#edtech for parents
Quick how-to guide for parents and technology
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Tag: 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
blender
Why we need to take another look at blended learning… Read More blender
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
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
Spent.
//giphy.com/embed/k8AR3ns2qfwl2 via GIPHY Yesterday’s post concerned time: today’s post is all about…you guessed it…money. And boy oh boy is this a touchy subject. Let’s let go of the trope that teachers get summers’ off and don’t make enough and-and-and…I’m just looking at the nickel-and-dime new microtransaction model of economics. “What’s a ‘microtransaction‘?”, You innocently ask.… Read More Spent.
Myth of the Month Club: Krampus
Krampus is the dark companion of St. Nicholas, the traditional European winter gift-bringer who rewards good children each year on December 6. The kindly old Saint leaves the task of punishing bad children to a hell-bound counterpart known by many names across the continent — Knecht Ruprecht, Certa, Perchten, Black Peter, Schmutzli, Pelznickel, Klaubauf, and Krampus.… Read More Myth of the Month Club: Krampus
Chasing the Golden Techie: Part II
Okay – thank you for indulging my history lesson on one school’s adventure with 1:1. I saw this passing ’round the Interwebs not too long after posting, and realize, just like a thousand other Dorothy with ruby red shoes, I had the power all along. And I’ve been doing this all along. Units I have… Read More Chasing the Golden Techie: Part II
Tricks of the trade.
Does technology help young writers, and teachers of writing? http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/technologyforwriting/ I am sure it’s helped me in teaching writing. Showing so many examples of writing, sharing my own writing, and using it to model/demonstrate workshop behaviors and protocol has been effective in allowing my students to find their own voices. But with everything,… Read More Tricks of the trade.
Mrs. Kelly Love 
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