Ed Tech in Our Classrooms

This is my cat, Zinnia. He can play an electronic version of catch the mouse 4 hours on the iPad. So is this an example of good screen time or bad screen time?

This was easier than I thought it would be. I placed my three face to face classes of students into a Class Dojo. Let's see if I can make it work with 67 students.

Students in our 5th grade classes put on presentations for parents today showing off their own Google Slides presentation and the photo spheres I helped them build last week.

I gave a talk at EMU for the MLK Day academic program: Digital Citizenship and Information Equity in K12 Schools. Thanks to everyone who attended.

When I took a recent tour of an elementary school, I caught a view of their student iPad screens. Fair warning when you are visiting classrooms to check out their technology - not every application is used by the student and not every application is known by the teachers. You need to ask questions about what they use before you get too concerned about your own skillset.

Are these boards still in classrooms you have encountered or are they soon to be a thing of the past? Can you access jamboard.google.com on the EMU network? Have you ever used this app?

When you become a new technology-using teacher you are bound to encounter computer labs. Some schools have completely abandoned them and replaced them with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programs. Our computer labs are no different. Here are two of my hardworking LTEC students working around the in house desktop machines.