISD Teacher & Technology Facilitator
Had several technology positions at NEISD Instructional Technology Coordinator Special Projects Coordinator Assistant Director, Network Support
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at JISD since 2006
Past chair of Texas CTO Council Winner of Grace Hopper Texas CTO of the year
for 2015
Too often technology only looks like this
And results in this…
You know what a good classroom looks like
www.crazylearner.org
School gets more interesting when tech is a embedded in the learning…and it opens up many possibilities
If your school, and your school day, is not about students collaborating, connecting, and building knowledge and understanding together, why would anyone come?
-- Scott McLeod Tech&Learning, March 2014
The true value of technology lies not in learning to use the technology, but in using the technology to learn.
http://multiplepathways.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/2-the-real-power-of-technology-in-schools/
A few practical tools and sites to help jump start technology in classrooms…
All are:
Free, Web-Based , & Device Agnostic
CAUTION! Danger of free/cloud tools!
CAUTION – Hot Topic!
Schools need to worry about protecting private student data Teachers should learn how the intended site/tool will treat student
data – look for their privacy policy See if the provider has signed on to the “Student Privacy Pledge” at
http://studentprivacypledge.org/?page_id=22 The school should retain the right to the data and control where and
with whom it’s shared You may need parental permission, especially for sites that have
unclear policies about their data and where it is shared Learn more at Common Sense Media:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/advocacy/school-privacy-zone
Schoology www.schoology.com Also consider Edmodo Simple, free, and easy to use, yet powerful Learning
Management System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqc1xE2H9Wg
Animoto https://animoto.com/education/classroom Simple and powerful presentation video
creator – free for staff and students This is a great way to tell a story through
video, without getting lost in a complex video editor
Just upload photos, arrange them, add some text, choose music and create!
Great ideas: http://animoto.com/blog/education/education-videos/
Create your first video: http://animoto.com/blog/news/creating-your-first-animoto-video/
Google Apps http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/ Never ending uses
32 Ways to Use Google Apps in Schools and Classrooms: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_6fh7wXkugHQbbA2IL
rjsFqysvclJCbul2I3Oc912D8/present?authkey=COej0pME#slide=id.i0
Content Curation & Lesson Creation Blendspace
Super free tool to aggregate content and build lessons. https://www.blendspace.com/ Some examples:
https://www.blendspace.com/gallery
Lesson Path A free, great way to bring together disparate web content for
learning or for flipping. http://www.lessonpaths.com/ Some examples:
http://www.lessonpaths.com/categories/browsePlaylists/academic
Both can be used for students to organize research, build projects, and much more using ANY internet content, including student/teacher created Google docs.
ExitTicket www.exitticket.org - http://vimeo.com/103525243 Like a deeper Socrative – great for assessments! Deep student response and intervention system
Warning: Add-ons cost $$ Would be especially useful in a 1 to 1 environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUt2mHEiVn8
Class Dojo www.classdojo.com Great, free classroom behavior management system
Can help engage students and parents Probably best suited for middle and elementary school Teacher explains her use:
http://thepinspiredteacher.blogspot.com/2013/03/techspired-tuesday-using-class-dojo-for.html
But….may make behavior too much of a focus
Communicate Class Messenger
Free teacher, parent, & student messaging service (phone #’s kept private)
Two way communication http://www.scholastic.com/classmessenger/
https://my.classmessenger.com/
Remind 101
Safe, easy, and free way to send info to student and parents Keeps numbers private Only one way communication
https://www.remind.com/
PenPal Schools PenPal Schools, which won the Dell Pitch Slam, enables
students from different parts of the world to write and learn together. The students learn new languages and cultures in a safe and secure online system, which includes pre-made assignments that make it easy for teachers to get their classes writing to peers across the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MWeH8ofHfY Donation ware – pay what you want
EduCanon
EduCanon helps teachers create videos to flip their classrooms. The product includes an embedded check for understanding, which students must complete before continuing on with the video, giving teachers a great formative assessment dashboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiS48yZT5SU#t=16 Google Slide presentation/training:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o-rA3VFQx4Gwi1v1PYeetL6CvatqGXRcuwOXcFELylY/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.g4f5df69db_1163
Great way to work on blended learning! Also available on Chrome store, Edmodo and Schoology
Go to b.socrative.com Enter room 60207 Socrative is great for discussions, brainstorming, assessment, etc. Similar to Poll Everywhere, GoSoapBox, etc.
Other Great Resource Lists Blooms Taxonomy Apps – The mother of all tool kits for
teaching https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar0FfDINz
1W_dGdwRTFUQlJYbGE0VWNXSUZCMWRjaVE&usp=sharing#gid=0
21st Century Teaching Resources – Incredibly deep list of resources, by category http://www.educatorstechnology.com/p/blog-page_7.html
45 Tools in 45 Minutes https://sites.google.com/a/esc6.net/45-tools-in-45-
minutes/
Questions
Steve Young @atemyshorts [email protected] http://ctotechnotes.blogspot.com/
http://goo.gl/FGmZfj