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-Find useful blogs to follow. After I've gained experience as a teacher myself, I hope to one day create my own teacher blog to share my ideas.

-Become more connected with teacher resources on social media, especially twitter.

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Assessing students through technology provides immediate, and often continuous feedback which aids teachers in creating appropriate lesson plans and future assignments for students.

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Technology allows teachers to adapt content to all students in their classroom. Read-aloud features can be useful for students with certain disabilities. Many websites offer texts that can be manipulated into different levels of difficulty.

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Without technology students can...
-listen to read-alouds
-gather a bin of books for independent study
-read articles
-view and analyze images
-have face-to-face or hand written discussions with classmates
-take field trips
-explore models or artifacts

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Technology allows students to...
-listen to audiobooks
-gather online resources
-have access to reading material online
-view and analyze high-quality images
-have class discussions via digital platforms
-skype, email, or tweet with experst
-take digital field trips

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Connecting different content areas is a highly effective way for children to learn. Technology can be used to reach many different content areas, and gives students a choice in how they learn.

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Conferring with Students About Technology: What Language to Use?

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Conferring with Students About Technology: What Language to Use?

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-Complementing: compliment students to encourage their work with technology.

-Questioning: discover more about a child's thinking and experience with technology by asking them questions about their work.

-Coaching: give students pointers and advice about technology to help them expand their ideas.

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When connecting technology to your students, allow them to explore new tools and make discoveries by giving them time to play every day. Offer your students a variety of different tools to play with to open their minds to different things such as moviemaking, coding, etc. Let students work together to use this play time to build community in the classroom

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Know your students and advocate for your their specific needs. Start with what tools you have available, and if that isn't enough reach out to those that can help you. 

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Know your students and advocate for your their specific needs. Start with what tools you have available, and if that isn't enough reach out to those that can help you. 

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It is crucial for teachers to find experts that are passionate about what they do, and share their knowledge for the world to see on topics that are important to use- like implementing technology in the classroom.

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Collaborate with other teachers and learn from each others' experiences!

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Collaborate with other teachers and learn from each others' experiences!

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#21stedchat
#engchat
#wonderchat
#edchat
#edtechchat
#ADEchat
#satchat

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Students use an iPad to create a Video Blog about a book they have read, then post it online for the class to see. The vlog includes important information about the book including the author, genre, length, a summary, etc.

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Play: Give students a few minutes to explore the new technology or tool.

Minilesson: Explicitly model the skills students will need to get started with the new technology or other tool.

Guided and Independent Practice: Allow students to engage in the activity using the new technology independently and/ or in small groups.

Debrief: Come back together as a class and discuss today's workshop.

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Attending conferences is another great way to discover new information about new ways to use technology in the classroom. Recently, teacher workshops called "unconference" have been trending. These meetings have no set agenda and give teachers the opportunity to engage in creative thinking and discovery.

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Social Media makes it easy for teachers around the world to connect and share activities, lesson plans, new technology, etc. with other teachers. Staying connected through social medias such as Twitter and Google+ can be great ways to discover new uses of technology.

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Many teachers across the country have created teacher blogs with lesson plans, activities, and other useful information available for other teachers to discover and possibly implement in their own classroom.

Where to find good teacher blogs:
-EdTeach Magazine: "The 2014 Honor Roll: EdTeach's Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs"
-Teach.com: "Teach 100"
-The Edublog Awards
-eSchool News: "Ten Follow-Worthy Educational Blogs"

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Webinars are 60- 90 minute online video conferences on a variety of topics that may be especially useful for teachers.

Useful Webinars:
-Heinmann
-The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
-The International Society for Technology in Education

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It is important for teachers to build a community of learning in their schools. Collectively, teachers have a wide range of experience and knowledge. Sharing that with each other promotes a strong culture of learning. Ways to do this are:

1. Hold a professional book study among teachers and other adults in the building.

2. As teachers, choose one thing to discover together. Share each other's knowledge and strengths, and push one another to discover new tools to use in the classroom.