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Professional Growth
Teachers need resources to grow professionally
Explore online training centers to learn more about the technology tools that are used in your school district.
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Learn from your students by giving them opportunities to "become the teachers" and teach you and your peers.
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Use an open-ended question protocol to best understand a challenge before attempting to solve it.
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Use video tutorials to learn new teaching skills and grow professionally as an educator
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Teachers need ways to observe and learn from colleagues.
Use a video-sharing website to share videos between colleagues and leave time-stamped comments and feedback.
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Utilize a collaborative calendar to schedule classroom visits and attach lesson resources to ensure teachers can preview the content.
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Create a digital observation template to standardize questions and data collection methods for teachers to use as they observe other classrooms.
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Use an online video tool to observe and learn from a colleague (while in another location) without interrupting their classroom environment.
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Teachers need to easily facilitate the sharing of resources with students and colleagues
Store and share resources in a learning management system (LMS) for your students (individuals, groups, or whole class) to access all classroom materials.
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Use an online file storage system with your colleagues to compile and share lesson plans and resources.
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Teachers need to create consistent meetings with colleagues, students, and parents.
Track meetings and time on a collaborative document for both parties to see meeting times and goals accomplished
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Utilize online scheduling software to allow students, colleagues, and parents sign up for times to meet.
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Write a note that is visible for both parties that states, "set up next meeting" during a meeting. Conclude the meeting by setting up a follow-up meeting. Also known as the "Post-it note prompt"
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General Technology Skills
Teachers need effective logistical management of classroom devices.
Manage wear and tear by plugging in at the end of the day, not between classes.
Place bins at the tables for devices when they are not being actively used for a lesson.
Have a signal so that students know when to put devices down and look forward to instructions. For instance, "Give me 45" means to close screens to a 45-degree angle and look up.
Teachers need resources to grow professionally
Explore online training centers to learn more about the technology tools that are used in your school district.
Tools to Try
Learn from your students by giving them opportunities to "become the teachers" and teach you and your peers.
Tools to Try
Use an open-ended question protocol to best understand a challenge before attempting to solve it.
Tools to Try
Use video tutorials to learn new teaching skills and grow professionally as an educator
Tools to Try
Teachers need to easily facilitate the sharing of resources with students and colleagues
Store and share resources in a learning management system (LMS) for your students (individuals, groups, or whole class) to access all classroom materials.
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Use an online file storage system with your colleagues to compile and share lesson plans and resources.
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Students need access to course materials if they do not have WiFi at home.
Write a grant to provide at-home hotspots for students that do not have a WiFi connection.
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Enable offline mode for online resources so students can access their files without a WiFi connection.
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Connect with local business owners, coffee shops, and libraries to find free WiFi hotspots for students. Create and share a document of these hotspots to share with families.
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Allow students to use your classroom before/after school to help them complete their assignments. Utilize technology tools for students to schedule a time to use the space.
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Creativity & Innovation
Students need to explore real-world and authentic technology integration in the arts.
Help students create songs and musical scores to experiment with sounds and demonstrate their musical knowledge.
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Help students explore art collections and historical artifacts from around the world to spark their creativity.
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Help students create and edit films based on curriculum content to demonstrate their learning through cinematic storytelling
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Exploring real-world, authentic tech integration in math
Insert equations and graphs into a Doc or Presentation
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Students can create a screencast to showcase their knowledge of concepts and thinking.
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Use the measuring tool and other features in web mapping services to create authentic examples of math problems.
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Practice graphing and create beautiful visuals using an online graphing calculator.
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Teachers need fun and exciting strategies to increase student engagement in the classroom.
Create interactive and fun brain breaks and use games to help students stay calm, focused, and motivated during instructional time.
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Incorporate competition and game-based learning to better engage students and help them demonstrate their learning while having fun.
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Create a “Get to Know You” activity using an online note-taking, presentation, or data collection tool to learn about your students and what is important to them.
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Teachers need to create lessons that are authentic and meet students’ needs.
Use a problem-based learning and design-thinking process to help students solve problems affecting their community or problems they’ve read about in the news.
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Create a collaborative, digital space for students to engage with lessons by making comparisons to their lives and finding related real-world examples.
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Use social media to connect the curriculum to what’s happening in the real world. Examples: Contact authors on Twitter, create and share blog posts, or write a book review on Goodreads.
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Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in PE.
Teachers and/or students create questionnaires to collect and analyze data about classroom activities. Track data before and after an activity. Examples include a diet and fitness journal, exercise times, reps completed, etc.
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Curate and share video playlists that reinforce certain sports skills or concepts with students to review before or after class. For instance, a playlist can be made of proper passing technique, footwork, swinging motion, etc.
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Capture videos of students in performance and review them in slow-motion.
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Students create step-by-step directions for games and sports by embedding videos in a slideshow.
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Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in science.
Conduct outdoor experiments by observing and logging the effects of sound and light in nature, collecting material samples from the park, or observing animals within their natural habitat.
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Find an expert through online communities and invite them into your classroom using video conferencing tools
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Utilizing the sensors on phones and tablets, students can measure and analyze the world around them.
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View Timelapse videos to push students to think critically about the various formations in our earth.
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Have students design and create a book as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate an understanding of class concepts.
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Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in English language arts.
Find and share news articles at multiple Lexile levels to differentiate content, and reach students with varying reading capabilities.
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Have students create their own virtual tour to explore the settings and locations found in their ELA curriculum.
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Explore places described in the literature using online maps, and help students better understand the settings they're reading about while empathizing with the characters.
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Have students review news articles to gain a better understanding of differing perspectives and points of view.
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Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in world languages.
Use voice-to-text and the translate feature in documents when creating or consuming content
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If teaching a foreign language course, connect students with another class from a country whose national language is the same as the one you're teaching.
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Let students practice their speaking skills and create content in the target language.
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Record a student's oral response to a prompt in a foreign language that the teacher can review and/or receive peer feedback.
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Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in social studies.
Investigate and analyze the public’s interests and concerns of major events by region, time frame, and platform.
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Give students authentic geography experiences by connecting them with other classrooms around the world via video conference.
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Have students add text, photos, or videos to particular points of interest on a digital map in order to build their interest and knowledge of different geographic locations.
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Help students create maps with layers to analyze or visualize topics in the curriculum.
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Teachers need help to find resources and supplies for virtual field trips.
Plan a virtual field trip or connect students with other classrooms through video chats to provide an opportunity for them to learn more about the world.
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Use virtual or augmented reality to allow students to explore the world in a simulated and interactive environment.
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Classroom Management
Students need to uphold digital citizenship standards in how they behave online and offline.
Allow your students to practice their new digital citizenship skills in online spaces like a school blog or website that’s open to the outside world.
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Implement a specialized curriculum or specialized curricula to encourage strong digital citizenship behavior in your classroom.
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Teach students how to safely use social media by modeling with a class social media account.
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Teachers need tracking and monitoring systems to gain insights into student progress and behavior.
Create a badging system to celebrate student achievements and motivate continued progress.
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Monitor behavior and give positive incentives through an engagement management system.
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Create incentives for students by gamifying the classroom, and making learning competitive between individuals or groups.
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Create achievement trackers on a collaborative presentation.
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Teachers need to easily and effectively create small groups.
Use a learning management system (LMS) to organize curriculum content and assign differentiated tasks based on student ability and progress.
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Assign scaffolded articles and journal entries to students based on their level of reading ability.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) to share directions for an assignment with all students while teaching in smaller groups.
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Teachers need more engagement from parents and guardians.
Create a class blog to showcase lessons, activities, projects, and student learning for parents/guardians.
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Send daily/weekly email summaries to parents/guardians and keep them informed with announcements and/or photos and videos of student learning.
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Communication
Teachers need strategies for accommodating students with diverse learning needs.
Use visual presentations of verbal or text-based material such as word webs and visual organizers.
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Use an extension that makes documents and web pages more accessible for students with different learning needs (Examples: extensions that read text aloud or increase larger font).
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Teachers need to communicate with parents who speak a different language.
Use translation tools to create presentations, emails, and other shareable content in a different language for families.
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Students need to build powerful and creative presentations.
Help students demonstrate their learning by visually representing data and information through graphic design tools.
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Use an online podcast creator to help students turn presentations into audio stories.
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Teach students the “CRAP” (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity) design principles to expose them to industry-wide best practices.
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Use web-based, collaborative video software to help students demonstrate their learning through high-quality video presentations.
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Model and teach quality presentation techniques (ex: meaningful images, little text on slides, etc.) to help students create high-quality and professional presentations.
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Showcase student work and extend it to other mediums by creating QR codes that students can scan to learn more about their projects digitally.
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Create a digital rubric with presentation skills to help students understand the design principles and skills of high-quality and professional presentations.
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Teacher needs to decrease their time spent giving instructions and increase student input.
Assign videos for students to watch and answer questions at their own pace.
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Challenge students to create screencasts, or screen recordings with narration, to demonstrate and reflect on their learning.
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Use an online timer to limit how much teachers are communicating verbally and ensure student-talk can be maximized during the lesson.
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Student Agency
Teachers need fun and exciting strategies to increase student engagement in the classroom.
Create interactive and fun brain breaks and use games to help students stay calm, focused, and motivated during instructional time.
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Incorporate competition and game-based learning to better engage students and help them demonstrate their learning while having fun.
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Create a “Get to Know You” activity using an online note-taking, presentation, or data collection tool to learn about your students and what is important to them.
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Students need a brain break.
Use digital games and activities to create interactive and fun brain breaks, and make it easier for students to stay focused during learning time.
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Use collaborative drawing applications to offer brain breaks for students and encourage them to answer questions through art to demonstrate their learning.
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Display activity videos (singalong, dance, exercise, etc.) that promote brain breaks to help students stay calm, focused, and motivated during instructional time.
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Students need options to exercise their voice in how they present their learning.
Design and create a book as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate understanding.
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Give students the option to submit creative responses to questions, such as by voice recording, video, or diagraming as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate understanding.
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Have students plan a skit or performance to creatively share their understanding of key concepts from a unit of study. In preparation for performance have students create a digital storyboard.
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Have students create an explainer video or draw wireframes to explain their development plan for a project.
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Give students the option to show and explain their thinking with an online recording tool in order to evaluate their comprehension of key concepts from a unit of study.
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Teachers need to increase and track students’ participation.
Use question-and-answer tools that allow for real-time student responses to increase engagement and participation during lessons.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) to leverage their dialogue features and increase participation among students
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Teachers need to increase student engagement.
Use a collaborative note-taking tool for students to collect questions, ideas and comments during a lesson.
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Use game-based learning to create interactive quizzes and engage students through fun, competitive learning.
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Teacher needs to decrease their time spent giving instructions and increase student input.
Assign videos for students to watch and answer questions at their own pace.
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Challenge students to create screencasts, or screen recordings with narration, to demonstrate and reflect on their learning.
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Use an online timer to limit how much teachers are communicating verbally and ensure student-talk can be maximized during the lesson.
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Collaboration
Teachers need strategies to encourage collaboration despite limited time.
Use a video conferencing app to meet from different locations in order to save travel time.
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Use a collaborative note-taking application as a running agenda in order to asynchronously crowdsource ideas and resources.
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Create and share template resources for things like teacher lesson planning docs, student planners, parent-teacher conferences, etc, to share across schools within a district.
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Students need a brain break.
Use digital games and activities to create interactive and fun brain breaks, and make it easier for students to stay focused during learning time.
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Use collaborative drawing applications to offer brain breaks for students and encourage them to answer questions through art to demonstrate their learning.
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Display activity videos (singalong, dance, exercise, etc.) that promote brain breaks to help students stay calm, focused, and motivated during instructional time.
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Teachers need to increase and track students’ participation.
Use question-and-answer tools that allow for real-time student responses to increase engagement and participation during lessons.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) to leverage their dialogue features and increase participation among students
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Teachers need to increase student engagement.
Use a collaborative note-taking tool for students to collect questions, ideas and comments during a lesson.
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Use game-based learning to create interactive quizzes and engage students through fun, competitive learning.
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Teacher needs to decrease their time spent giving instructions and increase student input.
Assign videos for students to watch and answer questions at their own pace.
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Challenge students to create screencasts, or screen recordings with narration, to demonstrate and reflect on their learning.
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Use an online timer to limit how much teachers are communicating verbally and ensure student-talk can be maximized during the lesson.
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Planning & Prep
Teacher needs students to follow directions quickly and efficiently.
Use applications or extensions to display important information, such as lesson objectives, to students while the teacher is leading instruction.
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Help students -- especially visual learners -- create video lesson prompts to explain directions and post them in a learning management system.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) or a collaborative note-taking app for students to access lessons and classroom resources.
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Use a video creation tool to create directions, tutorials or share lesson objectives with students and their families.
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Challenge students to use a collaborative note-taking app to create shared class notes that can be accessed from anywhere.
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Teachers need to track “in-the-moment” student data.
Use an auto-grading tool to provide students immediate feedback on assignments.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) to easily track assignments and grades.
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Create digital notes to keep track of feedback on student’s learning needs, performance and achievement.
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Teachers need to easily facilitate the sharing of resources with students and colleagues
Store and share resources in a learning management system (LMS) for your students (individuals, groups, or whole class) to access all classroom materials.
Tools to Try
Use an online file storage system with your colleagues to compile and share lesson plans and resources.
Tools to Try
Teachers need to easily and effectively create small groups.
Use a learning management system (LMS) to organize curriculum content and assign differentiated tasks based on student ability and progress.
Tools to Try
Assign scaffolded articles and journal entries to students based on their level of reading ability.
Tools to Try
Use a learning management system (LMS) to share directions for an assignment with all students while teaching in smaller groups.
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Students need an authentic audience outside of the classroom to share their work.
Take pictures or short videos of student work to showcase on a website or newsletter.
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Create opportunities for students to write essays or opinion articles that can be viewed and responded to by an audience outside of their classroom.
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Connect with another class from across the globe either on a live video conference or asynchronously through recorded mini videos.
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Consider partnering with a class outside of your school and have students co-create and share a podcast or video blog using online collaborative tools.
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Teachers need more time and resources to plan high-quality lessons.
Use a SAMR self-assessment to evaluate and redesign current lessons and ensure tech is being used effectively.
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Use a collaborative note-taking application to create lesson plans that can be shared with colleagues and take advantage of their pre-made templates to save time.
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Teachers need to create lessons that are authentic and meet students’ needs.
Use a problem-based learning and design-thinking process to help students solve problems affecting their community or problems they’ve read about in the news.
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Create a collaborative, digital space for students to engage with lessons by making comparisons to their lives and finding related real-world examples.
Tools to Try
Use social media to connect the curriculum to what’s happening in the real world. Examples: Contact authors on Twitter, create and share blog posts, or write a book review on Goodreads.
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Teachers need more engagement from parents and guardians.
Create a class blog to showcase lessons, activities, projects, and student learning for parents/guardians.
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Send daily/weekly email summaries to parents/guardians and keep them informed with announcements and/or photos and videos of student learning.
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Students need to access and understand classwork when they are chronically absent from school.
Allow absent students to video chat with a partner during a class period in order to work on a group project, or gain a better understanding of an assignment that is posted online.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) or a collaborative note-taking app so students can access lesson content and resources, and communicate with the teacher.
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Help students create collaborative class notes with pertinent information and reference links.
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Record lessons with a screencasting app or online video tool so students can view classroom instruction from their personal devices.
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Teachers need help pacing lessons to finish within an allotted period of time.
Create flipped classroom lessons by producing short video screencasts. Use these lessons to maximize class time by having students watch them in small groups or at home.
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Use presentation tools to organize lessons and better manage instructional content. Embed video timers within the presentation to help with pacing.
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Teachers need to streamline grading processes.
Teach students how to provide meaningful peer feedback through shared documents.
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Utilize collaborative documents to facilitate peer reviews and empower students to grade one another’s work via a digital rubric.
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Create digital quizzes and use an auto-grading tool to provide students immediate feedback on assignments.
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Teachers need to create consistent meetings with colleagues, students, and parents.
Track meetings and time on a collaborative document for both parties to see meeting times and goals accomplished
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Utilize online scheduling software to allow students, colleagues, and parents sign up for times to meet.
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Write a note that is visible for both parties that states, "set up next meeting" during a meeting. Conclude the meeting by setting up a follow-up meeting. Also known as the "Post-it note prompt"
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Critical Thinking
Students need to become thoughtful and critical media consumers.
Create a collaborative document based on the CRAP test for students to evaluate the currency, reliability, authorship, and purpose of their information.
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Teach students how to use advanced search engine features to find and save information within a specific set of criteria.
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Teachers need to design learning activities that encourage deep critical thinking.
Ask students to sketchnote their ideas or a lesson using a drawing tool or simple pen and paper to synthesize information.
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Push student thinking about environmental issues such as water erosion, earthquake damage, or population density by examining time-lapse satellite imagery.
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Teach students to use data to tell stories by comparing and analyzing publicly available data over time.
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Engage students and build problem-solving and critical thinking skills through specially designed classroom games and challenges.
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Students need to learn how to legally use and cite their work.
Teach students how to properly search and cite information for assignments in order to avoid plagiarism.
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Teach students the importance of proper citation and legal use and how they can legally use their work by creating custom media licenses.
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Teachers need fun and exciting strategies to increase student engagement in the classroom.
Create interactive and fun brain breaks and use games to help students stay calm, focused, and motivated during instructional time.
Tools to Try
Incorporate competition and game-based learning to better engage students and help them demonstrate their learning while having fun.
Tools to Try
Create a “Get to Know You” activity using an online note-taking, presentation, or data collection tool to learn about your students and what is important to them.
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Students need to build productive work habits and learn how to put effort into assignments.
Help students increase their efficiency by giving them short-term deadlines using digital timers.
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Use protocols and productivity techniques for structured collaboration so that students need to work together and individually to figure out problems.
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Use daily internet search challenges to build perseverance and enforce research skills.
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Students need tasks that challenge them to respond at a higher cognitive level
Use a learning management system (LMS) to ask questions to your class and create a dialogue among students using discussion tools.
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Create an easily accessible digital rubric with examples of low and high-level responses to provide scaffolding for students.
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Teaching is the best way to learn, so help students share what they learned with each other through digital presentations.
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Assessment
Teachers need to give timely feedback on student work.
Use a learning management system (LMS) to give feedback directly on students’ work.
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Create and share notes between teacher and student to leave comments, feedback, and next steps.
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Record auditory feedback on student work, then ask them to record audio responses to your feedback.
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Create and share notes between teacher and student to leave comments, feedback, and next steps.
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Highlight text and insert inline comments to give feedback directly on students’ writing.
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Teachers need strategies to ascertain whether students have mastery over the lesson material
Design and create a book as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate understanding.
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Have students use a collaborative whiteboard to share their ideas through diagrams or sketchnotes rather than written text.
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Create exit tickets to gain feedback on how students are doing and observe trends in their lesson comprehension.
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Have students verbally record their thoughts, listen to them, and reflect on what they have learned.
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Teachers need to track “in-the-moment” student data.
Use an auto-grading tool to provide students immediate feedback on assignments.
Tools to Try
Use a learning management system (LMS) to easily track assignments and grades.
Tools to Try
Create digital notes to keep track of feedback on student’s learning needs, performance and achievement.
Tools to Try
Teachers need tracking and monitoring systems to gain insights into student progress and behavior.
Create a badging system to celebrate student achievements and motivate continued progress.
Tools to Try
Monitor behavior and give positive incentives through an engagement management system.
Tools to Try
Create incentives for students by gamifying the classroom, and making learning competitive between individuals or groups.
Tools to Try
Create achievement trackers on a collaborative presentation.
Tools to Try
Students need options to exercise their voice in how they present their learning.
Design and create a book as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate understanding.
Tools to Try
Give students the option to submit creative responses to questions, such as by voice recording, video, or diagraming as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate understanding.
Tools to Try
Have students plan a skit or performance to creatively share their understanding of key concepts from a unit of study. In preparation for performance have students create a digital storyboard.
Tools to Try
Have students create an explainer video or draw wireframes to explain their development plan for a project.
Tools to Try
Give students the option to show and explain their thinking with an online recording tool in order to evaluate their comprehension of key concepts from a unit of study.
Tools to Try
Content Support
Students need to explore real-world and authentic technology integration in the arts.
Help students create songs and musical scores to experiment with sounds and demonstrate their musical knowledge.
Tools to Try
Help students explore art collections and historical artifacts from around the world to spark their creativity.
Tools to Try
Help students create and edit films based on curriculum content to demonstrate their learning through cinematic storytelling
Tools to Try
Exploring real-world, authentic tech integration in math
Insert equations and graphs into a Doc or Presentation
Tools to Try
Students can create a screencast to showcase their knowledge of concepts and thinking.
Tools to Try
Use the measuring tool and other features in web mapping services to create authentic examples of math problems.
Tools to Try
Practice graphing and create beautiful visuals using an online graphing calculator.
Tools to Try
Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in science.
Conduct outdoor experiments by observing and logging the effects of sound and light in nature, collecting material samples from the park, or observing animals within their natural habitat.
Tools to Try
Find an expert through online communities and invite them into your classroom using video conferencing tools
Tools to Try
Utilizing the sensors on phones and tablets, students can measure and analyze the world around them.
Tools to Try
View Timelapse videos to push students to think critically about the various formations in our earth.
Tools to Try
Have students design and create a book as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate an understanding of class concepts.
Tools to Try
Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in world languages.
Use voice-to-text and the translate feature in documents when creating or consuming content
Tools to Try
If teaching a foreign language course, connect students with another class from a country whose national language is the same as the one you're teaching.
Tools to Try
Let students practice their speaking skills and create content in the target language.
Tools to Try
Record a student's oral response to a prompt in a foreign language that the teacher can review and/or receive peer feedback.
Tools to Try
Students need to explore real-world, authentic tech integration in social studies.
Investigate and analyze the public’s interests and concerns of major events by region, time frame, and platform.
Tools to Try
Give students authentic geography experiences by connecting them with other classrooms around the world via video conference.
Tools to Try
Have students add text, photos, or videos to particular points of interest on a digital map in order to build their interest and knowledge of different geographic locations.
Tools to Try
Help students create maps with layers to analyze or visualize topics in the curriculum.
Tools to Try
Differentiation
Teachers need strategies for accommodating students with diverse learning needs.
Use visual presentations of verbal or text-based material such as word webs and visual organizers.
Tools to Try
Use an extension that makes documents and web pages more accessible for students with different learning needs (Examples: extensions that read text aloud or increase larger font).
Tools to Try
Teachers need to communicate with parents who speak a different language.
Use translation tools to create presentations, emails, and other shareable content in a different language for families.
Tools to Try
Teachers need to easily and effectively create small groups.
Use a learning management system (LMS) to organize curriculum content and assign differentiated tasks based on student ability and progress.
Tools to Try
Assign scaffolded articles and journal entries to students based on their level of reading ability.
Tools to Try
Use a learning management system (LMS) to share directions for an assignment with all students while teaching in smaller groups.
Tools to Try
Students need options to exercise their voice in how they present their learning.
Design and create a book as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate understanding.
Tools to Try
Give students the option to submit creative responses to questions, such as by voice recording, video, or diagraming as an alternative to an essay or quiz to demonstrate understanding.
Tools to Try
Have students plan a skit or performance to creatively share their understanding of key concepts from a unit of study. In preparation for performance have students create a digital storyboard.
Tools to Try
Have students create an explainer video or draw wireframes to explain their development plan for a project.
Tools to Try
Give students the option to show and explain their thinking with an online recording tool in order to evaluate their comprehension of key concepts from a unit of study.
Tools to Try
Teachers need different strategies to give students individual opportunities for learning at their own pace.
Create a video playlist with tutorials for students to watch for extra support or challenges.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) to push out extra resources or video tutorials to individual students or small groups.
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Create a multimedia text set (MMTS) with different exploration opportunities for students to complete, give students choice of task.
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Teachers need to be adaptable and give students experiences in different learning styles.
Post QR codes at different stations in the classroom, in the hallway, or outside to get students out of their seats to promote curiosity and inquisitiveness.
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Start the unit or lesson with a problem, a challenge or some type of inquiry-based activity to engage the learners.
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Family & Community Engagement
Teachers need to build stronger relationships and deeper connections with students.
Open communication with students using a collaborative note-taking tool, or the conversational features of a learning management system (LMS) including messaging tools and discussion boards.
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Encourage students to comment on each other’s homework or classwork and participate in online class discussions.
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Create a check in/check out system to get immediate insight into how a student is feeling. Example: “what are your wonders for today after reading the lesson goals?”
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Create a shared class calendar to allow students to input dates of sports games and other extracurricular activities that classmates and teachers might attend.
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Create a shared class calendar to allow students to input dates of sports games and other extracurricular activities that classmates and teachers might attend.
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Teachers need to communicate with parents who speak a different language.
Use translation tools to create presentations, emails, and other shareable content in a different language for families.
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Students need an authentic audience outside of the classroom to share their work.
Take pictures or short videos of student work to showcase on a website or newsletter.
Tools to Try
Create opportunities for students to write essays or opinion articles that can be viewed and responded to by an audience outside of their classroom.
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Connect with another class from across the globe either on a live video conference or asynchronously through recorded mini videos.
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Consider partnering with a class outside of your school and have students co-create and share a podcast or video blog using online collaborative tools.
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Students need to access and understand classwork when they are chronically absent from school.
Allow absent students to video chat with a partner during a class period in order to work on a group project, or gain a better understanding of an assignment that is posted online.
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Use a learning management system (LMS) or a collaborative note-taking app so students can access lesson content and resources, and communicate with the teacher.
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Help students create collaborative class notes with pertinent information and reference links.
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Record lessons with a screencasting app or online video tool so students can view classroom instruction from their personal devices.
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Teacher needs to decrease their time spent giving instructions and increase student input.
Assign videos for students to watch and answer questions at their own pace.
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Challenge students to create screencasts, or screen recordings with narration, to demonstrate and reflect on their learning.
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Use an online timer to limit how much teachers are communicating verbally and ensure student-talk can be maximized during the lesson.
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