The Ice Bucket
Challenge has been a wonderful phenomenon that has went viral and has touched
the lives of many. So I’m throwing out a Technology In The Classroom
Challenge. I am hoping that teachers around our province will try at
least one new tool or lesson using technology in their classrooms or
professional development. There are many ways to do this and sometimes it just
takes a leap of faith. A few ideas that may help you get started are:
Flip A Lesson - use
video to be viewed at home to introduce a concept instead of a direct lesson (http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/)
Kahoot - try engaging
your students with this interactive quiz making site, make your own or look
through their archives (https://getkahoot.com)
Explain Everything -
try this app to create how tos, screen capture your work or your students work
with this intuitive and easy to use app (http://www.explaineverything.com )
Twitter - can be used
to develop your professional learning community, share ideas with others or
follow those with insight and resources - (http://rossieronline.usc.edu/twitter-for-teachers/
and join #saskedchat)
These are just a few
ideas and there are many others out there. Technology has the potential
to make our classrooms more engaging and provide new and unique learning
opportunities. Still the most important factor to learning in the
classroom is the teacher … we can never forget that.
If you take the
challenge and want to share please contact me and I will include these in
future tech talks. Also feel free to tweet out your attempts with the
hashtag #techintheclasschallenge. Please check out http://teachertechtalkwithdean.blogspot.ca
for this article and past posts, e-mail me at d.vendramin@rcsd.ca,
or follow me on Twitter at @vendi55. Thank you for your time and remember to
innovate, inspire, and collaborate.
