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How to Get Hesitant Teachers to Use Educational Technology

How to Get Hesitant Teachers to Use Educational Technology

by Jennifer Carey | Aug 7, 2019 | Making The Shift, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning

In my role as tech advocate, I habitually find myself trying to coax established educators to use new tools and incorporate new methodologies. Here are some ways I have found to be successful in this endeavor.

How Do Digital Portfolios Help Students Learn?

by Matt Renwick | Aug 1, 2014 | Connected Leadership, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning

Principal Matt Renwick explains how his K-5 school is using Digital Student Portfolios to boost student achievement and promote connected learning. Renwick includes samples from actual student portfolios.

Why I Would Never Go Back to Offline Teaching

by Smadar Goldstein | Jun 19, 2014 | Making The Shift, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning

“Now that I’ve set up my classroom collaboratively, I cannot imagine returning to a non-collaborative environment,” says online educator Smadar Goldstein. “And whether you’re teaching from thousands of miles away or sharing a physical space with your students, an online component can provide unique shared learning opportunities.”

Cheating vs Collaborating in Online Learning Environments

by Smadar Goldstein | May 30, 2014 | Making The Shift, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning

Are students cheating when they read the work of fellow students in a collaborative environment and then incorporate the ideas into their own responses? Online teacher Smadar Goldstein prefers to define that as “learning.” But if you have concerns, she has suggestions.

Adding Technology to an Early Reading Support Classroom

by Arwen Kuttner | May 11, 2014 | Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning

Reading support teacher Arwen Kuttner is finding that a combination of tried and true reading instructional strategies and some new technologies have achieved a productive balance among her primary-aged students who are now “eager to ask me for books that they can read independently.”

How to Infuse Digital Literacy Throughout the Curriculum

by Jennifer Carey | Mar 26, 2014 | Making The Shift, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning

K12 schools are slow to address digital literacy, says technology coach and teacher Jen Carey, when they view it as more content to cover – not a cross-curricular component of teaching. In this post she suggests a better way, with several examples from her history classroom .

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