After researching all of these topics, the one that stands out the most to me is one that I never thought much about. Being a connected educator. Before this course I never thought about how big of an impact it could have on my classroom, and how simply it could be done. Being connected to …
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This year’s Forbes digital trends for school’s article featured the five tech trends that writer Daniel Newman calls the top “digital transformation” tools for the coming school year. The items Newman mentions are augmented reality, personalized learning, internet of things, AI and big data, and security. I have a little bit of experience with augmented …
Is standardized testing a necessity in schools in the U.S.? What is the purpose of standardized testing? Are the current standardized tests being used in schools fulfilling the purpose they were created with? According to Mark D’Alessio, standardized tests provide a way for checking progress and measuring growth. Two things are worth noting here. The …
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Classroom design is a topic that comes up in education quite often, and it always haunts me. The classroom that I teach in is a computer lab. There are two banks of computers that run perpendicular to my desk, and there are computers on either side of each bank. All of this is permanently built …
Fidgets, are they the miracle device that can help hyper students focus, or are they engineered by the devil to create more distractions in the classroom? If you surveyed teachers across the country you could probably find individuals that fell anywhere along that spectrum. Personally, I’m somewhere in the middle. I don’t encourage their use …
What is a growth mindset, and what is a fixed mindset? The answers to these questions are fairly straightforward, but the classroom implications of each type of mindset are very important. Furthermore, each type of mindset will direct the feedback that a teacher gives in a classroom. A fixed mindset is based on the assumption …
I have been sold on using social media in the classroom, especially for me as a way to share out the things we are doing in class, for about three years. The problem is I have done a terrible job of following through with it. I use Twitter frequently for news updates, Husker football discussions, …
As an elective teacher in the Skilled and Technical Sciences field, I don’t have any previous interactions with the Common Core standards. This article (https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/articles/2014/02/27/the-history-of-common-core-state-standards) by Allie Bidwell does a great job of outlining how the Common Core standards came to be. The intent of the standards is to create national standards for core classes …
Genius hour is a concept I hadn’t heard of before diving in to research this new educational trend. Genius hour is basically a Google policy that allows workers twenty percent of their work time to work on a project of their own creation that has been incorporated into schools. According to a Business Insider article …
What is a connected educator? How does being a connected educator affect your classroom? Will being a connected educator help your students? These are all important questions when reflecting on the connectivity of your classroom and teaching style. Being connected has been major priority at my high school over the past few years, and the …
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