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This week I had the opportunity to observe an edtech coach teaching digital citizenship lessons for classrooms full of students. While the topic of the learning revolved around the use of technology, not one student utilized a digital device during the lesson. In an age in which students are surrounded by screens throughout the day […]
For years I have been asked by educators and administrators what technology skills students should master according to their grade level. Initially, I hesitated to provide explicit answers to this question, as I believe that educational technology itself is philosophically a means for engaging with academic content, it is not an end in and of […]
As an Xennial and edtech specialist, I am comfortable utilizing digital media in my personal and professional life and I seek to utilize varied media to stay abreast of how current events may be affecting our current learners. However, I also realize that my experience and attempts to stay current is not enough to provide […]
The neuroscience of UDL and Daniel Pink’s research on intrinsic motivation both reveal the positive effects of ensuring that students have autonomy and ownership in the learning process. But what does this look like in the classroom? After all, we are called upon to engage learners in academic content, aligned to standards that oftentimes lead […]
This week I led upper elementary aged students in a daily writing prompt activity. I facilitate this protocol often in classrooms grades 1 – 12 and have set specific supports in place to provide access for struggling learners. The prompt is open ended and therefore naturally differentiated for varied levels of writing. Reading is not […]
In spring of 2020 when many of the educators I work with shifted to distance learning, countless hours were spent preparing digital lessons for students. Educators created screencasts, built activities in learning management systems, and converted paper/pencil tasks to digital methods for students to access at home. Technology, in distance learning, was not merely an […]
Health guidelines in alignment with the COVID19 pandemic have resulted in transient attendance from both educators and students. Last week I was in a classroom in which 17 students were not present in class. In another school I serve, nearly 40% of the student body was absent. Educators are covering quarantined colleagues’ classrooms during their […]
It is vital that we develop empathy for our students. As a classroom teacher, I often thought back to my days as a child in a classroom – trying to imagine how actions I took as a teacher would have affected me. But in the midst of a global pandemic, I cannot personally relate to […]
It can be difficult to motivate students to engage with academic content that they may not be inherently interested in. But we know that the more excitement and motivation we have from students, the more memorable the learning experience, the longer the learning will be sustained. Learning lasts longer in our memory when we felt […]
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