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Great for all grades, mostly can be benefited from 5th to 12th grade

Google for Education is a comprehensive collection of Google apps that are geared to help support you in the classroom with Google Classroom, Meet, Docs, Slides, Forms, and Jamboard, which is can help enrich your lesson plans and classroom instruction (Google for Education, n.d.).

For my content area, English, Google for Education’s access to the G Suite can help make collaboration easy in the classroom with the students among their peers and myself in addition to easing collaborative efforts with my colleagues. This is great as a singular platform that keeps all the students’ assignments and works collected that is accessible and easy to provide immediate feedback in. From the start of creating a lesson plan, cultivating projects, and facilitating classroom conversation on the literature to taking assessments and assigning grades, this platform makes it easy to keep everyone organized and engaged with their learning by providing transparency among students, teachers, and parents.

For diverse learners, this can be used appropriately to help provide individualized support and track the progress of all learners. In addition, it can help provide extra support to students who have attention disorders because they can access lessons and lectures at home to help them take notes when they feel as if they cannot focus in the classroom. This can also allow for those students to still follow along if they need to go to a quiet space away from distraction when they need to focus. In the same effort, this allows learning to be accessible to students who might be dealing with an illness that causes them to frequently be absent for long periods of time. With Google for Education, those students can stay on track at home and at their own pace with the help of their families and the teacher in an effort to prevent them from falling behind their peers.

Benefits

Helps with time management, allows for educator personalization

Accessibility features that help diverse learners

The organization managing multiple activities

Great for parent communication

Limitations

Doesn't work well with outside systems and programs

Every user has to have a Google account created

Parents are able to not grant their student permission to create an account with Google

Google for Education can help us show students how to not only collaborate with their peers but people outside their classroom, allowing them to work with different classes or even another class at a different school that is working on the same content.  They are also able to get comfortable with all the possible features of Google to help them be successful in college or their endeavors after they leave your classroom. This helps expand their scope of knowledge and access to information when they can collaborate with diverse groups of people under safe supervision. With that, students are monitored and taught internet skills that can be practiced in a safe environment which can later transfer over to their personal interaction with technology and the internet.

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Technology is transforming teaching and learning. It's helping kids learn at their own pace, become creative problem solvers, and effective collaborators. But for those without access, existing learning gaps are only widening. That's why we'll continue directing our products, people, programs, and philanthropy toward a future where every student has access to the quality education they deserve.

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Applicable for K-12

A formative assessment tool that helps teachers provide students with various engaging assessments while providing real-time data for the teachers. Socrative help students sustained engagement throughout the class period as it allows teachers to grasp an understanding of where their students are currently at in their learning and understanding of the content with minimal classroom disruption (Socrative, 2022).

For an English class, this tool can help conduct quick quizzes on reading and vocabulary to conduct knowledge checks on my students. This can help with gauging foundational knowledge that isn’t exactly higher-level thinking but their ability to navigate and understand the functions of the English language, writing, and literature. It can help make formative quizzes more fun for students with features like a countdown that makes these assessments feel more like a game than a test. Socrative allows for secondary teachers to create different “classrooms” that can separate and represent their different class periods, allowing teachers to work on one platform for all their classes in addition to allowing for lesson variation between similar courses depending on the class’ progress.

Socrative is appropriate for all learners as it helps the teacher understand where knowledge gaps might be by having a centralized system of all the collected data. For students at all levels, it is engaging and inviting as it makes quizzes fun and active. This can also help support students who might have social anxiety with features such as silent hand rising that allows students to participate in class anonymously.

Benefits

Provides instant feedback

Allows teachers to see gaps in knowledge to help with instruction and lesson modifications

Accessible as an app for both Android and Apple and as a website

Easy to learn how to use

Limitations

Need to compile results together yourself to get an understanding of a student's overall progress

Limited features like the lack of achievements and alerts if student performance is dropping

Socrative helps students learn how to interact with technology. Students are shown ways how assessments can be engaging through technology tools such as Socrative. This can also help students understand what they need to work on in real-time versus waiting for teachers to grade their papers or assist with their questions in their exit tickets. Students can use their phones to help assist with their learning in addition to providing them with an understanding of how useful multi-interface programs can be to their learning and interactions with technology. By incorporating this tool, students are going to be able to value the content more when the fundamental assessments are showcased in a format that doesn't make them feel like they are being taught to pass a test but instead focuses on engaging in classroom discussions and projects.

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Applicable for 10th to 12th grade

A software that allows its users to create timelines, diagrams, charts, and technical drawings. This can be useful for students and teachers as it allows students to use their creativity to plan, think and project and allows for system integration with other platforms such as Google and is great for lesson planning (SmartDraw, 2022).

In my English class, this can be used to help understand the progression of time in a story, create character diagrams, and different other charts that help students understand the nuances of the stories we are reading in the classroom in a more actively engaging format that allows them to express their interpretation of what we have gone over in class and during their independent reading.

With SmartDraw, we can help students incorporate visualization when they’re learning or showing what they learn. This can be helpful for students who have dyslexia or English-language learners who can greatly benefit from visualization in the classroom. These students can utilize this to help them outline their essays or even as an alternative to the traditional journaling where they can create a visual component to their reading notes that is both helpful to them also helps us as the teacher get a better understanding of how they are interacting with the content, making it more enjoyable for the student in the long run.

Benefits

Easy to learn, provides a helpful Advisor that can be toggled on and off

Provides multiple ways to publish finished work

Has various templates that can be worked from

Limitations

No online download of software

Adjustment period needs to be slowly taught in your classroom for everyone to truly benefit

Paid, different tiers with different access to specific features

SmartDraw can help us show students a different way to think and showcase their thinking. This can either challenge students or help support them share their observations, thoughts, and understanding in a creative outlet. Students can understand how to visualize what is in their head to help paint a picture or provide their point of view of a piece of work that can be shared and discussed with others to broaden their understanding and perspective.

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Generate diagrams from data and add data to shapes to enhance your existing visuals. You can connect to your AWS or Azure configuration, generate org charts from Entra ID, or import Jira data to jumpstart a brainstorming session.

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SmartDraw is a Unified Visual App | Diagramming, Whiteboarding, and Data Visualization

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SmartDraw is a unified visual app that combines diagramming, whiteboarding and data into one enterprise-friendly solution.

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Classroom Activity: Connect With Another Class

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Classroom Activity: Connect With Another Class

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10th grade English Learning Objective

Students will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking, self-management and collbrative skills as they engage in disucssions with diverse groups of peers on their literature.

Technology Tools

WebRoom

A virtual classroom where students are put in a collaborative "classroom" that consists of a mix of their classroom peers and students from a different school who is reading the same literature as them. Students will be able to use WebRoom to engage in verbal discussions while being able to share and collaborate using the workspace, file sharing, and Google integration features during their meetings (WebRoom, 2022).

Google Docs and Slides

Google Docs and Slides are programs within Google Suites that allow for seamless collaboration when creating documents or presentations (Google for Education, n.d.). Students will use these programs to help note their discussions to bring back with them to their regular classroom discussions and to collaborate with their WebRoom peers to create a presentation on their given topic so they can bring it back to present to their home classrooms.

Directions

Students will be randomly spilt into groups that are created in collaboration between the other classroom teacher and me

Students will be given a topic based on our current reading, Hamlet. They are given a week to reflect on the reading and make their personal notes and talking points before meeting with their merged classroom.

Students will engage in discussion among their peers and temporary new classmates in WebRoom where they will discuss the topic they were given and help outline a presentation

Students will fill out their responsibility sheet to assign each member a job as they work collaboratively.

Students will work together with their merged classrooms over the course of two weeks to create a presentation to present as a group that follows the provided rubric

Analysis
This activity helps students learn how to utilize technology to work together with people outside of their classroom. We want students to gain skills in working with unfamiliar and diverse groups of people which can help expand their way of thinking and also helps prepare them to work with people from different backgrounds and people who they might not know as well as their home classmates. Technology is key in this activity as students are going to heavily rely on technology to work together and be successful in achieving high marks in their presentation rubric. This is why it is important that the students have a good grasp of the story elements, and reference to their storytelling activity, as they will need to be able to contribute to a group activity with diverse thinkers and perspectives.

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10th grade English Learning Objective

Students will be able to identify elements of storytelling, such as imagery, voice, and movement, and use these elements to create their own story.

Technology Tools

Book Creator

Students will use Book Creator to help bring their visualization and modern perspective of Hamlet to life by giving them access to creativity, sharing, and accessibility features such as pen tools, templates, online publishing, 'Open Dyslexic' font, and audio transcripts (Tools for Schools, Inc., 2022). This makes the program accessible to all diverse learners to create their interpretation of Hamlet at any level that they currently are at without making it too difficult or easy for students at various learning levels.

OneNote

OneNote is a way for students to show their progress by providing them with an online binder where they can draft their ideas, show reflections on their progress, and explain their final product through reflection.

Directions

Students will choose any scene from Hamlet that they like. That scene, they will need to create a modern interpretation of that scene by creating their own story.

Students will draft their ideas in their online binder

Create a summary of their story

Provide a storyboard or outline of their story

Reflections on their drafting stage, creation stage, editing stage, and publishing stage to show their progression and thinking

Students will use Book Creator to bring their interpretation to life by drawing and writing their illustrations and dialogue according to the given rubric

The student will submit a draft that has followed outlined requirements provided in the rubric

The teacher will provide feedback through Book Creator after going over their draft and current reflections and work progress in OneNote

Once completed, students will publish their story and then present it to the class followed by an explanation of their Hamlet scene modern interpretation.

Analysis
This activity helps students utilize technology to express their creativity with storytelling by showing their understanding of the context and the structure of the story. Book Creator and OneNote will both help support students bring their thoughts and ideas to fruition or publication. Students will be able to show their progress and growth by documenting their reflecting and notes in their online binder which can help them understand their own thought process while providing them with the chance to show their train of thought from beginning to end. This will help students view certain themes in their current worldview and help them make a global connection with the content.

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SmartDraw. (2022). Easy and powerful diagramming. https://www.smartdraw.com/features/

Socrative. (2022). Socrative for kindergarten to grade 12. https://www.socrative.com/k-12/

Tools for Schools, Inc.. (2022). Book creator - Love learning. https://bookcreator.com/?utm_source=EAS&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=trial&utm_term=best-apps-for-education

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