#edtech for parents
Quick how-to guide for parents and technology
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Category: Technology
Tech Tools
I have a YouTube channel, and I use it to post teaching and other silly videos. I’ve been trying to figure out how to verify my Youtube site with this blog, but the it’s out of my range of skills. I even asked my husband to come look at it, he just tells me to… Read More Tech Tools
Let’s talk: “Digital Native”
The term, “digital native” has always bothered me. It was coined by a man named Marc Prensky, and its original intent: Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate “new culture” while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world. https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/04/business/digital-native-prensky/index.html Okay… Read More Let’s talk: “Digital Native”
blender
Why we need to take another look at blended learning… Read More blender
Favorite Digital Tools
Some of my favorite digital tools, and some I’d like to try.… Read More Favorite Digital Tools
Make Stuff, Not Subscribers
Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take Please read this post that provides an excellent example of then and now–before smartphones and their dopamine enhancers embedded into our psyches. I’ve been the classroom teacher who has witnessed this first hand. The students who find out that I have a Youtube channel and never,… Read More Make Stuff, Not Subscribers
Student Writing: Blogs
This post is a bit specific, written for a colleague: if none of this helps you, swipe on by. The question is how to start student blogging and grading with an LMS like Canvas. There are a few paths to take, and of course, if your district allows Google products, things like Blogger, etc. are… Read More Student Writing: Blogs
Summer Series of Saves: It’s not just you.
Is anyone else finding that social media/cell phones have completely altered their capacity to read books and concentrate on multi-page sequences? It’s become a major problem… — Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 10, 2018 I am concerned about my #ProjectLIT project stalling out. I need these books. Don’t want: need. They aren’t some glib luxury for… Read More Summer Series of Saves: It’s not just you.
Versus.
George Couros has me thinking (again): “What is the difference between school and learning?” His article, One Question We Should Always Ask… made me think deeply about how the relationship between the classroom teacher, the students, and technology. The battle between getting a student’s attention when all they want to do is gaze at the Mirror… Read More Versus.
Metacognitechnician
Forgive my portmanteau: I am operating on little sleep right now. A parent on my district’s unofficial Facebook group posed an interesting question of how technology is used, (or used poorly) in the classroom as the case may be. All I can speak to is my own experience, motivation, gumption, grit, and determination to continue and… Read More Metacognitechnician
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