Category Ed Tech Hardware
This blog post is an assignment for the American College of Education, Doctoral Instructional Technology program. Background: The blog was established in 2010. This blog is currently oriented toward practicing K-16 educators interested in educational technology. Sample Computer Lab Refurbish #EdTech… Continue Reading →
What are your technology competencies as a teacher? What should the technology competencies be of a teacher entering the profession? And how do we catch some teachers up with other teachers? What are your Technology Competencies as an educator? #edchat… Continue Reading →
My workgroup encourages teachers in our district to become certified in educational technology tools that our district purchases. We encourage certification in Nearpod, NewsELA, ThingLink, FlipGrid, BrainPop. In fact, we have paid them to be certified in June after school… Continue Reading →
Current teachers have a variety of stances on instructional technology. We may be the last generation of teachers to consider teaching with and without technology as fundamentally different. Students currently view our segmented stance on using and not using technology… Continue Reading →
It is time for my annual list of Twitter accounts you should be following in advance of the largest #edtech conference all year! {See Also: #ISTE18 List, #ISTE17 List, #ISTE15 List, #ISTE14 List} #ISTE19 or #NotatISTE this year ~ you… Continue Reading →
Every once in a while I step back and see the awesome opportunity of attending great conferences like #ISTE19. I know that the first few times I approached conference attendance differently than I do now. It isn’t enough to survive… Continue Reading →
I have been asked to differentiate face-to-face training before and struggled with it. Now, teaching I differentiated all the time for my students… I was embarrassed that I could not differentiate that training, but half of what I was imparting… Continue Reading →
I don’t mean to pull rank on anyone. However, I am semi-professional at how one might mess up in #EdTech. While I could share some tales (read: ALL the tales) about my mistakes I want to instead take a step back. Let’s… Continue Reading →
Educational Technology is a big business. And every vendor wants to sell you. It is your job to keep in mind the guiding principles of your organization (classroom, school, district) – not the job of the #edtech vendor to only… Continue Reading →
Should educators care about the ranking that Alexa, an Amazon company, assigns them? I feel like you already know the answer to this, yes. Yes, you should care. Especially educators who want to promote the materials or services they sell on… Continue Reading →
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