Friday Matinee: Are College Students Comfortable Using Edtech?

 

What do you think?  Are they or aren't they?  A new study shows that about 20% of college students struggle with technology.

Are College Students Comfortable Using Edtech? Maybe Not

What can you do to help ensure that your students are confident in the tech tools you are asking them to use?  Try creating meaningful learning experiences for your students where they are using the tech to show what they know and share their voice.  The ISTE standards for students are a great guide, no matter what age your students are.  

There are also ISTE standards for educators and education leaders.  Check them out.

KATE is also here to help.  Just let us know what you need!

Friday Matinee: 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition

 

The attached report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape.

The pandemic has and will continue to transform the higher education and technology landscape.  This  report looks and what's on the horizon, key technologies and practices, scenarios, implication, and more.  We hope you'll take a look to see what's important for your classrooms.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition

Overview of the report

Friday Matinee: 21 Google Docs Features You Should Know How to Use

Google Docs has a lot of great features that you may not be aware of.  Check out this article and videos to learn how to use features like smart compose, headers and footers, adding text to images, page orientation, publishing and sharing documents, version history, and more.

21 Google Docs Features You Should Know How to Use

If you have questions, feel free to contact someone on the KATE team.  Remember that you can always access previous posts on the KATE blog.

Friday Matinee: Podcasting in the Classroom

As you know, we now have a room set up where you or your students can create podcasts.  Before you do that, you may want to watch this webinar on Podcasting for Personalized Learning.  Jen Giffen does a wonderful job talking about podcasting and she is a podcaster herself!  Here's the description for the webinar:

"Podcasting is a great way to engage in professional metacognition and gives students authentic writing opportunities that can be shared with an authentic audience. Whether you are new to podcasts or you love them and have been waiting to get started, this is the session for you. Join Jen Giffen of #ShukesAndGiff The Podcast to learn about podcasting - from what to listen to for inspiration, to name picking, to logo design, to ways to record & launch. We will share our successes and challenges. No fancy equipment, no costs, just an idea, and some passion. You and your students will be ready to start recording tomorrow!"

In order to watch, you will have to register, but if you are interested in podcasting, it will be worth it!

For more information on teaching podcasting, here's a curriculum guide for educators from NPR.

Friday Matinee: Kentucky's Academic Standards for Technology

The new KY Academic Standards for Technology will roll into full implementation this fall and are a graduation requirement for all K-12 teachers. This video provides an overview of the standards and an introduction to a teacher resource and student example dashboard that has been created to support teachers as they infuse the standards into their classrooms.  The new KY standards follow the ISTE Standards for Students.  

Laura Raganas is a Digital Learning Coach for the Kentucky Department of Education and the state lead for district level Digital Learning Coaches.

Let KATE know if you have any questions or if we can help you infuse these into your teaching.

Friday Matinee: The ISTE Standards Community

The ISTE Standards Community is an open network dedicated to discussions and sharing resources related to the ISTE Standards, including the ISTE Educator and Student standards. Topics may include adoption and implementation, the standards in specific grade bands or content areas, and anything else you want to discuss or share. Start by exploring the content, or post a comment and engage in dialogue after creating an account on ISTE.org. For this community, you can create a FREE ISTE account for access and do not need to be a member. Remember that ISTE is the International Society for Technology in Education. The ISTE Standards Community provides a Professional Learning Network (PLN) where you can explore conversations on technology standards and engage in meaningful dialogue.

Although we teach in higher education, the standards were written for grades P-20. These standards are not only a great guideline for integrating and using technology in the classroom, but they are important in the preparation of teachers who will be going into classrooms where technology plays an important role.

The ISTE Educator Standards are one part of a larger set of standards from ISTE, which include education leaders, coaches, and students. The ISTE Standards put students at the center and provide a nested framework of support for multiple stakeholder groups.

To learn more about the ISTE Standards for Educators, go here. Check out this short video explanation, ISTE Standards For Students and Educators, by Tiffany Feild. You'll find that the ISTE Standards for Educators are your roadmap to helping students become empowered learners and they will help you rethink traditional practices. As you expand your understanding of the ISTE Standards for Educators, you are also connecting to the ISTE Standards for Students in a variety of ways. Join with the ISTE Standards Community to engage with other educators to learn more about how to use the standards in your teaching.

On another note, Arlene Borthwick, Professor Emerita, National College of Education, National Louis University, shared two opportunities to discuss and provide your perspectives on technology infusion in teacher preparation programs. * Attend and participate in this ISTE21 Live conference session being led by Joseph South, ISTE’s Chief Learning Officer, and Ji Soo Song, ISTE’s Senior Policy and Advocacy Associate: Call to Action for the Future of Technology Infusion in Teacher Preparation, Tuesday, June 29, 11:45 AM Eastern. See: conference.iste.org/2021/program/search/...

* Share your perspectives on technology infusion in teacher preparation by participating in a research study currently underway. Responses from full, part-time, and adjunct instructors of educational technology in teacher preparation are requested by June 30, 2021. Learn more about the study by reviewing the consent form at bit.ly/EdTecQSort_Consent

She would be happy to respond to any questions about the above two opportunities. You can email her at aborthwick@nl.edu.

Friday Matinee: Triple E Framework Extended Learning

The last component of the Triple E Framework is to use technology to extend learning to connect students to the real world.  Extended learning includes creating opportunities for students to learn outside of school and create a bridge between what they are learning and daily life.  This can also include learning non-content or soft skills.

Triple E Level 3: Extended Learning

Be sure to check the Extended Learning Checklist and think through these questions as you plan lessons for your students that include technology.

Have a super great weekend!

Friday Matinee: Triple E Framework Enhanced Learning

The second component of the Triple E Framework is to evaluate a lesson to see if the technology is enhancing it or having the students do something that would not be easily done in a traditional lesson.  Enhanced learning happens when the technology creates opportunities for creation or production over consumption of knowledge, creates scaffolds to help students understand concepts or ideas, and creates paths for students to demonstrate their learning in ways that couldn't be done with traditional tools.  

Triple E Level 2: Enhanced Learning

Be sure to check the Enhancement Checklist and think through the questions as you plan lessons where you are infusing technology.

Friday Matinee: Triple E Framework Engaged Learning

So we've looked at the Triple E Framework and even evaluated a few of our own lessons.  To do a better job of evaluating how we are teaching with technology, we need to delve deeper into each part of the Triple E.  This week we are going to look at the first E, Engagement.  It's one component of technology integration and we often embed it thinking that we are engaging our students.  What we really need to know is if it is engaging our students in the content and not just the tech.

Triple E Level 1: Engaging Learning

Make sure you check out the Engagement Checklist on the webpage.  Thinking through these questions will help you determine if the technology is engaging your students in the right way.

Friday Matinee: The Triple E Framework

Now that the spring semester has wound down, I would like to ask you to take a look at a video from a book study on the book, "Championing Technology Infusion in Teacher Preparation: A Framework for Supporting Future Educators".  The International Society for Technology in Education's (ISTE) Teacher Education Network (TEN) is conducting the book study that includes each of the contributor's to the book.  Recently this session was presented by Liz Kolb, an associate professor at The University of Michigan and she talked about several frameworks for teaching with technology, including one she developed herself called The Triple E Framework.  I'm including the video from the book study to introduce you to her framework.

Webinar 4: Frameworks for Technology Integration

No matter what you teach, the Triple E Framework will help you do a better job of infusing technology into your teaching.

Did You Know: Innovations for Learning Summer Conference (On Demand & FREE!)

The Innovations for Learning Conference (IFL) is put on every summer by Fayette County Schools with teachers and administrators from across the state of Kentucky presenting on technology and teaching.  This summer, the 18th annual conference is being presented virtually via pre-recorded videos that you can watch at your leisure.The FCPS Office of Instructional Technology is pleased to offer 28 on-demand sessions covering a wide variety of topics, presented by Kentucky educators with diverse backgrounds.  The conference will go live on June 1st (I noticed many videos are available now) and will be available until August 10th.  Registration is not required.

Go here to join the fun: The Innovations for Learning Conference

I think you'll find something interesting whether it's about engagement, remote learning, Wakelet, or edtech in the elementary classroom - and more!  

Friday Matinee: How to Get Students Engaging With Each Other in Online or Blended Classes

Creating an engaging environment when you are teaching online or in the classroom can be challenging.  Getting students to have a discussion is difficult even in a normal classroom setting.  Bonni Stachowiak's article discusses making it easy for students to interact in online or blended classes.

How to Get Students Engaging With Each Other in Online or Blended Classes

Let us know what you think.  Was there a tool or idea she mentioned that you would like to try?  Things you've tried that worked?  Please share your thoughts on this Padlet.

Friday Matinee: Teaching Effectively With Zoom

In this podcast, Dan Levy, a senior lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, talks on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast about teaching effectively with Zoom.  From having students collaborate in a Google Doc or Slides in a breakout room to how chatting in Zoom allows more students to quickly participate, there are many ideas that can be used in Zoom to make your online classes more effective.

TEACHING EFFECTIVELY WITH ZOOM

To reinforce this information, check out Bonni Stachowiak's article on How do you Make Zoom Breakout Rooms Less Boring. Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

What's one thing that caught your attention in this podcast?  Can you add an idea that worked for you?  Share it here.

Don't forget to check out our Remote Learning Resources website.

Friday Matinee: New KDE Website Multi-Tiered System of Supports

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has launched a new website, KyMTSS.org, to support Kentucky educators in the implementation, improvement and sustainability of an integrated Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). 

KyMTSS is a multi-level prevention system to support student achievement and social-emotional behavioral competencies through an integration of differentiated core instruction, assessment and intervention. 

Information and resources are available for each of the six essential elements of the KyMTSS framework:  

• Equitable Access and Opportunity; 
• Tiered Delivery System with a Continuum of Supports; 
• Collaborative Problem-Solving Teams; 
• Data-Based Decision Making with Comprehensive Screening and Assessment;  
• Evidence-Based Instruction; 
• Intervention and Supports and Family; and 
• School and Community Partnerships. 

KyMTSS expands the framework for Response to Intervention (RtI) and promotes the integration of systems-level approaches and state/district/school initiatives under one comprehensive framework to more efficiently use resources while focusing on improving outcomes for every student. 

You can provide feedback about what future resources might serve you best by completing the KyMTSS feedback survey, and you can sign up for the KyMTSS newsletter by entering your contact information on the form available on the KyMTSS.org homepage. 

	The Standards Team
	Division of Program Standards Office of Teaching and Learning Kentucky Department of Education  300 Sower Blvd. Frankfort, KY 40601
Email: standards@education.ky.gov

 

Friday Matinee: The Power of a PLN

Recently, KATE hosted a PLN Challenge for both students and faculty (staff was welcome too!) to help anyone who is not using social media and specifically Twitter to see the value in developing a professional learning network (PLN) to learn from others.

A PLN is an ever growing and changing group of educators and researchers that you connect with on social media to learn and share ideas, reflections, and resources. How much you share is up to you. You may want to just stay in the background and check out what people are saying - or you may jump in and start sharing and interacting immediately.  It's up to you when and how you interact with your PLN.

This is NOT just for educators! There are people sharing ideas and research for social work, speech pathology, and criminal justice, just to name a few areas.

To learn more and take our challenge, click here. If you complete the challenge, let us know and we'll not only add you to our PLN, but we'll send you a PLN badge to add to your email. Please let us know that you've completed it or if you need help finding people to connect with.

Check out our blog to find previous Friday Matinee and Did You Know? posts.

Friday Matinee: The Hybrid Teacher Survival Guide

Emma Pass is a language arts teacher who was teaching in a hybrid classroom even before COVID hit and many schools went virtual or hybrid.  She is in the process of writing a book entitled, "The Hybrid Teacher", but has shared a lot of the information that is in the book as she realized that teachers needed it now.  I'm sharing this with you so that you have the opportunity to both use anything that would work in your classes and so that you can share this with your students if you are training teachers.  I've attended several webinars with Emma and she is amazing!

bit.ly/hybridteacher

Over the last several months I've sent out several apps and ideas for remote learning.  This PDF really pulls all of that and more together in one document.

Need help with integrating tech?  Contact KATE!

Friday Matinee: Engaging a New Generation of Learners

 

Learn about new findings from a Chronicle survey of high-school and college students around the country about how the pandemic has changed their expectations of how they learn. The findings will be presented by best-selling author Jeff Selingo, as part of a special 75-minute virtual forum examining how college presidents, provosts, and senior administrators can help their faculty best prepare for a very different kind of learner.

How has the pandemic’s shift to remote learning changed students’ expectations for the in-classroom experience? What lessons do the new research results reveal? How are these students unlike those from previous generations? Click here to watch the recording.  You will have to register to view it.

Friday Matinee: What does this say about education?

Take a look at this video:

What does this say about education and how students learn?  How can we bring more of this excitement into our classrooms?

Friday Matinee: Would You Rather Icebreaker Activity

This is a great activity to start class with or do after a test.  You will have to make a copy of this file to make it your own.  Feel free to change the questions or use it as it is.  Your students will look at each slice and "vote" by dragging a star from above each slide to their answer.  When I create activities like this, I keep a copy of the file as my MASTER, then make a copy for my class to edit.  Their answers may lead to interesting conversations!

Would You Rather

If you want to use this with PowerPoint, just go to FILE > DOWNLOAD AS > CHOOSE MICROSOFT POWERPOINT.  It's that easy!!

Have a great weekend!  You might try "playing" this with family or friends!!

Friday Matinee: Google Tips for Remote Learning

If you are using any of the Google apps you will find some great tips in the presentation from Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning.  She presented this at the TCEA Conference in Austin, TX.  Kasey has presented at The Summit here at MSU.

Google Tips for Remote Learning

Not sure how some of these really work?  Just ask and we'll be glad to help.