Digital Citizenship 101
Have you heard? School districts around the country are going 1:1! Are you ready? Of course you are! The times of projecting powerpoint slides on the front board are over. Interactive boards are no longer the next new thing. “Put your phones away” is a saying considered unacceptable in some parts. You’ve made it through all of these movements. As times change, we must adjust. Contrary to popular beliefs, while the tools we use have changed, the way we deliver our instruction has not. [...]
Lesson Planning + Technology = Success
When developing lesson plans, there is a large array of information that needs to be considered; standard criteria, student learning modalities, differentiated delivery, areas of strength and weakness, and all of this before even arriving at the content of the lesson. Utilizing technology to aid in lesson planning is a first step to a more comprehensive solution to teacher effectiveness and student success. As demands increase, resources are developed to help curb those demands. The ability to create customized assessments from a repository of performance-aligned questions, pinpoint areas in need of improvement with standards-based assessments, and supplement education with individualized eLearning, can truly help teachers focus on optimizing student learning. [...]
Planning for Change
With all of the dynamic changes in education over the last few years, planning has never been more crucial. The common core shift, paired with enhanced focus on teacher effectiveness has left educators in a unique position that requires calculated balance. In order for teachers to maintain or even increase student performance while introducing new methods of teaching, for both student and teacher, they must find a way to reduce that learning curve while meeting and exceeding expectations. Luckily, as quickly as education initiatives transform, so does the technology designed to help teachers achieve their goals more efficiently and in a fraction of the time. [...]