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We could always offer something for the parents during the open building day...it seems that many parents come to school anyway with their child and then the parent stands while the child walks around. Just a thought

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What if we offered some type of technology help during Open Houses? Just a thought.

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Through projects and webquests we discuss how to tell if a site is acceptable. I will review with students how to check skyward and Canvas. Thanks to those of you who reminded me, that they may not know how to do this!

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I think we should offer technology sessions throughout the school year to help parents feel more comfortable using our technology. Many times I hear parents tell me that they do not know how to access canvas or skyward. Often, I hear this from parents who are new to the district later in the school year. I think if there were an information session that they could attend and practice with the technology, they would be more likely to use it,

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I introduce or review some of the technology tools that we use (canvas, skyward, e-mail) very early in the school year. I also insist that students check their accounts at least once a week. This way they get used to using the technology and see different ways that it can help keep them organized during the school year.

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I think that parents and students should learn more specifically about Google features that we use often. Using cloud storage in Drive to edit papers at school and home can ensure work is not forgotten at school or at home.

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For my students it is important that they use it consistently as a resource. Once they are familiar with it, the access to Canvas and Skyward can be beneficial to them.

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I think it can be used as a way to broaden people's understanding of different topics dealing with education. Even those opinions different than yours can be educational.

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I think parents need to know what to do when the computer fails to work. I am amazed at the number of kids who say the computer is down, it is slow, it has a virus.

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We need to switch our vision. Most of student projects happen in the small casem of a classroom.  As a corporation we should have more social feeds addressing projects amongst the schools. For example: 8th graders at Kahler working with 8th graders at Clark and Grimmer to create a Digital Hero Comic Book - or - 7th graders help write a fictional story in Google Slides with 4th graders. Perhaps there could an online project with the St. John Township Food Pantry to help expand their mission with our own.  As more employers and various educational institutions check social media sites; it is critical to have highlights of digital programs within our school network that have demonstrated positive, digital applications.  These teachable moments of appropriate digital decision-making are frequent either online or in-person.  Let’s give the students a chance to see theri project can shine outside the confines of their classroom.

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Talking about digital citizenship with our students is very important, and I find the best way to engage them in the conversation is to listen to their beliefs, concerns, and experiences in their digital world and to build lessons based on what they are dealing with. There are some great lesson plan ideas at commonsensemedia.org to incorporate digital citizenship in the classroom.

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This is something I plan on doing a lot with this year. I was really surprised what my students didn't know about using the internet and online tools when we used them last year. This year I intend to front load the technology so that we can move forward quickly and more efficiently.

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I think some hands-on tutorial sessions offered to the community would be helpful in explaining our continued use of Canvas and other technologies.  I continue to hear things like: "I'm not good at technology.", "We don't have a computer at home.", "I couldn't login so I gave up." It becomes frustrating.