This session is designed to empower teachers with resources and best practices for teaching elements such as adaptability, workplace readiness, communication, and other job skills. We will explore strategies, templates, and the free lesson sets available from Google’s Applied Digital Skills platform. These are pre-built lessons with video instruction focusing on skills like building resumes and budgets, sending emails, and interviewing. Teachers will come away with an abundance of ready-to-use lessons and ideas.
Impactful Technology Use for Lesson Design
Digital Media & Performing Arts
This session will highlight an actual classroom experience from a teacher in middle school CTE. Showcasing what students can create through videography and digital media. Tools used will be GSuite, Flipgrid, WeVideo, & more. Actual student examples & strategies will be offered.
Google Sheets for Data Analysis and More
Learn to use basic functions in Google Sheets for creating graphs and streamlining data analysis. After this session, educators will be able to use functions, formulas, and other tools in spreadsheets and even use formulas to translate text into different languages. You can even teach this same lesson to your students!
Experiential Teaching through Technology – Construction
Using Project-Based Learning to produce authentic experience in CTE education. Learn how students can build skateboards, guitars, robotics, and 3D print to learn the construction process.
Collecting and Organizing Information with Google Forms and Sheets
Learn the basics of Google Forms, including creating a variety of question types, layout and functionality within Google Forms. You’ll also learn about Google Sheets and how to analyze data with Sheets.