As someone who has worked for a while now helping others learn about effective use of educational technology for teaching and learning, I have seen a number of reflective frameworks, but none of them really hit the spot with me. I just want a framework that will help focus us on whether or not that…
One of the things we need to teach students the most is how to manage all of the tasks and due dates they have to deal with throughout the course of a school day. While many schools are making use of tools like Canvas or Google Classroom to manage the digital workflows of class, students…
I am someone who loves to use data to understand the problems that we are truly facing. If we say something is a problem, we should have data to support it. Schools have an abundance of data that they can use beyond just grades and attendance, which can often provide a wide view of the…
Backchannel tools are not new in education and they have been done well before computers made their way into our classrooms. Just using small pieces of paper as ways for students/others to write down questions and comments during a class/presentation is something that was done well before Google was even a company. However, they have…
I saw this image once while mindlessly surfing online and could never find it again. It said, “Please go up the stairs to the 2nd floor to ask for the elevator to be turned on for use.” So if you were someone who needed to actually use the elevator because you could not use the…
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