Did You Know? Tech Tips
Since this week is ISTE Live, I have decided to share tech tips that I learned while attending ISTE. With so many sessions to choose from, it can be difficult to just choose one. As we begin Day 3 of this phenomenal conference, I am so honored to present at the ISTE Early Childhood Playground today and share my session Empowering Our Littles to Create. Tomorrow, I am presenting at the EdTech Coaches playground and sharing Superchange Learning with Summer Learning Opportunities. This is a brand new session for me and based on the amazing work that we did at my school last summer that helped us have a great virtual start to the year last year.
Tech Tip #1: Have you heard about Genially yet?
On my Saturday session, Manny Curiel introduced me to Genially. Like many other tech coaches in attendance, I had never heard about this tech tool before. So after the session, I decided to explore it a little bit more. Based on its website, Genially shares that the platform creates an "interactive learning experience for 21st century education. " https://www.genial.ly/interactive-content-education
With Genially, you can create a free account and have so many options for what you can create. In addition, there are tons of free templates to choose from. There are options to add more features or Premium content as well. But check to make sure your district has approved it before using it with students.
Tech Tip #2: Check out this learning tool- Raise.MIT.edu
On Sunday. Noelle Silver shared this amazing resource during her mainstage. Raise.MIT.edu is a site dedicated to responsible artificial intelligence (AI) use for social empowerment and education. The resources page is truly an incredible resource including MIT AI Literacy Units for students in Grades K-12. I can't wait to explore this resource more. Definitely check it out.
Tech Tip #3- Consider using Jamboard for your presentations to get more interaction!
I definitely love Jamboard and I have been sharing so many ways that using Jamboard can amplify thinking routines. But now I have a new favorite use of Jamboard thanks to the ISTE Coaches' Panel on Sunday, June 27th. During that session. the coaches used Jamboard for their presentations instead of slides to make it more interactive. I love this idea, but wish that Google didn't limit the amount of participants on a Jamboard to 50 users. It was such a fun and interactive session!
