This week I had the opportunity to observe an edtech coach teaching digital citizenship lessons for classrooms full of students. While the topic of the learning revolved around the use of technology, not one student utilized a digital device during the lesson. In an age in which students are surrounded by screens throughout the day […]
For years I have been asked by educators and administrators what technology skills students should master according to their grade level. Initially, I hesitated to provide explicit answers to this question, as I believe that educational technology itself is philosophically a means for engaging with academic content, it is not an end in and of […]
As an Xennial and edtech specialist, I am comfortable utilizing digital media in my personal and professional life and I seek to utilize varied media to stay abreast of how current events may be affecting our current learners. However, I also realize that my experience and attempts to stay current is not enough to provide […]
The neuroscience of UDL and Daniel Pink’s research on intrinsic motivation both reveal the positive effects of ensuring that students have autonomy and ownership in the learning process. But what does this look like in the classroom? After all, we are called upon to engage learners in academic content, aligned to standards that oftentimes lead […]
Health guidelines in alignment with the COVID19 pandemic have resulted in transient attendance from both educators and students. Last week I was in a classroom in which 17 students were not present in class. In another school I serve, nearly 40% of the student body was absent. Educators are covering quarantined colleagues’ classrooms during their […]
It can be difficult to motivate students to engage with academic content that they may not be inherently interested in. But we know that the more excitement and motivation we have from students, the more memorable the learning experience, the longer the learning will be sustained. Learning lasts longer in our memory when we felt […]
Much has been said of the supposed “learning loss” that students have experienced this year due to pandemic teaching. It may be true that there are students who struggled to fully grasp concepts they would have had a more solid understanding of if they had been in the physical classroom. Yet the last thing we […]
Students today live in an on demand culture full of seemingly endless digital options. With a few swipes on their smartphone or tablet students can download a new game, learn a skill on YouTube, “like” a friend’s post, or send a video message out into the world. Instant access to information and the ability to […]
Educator and student technology proficiency has grown dramatically as a result of unprecedented rates of technology enabled distance learning that began in March 2020 due to the COVID19 global pandemic. And while it is encouraging to see students aged kindergarten through college adept at navigating computing devices and troubleshooting challenges, I have noticed that as […]
As many educators are transitioning from full time distance learning to a hybrid model, it is important that we maintain the momentum we have gained in implementing new technologies. Across the globe, billions of dollars have been spent on technology infrastructure, hardware, software, and professional training. In returning to physical classrooms, we don’t want these […]
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