Today was the first day of a week-long class at UNL in learning how to best use technology in the classroom. My goal in taking this class is to help other teachers learn how to integrate technology into their classes. With that in mind, my final project will be a collection of resources for teachers that also includes examples of how to use the resources as well as the pedagogy behind them.
Gems from today:
- Gen V - we have no idea what student will need to know 20 years from now!
- Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text
- Adding visuals aids increase learning by up to 400%
- There are thousands of apps. Find just 10 that you are comfortable using, and use them! Let your students explore the apps as well!
- Give students tools to work with and let them go!
- The key is to give the technology to students to use. The purpose is not solely for the teacher to use.
- Teachers need to be comfortable to try things and willing to let students help them!
- Let students research, ask questions, and talk about how to find sources and evaluate sources.
- What's the benefit of Haiku Deck, etc. over Google Slides, etc.? Just another way to give students choice and to be creative.
- May need to look more into: http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/
- Why do we talk about maker spaces in a technology class? Look up definition of technology.
- Having a problem you need solved? Google it for an app! Fluency in classroom, definition of words on screen...
Apps used today:
- Padlet - Show comments from students including videos and links **KEEPER**
- Use it for the beginning of class for questions
- Make a list of comments about books
- Place to share ideas
- Place to show background knowledge "What do you know about dinasours?"
- Haiku Deck
- Have to sign in - what some teachers do is set up student dummy accounts
- Great place to easily create a presentation
- Shadow Puppet Edu
- Another good place to create videos
- Emaze - another presentation device
- One of Laurie's favorite blogs: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
- Flipboard.com news pages: edtech, technology, news, pedagogy, higher education, professional development
- Grammarly - app that checks spelling and grammar no matter where you're at! **KEEPER**
- Dragon Dictation - app that allows students to dictate
- Popplets - Graphic Organizers
- Educreation -
- Fluency tutor for Google.
Apps to Explore:
- Dragon Dictation
- Audio Note
- Google Earth
- Haiku Deck
- Snapguide
- FlipOGram
- Your World
- Science 360
- Smithsonian
- Google Slides
- Pic Collage
- GRID
- Touch Cast
- Replay
- Bug Brained 8 Great Word Patterns
- Fluency 2
- News-o-Matic
- Khan Academy
- Todo Math
- Google Slides
- Prezi
- Ziteboard
- eMaze
- Loupe Collage
- Grammarly
You set an important goal of helping teachers integrate technology. You are building a website as we go! You will be prepared when you teach this course and will have so much to share! Let me know how I can assist.
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