When I first wrote this article seven years ago, remote teaching was something done on snow days, teaching from home short-changed student learning, and parents were too busy to get involved in their child's education. So much has
changed. Here's an update on this popular post to reflect what my grad students tell me they now face. Read more |
Aristotle famously said, "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
As a teacher, I have a different opinion. The process of learning should be as joyous as the end result. Luckily, Lainey Franks agrees with me. She is a former educator with 15 years experience in the classroom. In 2022 she became the CEO of Tools for Schools, the developers of Book Creator - an inclusive, creative
edtech tool. I think I would have liked being in her classroom. Here are her five tips for bringing pizazz back to education, using a great tool students in my classes love: Read more I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I'm going
to take time this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I've found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding
learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools--taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular. Click for more |
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