4 Ways to Maximize Your Tech Budget
Against a backdrop of shrinking school and district budgets, tackling your school’s technology strategy might not be front and center of your overall school goals for 2018. But thinking carefully…
How to Get Started with Virtual Reality in the Classroom
Ever wanted to take your students on a field trip diving 20,000 leagues under the sea, flying on a space shuttle, or spectating in the Roman Coliseum? Well now you can,…
6 Reasons to Include Simulations in Your STEM Lessons
In my first year of teaching a mentor teacher showed me PhET Simulations and it changed my curriculum forever. Sounds like click bait doesn’t it? But it’s true! The first PhET simulation I ever…
2018 Trend: Coding in the Classroom
If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis placed on coding and robotics with robots making an appearance in conference sessions,…
5 Top Ways To Use EdTech in Early Childhood
Educators if you haven’t noticed, education technology is rapidly making its way into the classrooms of our young children. Better yet, it’s here to stay! The only way to keep…
How to Engage Students When Delivering Formative Assessments
In education, the phrase formative assessment is part of daily conversation. It seems as though we are constantly assessing our students to see where they are and how we can…
2018 Trend: Flexible Learning Spaces
It is quite easy to get caught up in what is new and trendy in education, and often those trends are just that, trends. I heavily weigh moving forward with…
How to Take Your Students on a Virtual Field Trip
After reading Cindy Wallace’s amazing post 8 Easy Steps to Creating Virtual Field Trips, I decided to try my hand at creating a virtual field trip for the state of Pennsylvania….
8 Steps to Create a Virtual Field Trip with ClassFlow
With today’s education technology, it is easy to energize the learning environment by providing students with authentic opportunities to see places and meet people previously unimaginable via virtual field trips. This year, students…
Flipping Instructional Opportunities Using Technology
Many years ago, and by that I mean 2011, I entered the world as a connected educator. The summer of 2011 I was new to Twitter and trying to make sense of all…
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