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EdTechTeacher is so thrilled to welcome Dr. Catherine Atkinson to our team of summer instructors. Catherine Atkinson is an experienced classroom teacher, curriculum designer, presenter, and technology coach. She taught history/social science and ELA to English language, gifted, and special education students for 27 years at the middle school level. Catherine has taught in a 1:1 classroom since 2008 where her students used MacBooks, iPads, and Chromebooks to collaboratively and creatively demonstrate their learning. She has served in a variety of leadership positions: history/social science department chair, technology coordinator, master teacher, mentor teacher, and member of the instructional leadership team. Catherine…
I am happy to announce that I have sold EdTechTeacher Inc. to Tom Driscoll, who has now assumed the role of EdTechTeacher CEO. Tom is the consummate professional, a person of high integrity, and a leader of enormous abilities with an inspiring vision of student learning. I have known Tom for more than a decade and seen up-close his keen understanding and application of emerging instructional design models — blended learning, personalized learning, deeper learning, project-based learning, game-based learning, school leadership, and more — as well as his ability to connect deeply with educators at all levels and in all…
EdTechTeacher is so thrilled to welcome Dr. Catherine Atkinson to our team of summer instructors. Catherine Atkinson is an experienced classroom teacher, curriculum designer, presenter, and technology coach. She taught history/social science and ELA to English language, gifted, and special education students for 27 years at the middle school level. Catherine has taught in a 1:1 classroom since 2008 where her students used MacBooks, iPads, and Chromebooks to collaboratively and creatively demonstrate their learning. She has served in a variety of leadership positions: history/social science department chair, technology coordinator, master teacher, mentor teacher, and member of the instructional leadership team. Below,…
EdTechTeacher is so thrilled to welcome Jed Stefanowicz to our team of summer instructors. Jed Stefanowicz is a Digital Learning Coach in Walpole, MA, providing job-embedded professional learning and coaching for academic technology. Through conferences and workshops, Jed aims to engage and build staff/student digital learning capacity, keeping the focus on practice over product. As a 25 year elementary educator, speaker, blogger, and MA Teach Plus Policy Fellow, Jed shares his passion for effective tech integration to transform teaching and learning, and to design experiences that activate, innovate, and motivate digital learning. He is the Author of Take AIM at Digital…
EdTechTeacher is so thrilled to welcome Dr. Rayna Freedman to our team of summer instructors. Rayna is a 5th grade teacher at the Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, MA. She has taught grades 3-5. Rayna is the Past President of MassCUE and has been presenting at the annual conference since 2010. She is a Google Level 2 certified educator, a BrainPOP certified educator, Flipgrid Ambassador, Fablevision Ambassador and Wakelet Ambassador. Rayna will be facilitating a workshop entitled, Ways to Engage Readers, Bringing Authors into Your Classroom, on August 1, 2, and 4. These three one-hour sessions will take place from…
Station Rotations are one of the most effective classroom strategies that educators can integrate into their practice to support personalized, differentiated, and high-quality student learning. According to the research from The Learning Accelerator, by using flexible grouping strategies such as station rotation, teachers provide access to learning materials in a variety of ways, which supports the learner variability found in every classroom. Utilizing these types of differentiated instructional strategies, teachers can create opportunities for students to take ownership of their learning. In this video, EdTechTeacher instructor, Tom Driscoll, leads an exploration of the technique, purpose, and impact of the station…
Google Sheets offers a variety of options for designing learning experiences that facilitate the monitoring of student progress, as well as opportunities for giving timely and effective feedback.
As educators, we are always working to discover ways to support the vast learner variability in our classrooms. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework focused on responding to learner diversity by designing flexible pathways to engage, represent, and express knowledge.
Google Docs and Google Slides offer a wide variety of options for designing learning experiences that facilitate the monitoring of student progress, as well as opportunities for giving timely and effective feedback.
Google Classroom provides educators with multiple opportunities to monitor student progress and provide timely, targeted feedback.
Google Forms is a fantastic tool that can be used to design formative assessment opportunities. With both pre and post teaching assessment strategies, as well as opportunities to check for understanding within the learning experience, educators can design activities that differentiate instruction for students while collecting important data along the way.
How many tabs do you have open in your Google Chrome browser right now? Five? Ten? More? Tabbed browsing is a fantastic way to be productive, but it can also get visually overwhelming and disorganized pretty quickly. There are several strategies to manage tabs. Check them out in the video below.
Google Workspace for Education provides flexibility for educators to create a host of assessment experiences that enable learners to demonstrate their thinking in both traditional and nontraditional ways.
Timely and authentic feedback is a vital component to student learning. The Google Docs comments feature is a fantastic tool to share feedback with students. Teachers can highlight specific sections of text and insert written comments to help students improve their writing. However, this process can become overwhelming with many students in multiple classes. At times, teachers might find themselves repeatedly sharing the same comment with multiple students, which can be time-consuming. A possible solution to streamline the workflow of creating feedback comments is to use Google Keep in conjunction with Google Docs to create a Comment Bank of sorts.…
We are excited to announce that our new monthly EdTechTeacher show “What’s Next in EdTech” is now streaming live on Youtube! In each episode, we highlight exciting news and resources in the world of educational technology. Each fast-paced episode will be 15-20 minutes and include a show notes document that curates all of the resources mentioned during the episode.
