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Technology First: Background, Concept, and Results

by Jeffrey M. Welch Part of my " Technology First " series. For the 2015-2016 school year, a few teachers in my district were given dedicated sets of classroom Chromebooks to use with our students. While some school districts have already made the leap to a 1-to-1 technology deployment, we have not yet jumped in the deep end. Creative Commons Licence: Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elearnroom.jpg Sadly, not my classroom! My colleagues and I were tasked with charting the path forward for our district’s teachers. In discussions with a few collaborators we made a decision to go a little farther than integrating technology, we chose to abandon all that came before and choose Technology First . This post will explain a bit of the logic, results, and implications of that decision. Here is what we told our students on day one: This class is designed using a technology-first model. The class will operate with minimal use of paper, either given...

Taxonomies for Technology Integration: SAMR and TPACK

by Jeffrey M. Welch Part of my " Technology First " series. If you have been in the classroom for a while, you are well familiar with Bloom’s taxonomy. If you are knee-deep in Common Core, you know all about Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK) which, simplistically described, is an update to Bloom’s. In the technology sphere, there is a similar model that has a practical connection to the Bloom’s and DOK, but has been built around levels of technology integration in the classroom. This is called the SAMR Model and it has become very influential in the educational technology universe. There is a second model that has also become widespread, it is called TPACK which is really more about the teachers preparation and the interaction of their skills than it is about the particular lesson. These two models will be the focus of this post. If you spend any time in Edtech circles, or go to any training on technology integration, you will encounter these two acronyms sooner or l...

Don't Be Scared, Google Sheets Won't Hurt You

by Jeffrey M. Welch In the summer of 2016, I had the opportunity to give a training at an Edtechteam summit in Stanislaus County. I chose to build a training around Google Sheets. My reasoning was that Sheets is both incredibly powerful, and often intimidating to users. My concept was to teach users everything they needed to know to get started in one-hour training. Secondarily, I was hoping to prep teachers to take the Sheets portions of the Google for Education Level 1 and Level 2 exams. I have now done this training three times, with substantial modifications each time. Version 1.0 - was a one-hour training with around 20 teachers. It went well, even if a bit too fast. This entire training took place within a single spreadsheet broken up into tabs. Version 2.0 - I beefed up the instructions and added several activities for a Google Certification Bootcamp with the idea that the learners would mostly go through it on their own. Version 3.0 (current) - I decided to break th...

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