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My Classroom Digital Tools Encyclopedia-Bing Lu

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My Classroom Digital Tools Encyclopedia-Bing Lu

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To keep up with the rapid technological advancements and social changes in the 21st century, I strive to enhance my own media literacy and continuously innovate my teaching practices. The videos and visuals tools, such as Meme Generator, Powtoon, SafeShare help increase students’ creativity and boost their critical thinking. The PenPal Schools website supports virtual connection with global learners through collaboration and interaction.

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EDU 7150: Digital Tools To Improve Accessibility and Inclusion in Education

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My intention for my final project is to focus on increasing inclusion in postsecondary education. The resources I found support student engagement in their studies; from increasing motivation through goal-setting to supporting accessibility in course material.

I had never thought of GIFs as educational tools, however in exploring Gonzalez (2021), I discovered how they can be informative through illustrating short instructions amongst other things. As someone with a neurodevelopmental disability, I appreciate the value a GIF can bring to something such as visual instructions.

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Digital Tools for Schools with Low Budgets – Adriana XA

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Digital Tools for Schools with Low Budgets – Adriana XA

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Hello everyone. In my experience, licencing costs make some tech tools inaccessible to some schools and educators. This collection concentrates on open-source projects, and adds other software with generous free licences. For me, open-source projects are inspiring examples of community-driven collaboration. Participants have the right to use the resources, and the responsibility to contribute to further developments.

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Digital Tools for Schools with Low Budgets

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Educational technologies are at our fingertips, yet some tools remain inaccessible for some schools due to high licencing costs. If your school is working with a tight budget, here is a guide of open-source projects and applications that offer multiple resources for free. There is a caveat, however.…

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I have curated some digital tools that I use in my classroom every single week. They are important parts of how I ask the students in my room to learn. When I consider a global project I know that all of these tools will work together to make sure that my students are understood, connected to one another, researched, able to present their information, able to consider the ideas and needs of others, and engaged with their learning.

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I'm interested in addressing Spanish language learners' social and emotional needs in the language classroom. Therefore, my final project will focus on creating a website that facilitates the acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language while improving students’ social-emotional competencies (self-awareness, stress management, social skills, and responsible decision-making). The digital tools I chose will provide students with opportunities for creativeness, active participation, self-reflection, collaboration, and critical thinking. Further, the digital tools will allow students to learn vocabulary in Spanish and practice their Spanish speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

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Class Partnership Project- Nicole Fairweather

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Class Partnership Project- Nicole Fairweather

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I have created a curated list of resources that would help a teacher conduct an engaging partnership with another class! When I was teaching in the north, I used some of these tools to connect with a Grade 2 class from Ontario. My students enjoyed learning alongside students from another part of Canada and getting to know them from a distance using sites such as KidBlog. It was a fun way for students to share various aspects of their culture and identity with others while fostering acceptance, understanding, confidence and pride!

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Online resources to connect with classes across the country or the globe!

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My curated collection of resources reflect three of my interest areas. I have found most of these resource from Gonzalez's (2021) and Read the World: Distance and Digital Learning by Ziemke & Muhtaris.

First, I have included resources that increase my ability to provide students with meaningful descriptive feedback.  Second, as an FSL teacher, I looked for digital resources that can support my learners in developing fluency and phonology. Thirdly, I have included resources that engage students in peer-reflection, and help them develop study-skills. My overall goal as an educator is to provide students the opportunity to reflect on their own learning to facilitate inquiry.

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English/Visual Arts Education tools

This past year was a huge challenge for me transitioning to an online environment for teaching. As primarily a Visual Arts teacher, I struggled finding ways to engage students without access to physical art materials within a classroom. After looking through the resources, I really liked the "anti-racist art resources" guide as I found this was a great resources for cross-curricular learning. I pinned tools that I have used before but I also pinned new ones related to social justice education as this is something I want to embed in all the courses I teach regardless of subject matter. Next year I will be teaching primarily English and chose resources specifically for Media Literacy and social justice as my school has a large focus on this (especially as an International School in Asia).

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Hi everyone,

I do not have any teaching experience but I hope to focus my final project on global health care accessibility. I went through the different resources to curate a list of tools that I believe would be relevant to researching, interacting and presenting global health care in a creative manner for students. Among the list are familiar tools as well as less common tools meant to expand the minds of students to consult with the real world.

Link: https://wke.lt/w/s/FTIiVs

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Hi everyone!

I am not a classroom teacher. However, a lot of my work focuses on workshop design, facilitation, and community building. Often learners and community members may be hesitant to raise their hand or 'unmute' and speak out. The tools in the Wakelet I have created focus on providing a greater range of ways for learners and participants to communicate with each other in virtual settings.

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Designed to help increase engagement in virtual workshops, communities, and classrooms.

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I have chosen to possibly focus on anti-racist resources/technologies that can be used in an elementary classroom as a final project idea. The 8 resources I have listed in my Wakelet come from Gonzalez's (2002) text p. 207 - 211. This is a global issue in which 21st century teaching needs to take a more effective and meaningful approach to implementing in students day-to-day activities.

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Anti-Racist Digital Resources for Education

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As Faculty of a Post Secondary program, I am consistently trying to align my curriculum design and delivery with useful and relevant tools the students may use in their future practice. This week I explored many tech devices I have experience using, some I am interested to explore further and others I did not know existed. Overall, I chose technology options that I feel support the boasted need for relationship building in virtual settings, student collaboration or connectivism, and transferability or user friendliness. My rationale is supported by both professional experience and the context explored through our course thus far.

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As an academic librarian, I focused my selection of tools to reflect the various components of critical information literacy teaching and learning from a global perspective.

The selection is a combination of tools I currently use, are similar to others I am familiar with/use, as well as new tools to integrate. These tools can help to foster meaning-making via critical engagement, whether consumed or created, of various forms of information.

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EDU 7150 - Digital Tools for Fostering Critical Information Literacy and Engaged Global Citizenship

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A selection of tools to support teaching and learning

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I have selected some tools that I use in my classrooms right now and some new tools that have intrigued me through my search of the "Teachers Guide to Tech 2021".
My interest lies in adult ESL education and empowering students to share their stories and experiences. Because my current job has me work predominantly with adult ESL learners with low technological skills, I tried to keep the educational tools simple and easy to use.
I am very interested in the digital literacy of adult English Language Learners in this global world. I would like to find a way to focus my final project around this idea.

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I will use these tools in education to give opportunities to the students to learn to listen, and respect other students’ opinions and viewpoints. Video making and social media activities will be used to educate students on race and allow for discussion forums, all to promote safe, community building norms.

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I am consumed with promoting relationship building and trust among my EAL teachers and their students. To me, this is the cornerstone of education. Without strong relationships there is little hope to truly break though and TEACH your students. Aim to be the teacher that students come back and visit year after year. In EAL, a major component of this is recognizing and validating the culture and language of each and every student. I hope I provided some usable ways to do so.

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Supporting Multiculturalism in the Classroom

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Tools, websites, and resources to create a successful, welcoming environment for ALL students

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I have chosen to explore some tools that I feel could be useful in teaching Information Literacy (IL). As an academic librarian, I facilitate workshops for students that focus on developing IL skills, and currently use a few of these tools in my workshops and courses. I am always interested in how librarians can include and expand upon global education in IL practices.

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EDU 7150: Digital Tools in Global Education

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A collection of useful tools for teaching Information Literacy.

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Much like my global education definition, I have chosen to curate my digital tools with a healthcare education focus. Gonzales has an impressive compendium of digital tools categorized by their application. I have similarly grouped my digital apps according to learner engagement, research, presentation and healthcare education resources. Although my focus is healthcare education, has anyone in the group used these tools for other education endeavors?

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Useful online tools for Holocaust Education

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I curated my wake through the lens of Holocaust Education. How can these tools be used to support inquiry into the Holocaust? Xenophobia, intolerance and understanding historic acts of genocide are global issues. The problem is that there is so much information (and misinformation) out there to interact with.

This is exemplified in the Gonzalez text as there are pages and pages of resources, one can almost become paralyzed with opportunity and options.  I think having 8-10 useful tools that you can consistently rely on for this type of education would be useful in any classroom.

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For my final project, I want to focus on ways that technology can connect students to global perspectives and ways that technology can amplify their own voices through a variety of different mediums. With this goal in mind, I first focused on apps and sites that allow students to access perspectives from people around the world through visual texts, audio texts, and written texts. I also choose resources that give the students the tools to create their own media to share their own voices and perspectives with a larger audience.

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Resources to help students access different global perspectives and tools to help them amplify their own perspective.

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I hope to focus on good health and well-being related topics with those technology tools to promote open education with engaging and convenient learning opportunities. Implement interactive learning activities that offer reflective learning and real-time verification of their knowledge. Plus, it allows educators to monitor their learning process.

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My collection includes tools to help students develop global perspectives, find diverse books, create digital content, and engage with their teachers and peers online.

Working in public libraries, I have developed an interest in children’s literacy. Resources like diversebooks.org are important for supporting childhood literacy while also ensuring that children have access to literature that represents diverse groups of people. There are also a myriad of tools such as Empatico that can help develop global perspectives further by connecting students with their peers all over the globe.

The digital tools available to us can be used to help students recognize the beauty of diversity and show them how to express their literacies with more than one mode.

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The tools I picked are based on my interests in teaching and the age group I target. I chose some tools that are related to environment awareness, interaction between students globally, as well as a variety of interactive, fun lesson makers to engage students. Moreover, I'm taken by the tools that foster students' creativity and kindness. And finally, I chose Adobe Creative Cloud express to help me with my final project.

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A collection of the most useful tools for my classroom