Boosting Student Learning through Educational Technology

Jeff sits down with Steven Anderson and Eric Sheninger to discuss how they are educating a generation of digital learners.

Topics Covered:

• What are we looking forward to as the new school year approaches?
• How are we getting ready for school differently this year as opposed to in years past?
• Suggestions for starting our students on the right track this year?
• Empowering Integration
• How should technology be introduced into our classrooms?
• How can we help our teachers learn about these technologies?
• What types of PD should we be giving our teachers.
• What types of technology should be introduced into our classrooms? (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Blogs, Wiki's, Podcasts, iPads, iPhones, internet devices)
• What types of accounts should we be asking our students to have? (twitter, dropbox, google…etc..)
• Internet Safety and Security…. Keeping students, teachers and school districts safe
• Should teachers use more Google in the classroom?
• How should we be inviting our students to share files between home and school?
• Having phones in school vs having iPads in schools (both students and teachers)
• Encouraging our students to help teachers prepare for lessons…. (finding topics online and submitting them for research materials…. livebinder activities)
• Are we as teachers preparing our students for the current future or the future yet to come?
• How are schools using and managing table devices and app purchases

Websites and Apps Discussed:

• Poll Everywhere
• Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System
• Edmodo
• Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students
• Wordle
• Beautiful Word Clouds
• Blogger
• Moodle
• open-source community-based tools for learning
• Ning
• Create a Social Networking Site with Ning, the Best Social Site Platform
• Twitter
• PD 360
• The world’s first and largest online, on-demand professional development platform for educators.
• SimpleK12
• Educational Technology Made Simple
• Atomic Learning 
• Education: Professional Development, Technology Integration and Software Training and Support Solutions – Atomic Learning
• Teachscape: K12
• Effective Teaching | Teaching Strategies | School Performance | School Improvement | Student Achievement
• Groupboard
• Evernote
• Remember Everything
• Dropbox 
• Cloudbased File Storage
• Diigo
• Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.
• Delicious
• Online Bookmarks
• http://twitterrific.com/
• Twitter Client
• Feeddler
• RSS Reader for iPad and iPhone
• Documents To Go®
• Office Suite