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Nearpod is a great way to teach asynchronously. You can record or upload videos and images, insert questions and polls, and view your student's responses!
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Nearpod: Foster a love of learning in every student

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Create active learning experiences students can’t wait to be a part of.

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This site discusses all of the issues with EdTech that educators face!
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This channel offers a bunch of tips, tricks, and tutorials for both educators and students on how to use the internet, Google tools, and other forms of EdTech!
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Simple, clear videos for teachers and students about how to use technology in the classroom.

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This group is for educators who want to stay in the loop about EdTech and collaborate with other educators to discover new apps, lessons, and ideas all centered around this technology!

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This is a collaborative group 🌎🌍🌏 for teachers, entrepreneurs, innovation & tech coaches, managers and L&D Leaders that want to keep up to date and share trends, best practices, tools, events, and...

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Apologies for the image content... Not something I specifically agree with, but it is the first thing under #eductionaltechnology so it shows up! Tik Tok is full of great creators and videos about Ed Tech. Many people share tech tools that work for them, tips and tricks for applications, and even job postings and conference links all centered around Ed Tech!

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educational technology | 1.9M views. Watch the latest videos about #educationaltechnology on TikTok.

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This Podcast consists of educators discussing issues relating to EdTech and modernizing the classroom. This is a definite listen for anyone who wants to stay up to date in educational technology, its implications, and how to apply it!

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The iTunes new and nominated, The Edtech Podcast is downloaded 1500+ each week from 109 countries in total. The mission statement of The Edtech Podcast is to improve the dialogue between 'ed' and 'tech' through storytelling, for better innovation. The main audience are global education leaders, with a secondary audience of start ups, bluechips, investors, Government and media.

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This YouTube channel focuses on how teachers can make their teaching and classroom align with EdTech and 21st Century Teaching standards.

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Empowering teachers to reach the next generation. With a combined 20+ years of classroom teaching experience and a combined 10+ years creating YouTube content for teachers, expert lesson designers Sam Kary and Thom Gibson create videos to help you learn what it takes to create engaging learning experiences for your students.

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This site compiled all the EdTech conferences being held by leading companies in 2023.

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Major edtech conferences organized by leading education and industry groups for 2023

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This conference will have over 900 sessions to help educators learn the ISTE standards, how to implement them, and how to revolutionize their learning.

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ISTELive 23 - Edtech conference | June 25-28 | Philadelphia

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Where what’s next in education becomes what’s now! Be there to discover your next adventure, collaboration, project, favorite tech tool, friend.

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EdTech and SEL go hand and hand! This article shares how by using EdTech in the classroom, teachers can actually enhance the SEL benefits inside the classroom!

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* In social-emotional learning, tech tools help kids explore more than the 'here and now.'
* There are many different ways EdTech solutions can enhance your SEL experiences.
* Technology can sometimes help to close developmental and social gaps in kids.
* Combining SEL and technology often helps your students create connections.
* Integrating tech tools intentionally can ignite development of key SEL skills.

There are many benefits of social-emotional learning, including helping students learn to work as part of teams, helping them manage their own emotions in the classroom, and helping them to build up stronger connections to their school work among others. So many unique social-emotional learning strategies have popped up around the world. For starters, they help educators to legitimize this teaching approach across grade levels. With SEL practices come the opportunities for students to learn some of the most important social-emotional skills, like self-awareness, goal setting, social awareness, and more. And, when adding in educational technologies, they can unlock new sets of benefits and expand the power of SEL.

SEL and Technology: Creating Greater Connections

Perhaps the most basic goal of social-emotional learning, creating relevant connections for children, often takes center stage in classrooms. When it first gained popularity, social-emotional learning was essentially its own entity-a branch off your instructional tree. It's now, however, found itself connected to some other instructional practices, including perhaps most notably, using technology. SEL and SEL practices help with empowering children to have their own voice and to expand their minds. Technology tools can help expand that voice, so it's natural that the two have formed an effective pair in day-to-day learning. For starters, any educators can weave SEL concepts, like social awareness and authenticity, into their instruction but that is just the beginning. Bringing EdTech into the mix can take social-emotional learning to a new level.

Expressing emotions in a social setting.

Social-emotional learning and soft skills.

The soft skills students develop through SEL experiences, including those we've already mentioned, have become crucial in recent years. Previously, educators had been putting a lot of focus into teaching the hard skills, like coding. Though it's easier to measure hard skills development, it's equally important for students to develop soft skills. We've found that hard and soft skills are actually closely connected and beneficial for students to establish. One of the most sought-after skills at the moment, for example, is well-being-a skill that's closely related to SEL. Knowing how to manage workloads and ask peers for help when they need it is something kids can grasp from social-emotional learning. It's one example of how clear communication, which is another component of SEL, can help prepare them for the future.

How Tech Might Enhance Social-Emotional Learning

Though not commonly associated with social-emotional learning and social and emotional skills, students can certainly learn other relevant skills through SEL experiences. These include the skills like persistence, , problem solving, and redesigning experiments to overcome previous failed attempts. Particularly when educational technology comes into play, the ability to persist through failures can take a lot of different routes. Besides this, technology can align with SEL in a few different ways. Students might start to connect more deeply with this academic content and develop more meaningful intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. Not only could EdTech integration help to make SEL more meaningful, there's also potential for it to help students learn key 21st century skills in the process.

Benefits of SEL and technology.

One of the greatest benefits of using EdTech in social-emotional learning is enabling students to direct their own learning experiences. When they're learning things they actually want to learn and care about, children tend to exhibit better engagement levels and, ultimately, achieve greater results. Leveraging helps kids work to their strengths and enjoy a greater personalized experience in the classroom. Plus, technology tools also help with assessment in social-emotional learning. Teachers can use various tools to better understand how students are doing with SEL skill development and their overall mindsets. They can try formative assessments or capture other forms of data to show children how they can improve. This is especially useful if they exhibit negative behavior at times (but teachers can also track positive behavior).

Using technology to monitor student progress.

In SEL, technology enables greater levels of personalized learning for students. They can essentially stay in their comfort zone when using EdTech tools. This ensures that they're not too bored with material they're learning nor moving too fast. With higher comfort levels often comes improved performance. Additionally, if educators have a tracking platform available, the increased access to student performance data could go a long way. It can even show how kids are sticking to what they need to learn or identify any changes in their emotional states. Finally, technology in SEL helps students build agency. By assuming greater amounts of leadership in their own learning, kids are often able to explore new problem-solving methods and use this chance to make their own decisions.

Social-emotional learning helps teachers create more cohesive learning experiences for students in a lot of situations. The addition of technology can also help close some gaps students experience with social and emotional skill development. Though educational and maker technologies aren't designed to replace kids' human interactions, they can, however, help to make those interactions more meaningful and help enhance learning experiences for students. This allows them to express themselves on deeper levels and bolster the connections they have with their projects. Specifically, it's the supplemental benefits of tech tools that help improve on social and emotional development. When integrated with SEL content, various EdTech tools can help students to express their ideas and emotions more effectively, which can provide educators with new ideas for balancing the two and creating high-quality learning.

Social-emotional learning, soft skills, and STEM.

Many of the that kids typically use in learning have features that are naturally compatible with SEL development. When programming robots, for example, SEL-related experiences include responsible decision making, communication, collaboration, and even frustration. Collaborating with peers is also very effective when students are working together on a program-something we already know-and their skills in communication often become clearer when student groups or pairs have a common goal. Then, there's the tangible side of SEL, which is definitely visible when students are learning with hands-on tools. In this particular example, when they see their program run, they'll gain greater self-confidence. They'll also stay engaged for longer periods of time and, ultimately, this should lead to greater retention.

Surprising SEL tools for the classroom.

Social-Emotional Learning: More than 'Here and Now'

It's probably easy to tell that we believe educational technology and MakerEd tools can collectively bolster social-emotional learning. Students can still learn a lot, however, even if they're not actually using any tech tools in their SEL experiences. Let us explain. Social-emotional learning doesn't always have to be hands-on-even when technologies are involved. If children are using other technology tools in another class, for example, educators don't necessarily need a deep instructional plan. This is an opportunity for a reflective discussion on the role technology plays in students' day-to-day lives. It could also help them express their emotions, frustrations, and excitement while connecting with classmates who share similar viewpoints.

Using technology to foster relationships.

Enhancing social-emotional learning with classroom tech tools.

Aside from the physical benefits of EdTech tools and platforms, they also offer social-emotional benefits to students. Take robotics, for example. Students can learn computer science skills or coding concepts when programming a robot but teachers can also tap their social-emotional sides. They could challenge students to think about how a robot might interact with other robots or with people. This might help kids understand that it's okay to feel nervous in new situations but that collaborating and communicating can help that fear go away. Finally, if technologies are not available during SEL lessons, teachers could still incorporate them by leading discussions on relevant topics. Some of them include sharing views on violence in video games, the usefulness of AI platforms like Siri, or the ethics behind self-driving cars. All of these can tie into social-emotional learning in one way or another.

How EdTech Use Helps Kids Strengthen SEL Skills

Not only do EdTech tools have a strong presence in education but the technology has become increasingly immersive and powerful. So, while the state of the workforce demands students gain experience with high-tech tools, school leaders and parents also want to ensure they are developing these social and emotional skills-since those are also important. Technologies that enable students to learn both hard and soft skills are ideal and STEM and maker tools can help them do so. Simply providing students with tech tools and telling them to collaborate with their peers is not going to do the trick. Kids require basic guidance when it comes to using new technology, specifically in conjunction with social-emotional instruction. Plus, there's many different ways educators can bring these connections to life through authentic learning experiences.

The social-emotional learning foundation in different subjects.

Using robotics kits for education and SEL.

Finally, educational robotics kits show positive results among technologies that can boost social-emotional development in kids. Particularly when children have social or language disorders, they could use various educational robotics tools to communicate by programming the robot to say certain messages or execute certain actions that indicate how they are feeling. Many robots for the classroom are quite perfect for this purpose but the takes things to another level. This highly advanced humanoid is very effective with special populations, particularly students who have Autism. It offers a calming presence and can truly help them feel comfortable with communicating. Plus, it's just one of the many emerging technologies that can help today's students.

Finally, students can use digital platforms, like or , to share their thoughts and new things they have learned on important topics. By voicing real emotions, they can better connect with this content, their peers, and themselves-the main goals of SEL. Follow us on and for more.

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EdTech And Social-Emotional Learning - Eduporium

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In social-emotional learning, it's all about engaging kids beyond their minds. Tech tools help teachers activate their hearts and hands, too.

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This tool provides professional development, training, and curriculums all based around using EdTech to teach SEL skills.

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A Comprehensive Mindsets-Based Solution Trusted by Educators for Over 15 Years Our mindsets-based learning, teacher-first approach is designed to drive

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Jamboard allows users to create pages and insert images, graphics, textboxes, and more! Encouraging collaboration, organization, and brain storming!

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A student favorite for Ed Tech and gamification, Kahoot makes reviewing materials an exciting challenge!

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Kahoot!'s new student passes are a one-way ticket to take students from players to creators! Empower your students to engage in active learning with the tools they need to create and host kahoots that demonstrate their learning to the whole class.

With student passes your class will have access to:

The full functionality of the Kahoot! creator to make fun and engaging kahoots for their peers

Award-winning learning apps from Poio and DragonBox to master everything from the basics of reading and numeracy to algebra, geometry, and even chess

Premium Kahoot! features including exclusive question types like brainstorm, type answer, and puzzles, plus creation tools to create advanced slide layouts with our premium image library

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Make your students the hosts of their own learning experiences

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A student-centered learning platform and content hub designed to help students to take an active role in their education through powerful play