featuring Jared and Kari Wall
SHOW DATE: June 11, 2018
SUMMARY:
News and Notes: Jared and Kari are Level 2 Google Certified Educators. Look for upcoming series with back to school countdown with Google Tools and Tips each day. Tools and Trends: Analytics and Digital Citizenship. Show Topic: Why teachers should shift their thinking from network based storage drives to the collaborative cloud based solution of the Google Drive for PLC sharing and creation.
Flipgrid Feedback or tips from our listeners: https://flipgrid.com/fc470d
Email Feedback: jared@walledtech.com or kari@walledtech.com
SHOW NOTES:
News and Notes:
We completed and published our first podcast. It was fun!
Summer is here and we are continuing our learning. We are attending a few conferences soon and looking forward to learning more about technology, trends, and 1:1 rollouts.
Both Jared and Kari earn their Level 2 Google Educator Certifications.
Discuss what it takes to earn these and where you can find help.
Look for our upcoming Blog Series at our Blog “Handwriting on the Wall” as we countdown the days until school resumes with a Google Tool Tip of the day.
We are looking for ideas and tips from our listeners. If you would like to be featured on an upcoming podcast, email us with a technology tool or best practice you are using in your classroom. You can do this via email or our new flipgrid. See links to the Flipgrid in our show notes.
Technology Tools & Trends
Learning Analytics Tools Provide Real-Time Feedback
Rather than continue to rely on end-of-unit tests to measure student progress, educators will continue to embrace data analytics tools to deliver feedback in real time, said Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, in a statement issued by ISTE in August.
“Tools that can visualize student progress in real time and recommend learning activities based on individual student progress are just becoming available,” said Culatta. “This will allow teachers to intervene and adjust more quickly when students are struggling to comprehend difficult subjects.”
Education expert Matthew Lynch notes on his blog “The Tech Edvocate,” that data analytics tools in the classroom will also be increasingly used as a way for students to track their own achievement.
“Using the mobile and online technology already in place, students can better track and tailor their academic experiences,” writes Lynch. Adaptive learning tools, which use elements of machine learning to modify learning experiences based on student ability and understanding, are also on the rise in K–12 with leaders indicating they have tripled their spending on such tools.
Digital Citizenship Remains a Priority
Digital citizenship was at the forefront in 2017, with schools looking to help their students identify everything from fake news to phishing attempts. Google even partnered with ISTE to create a game that drove these tenets home. While digital citizenship will remain a top priority for educators in today’s tech-driven world, Culatta said the focus will turn away from “what not to do on the internet.” “This year we think we’ll see a shift in the conversation around digital citizenship to focus on encouraging students to harness tech tools to do good in the world and incite change,” he said in the ISTE statement.
(School Hackathons)
From T Drive to G Drive:
It is time to shift the thinking from desktop bound school servers to cloud storage. This goes hand in hand with the move from Microsoft to Google Tools.
The Old Way
Teachers make plans and create worksheets that they keep in binders.
When it is time to teach, binders come out and copies are made of worksheet templates and texts.
The T Drive (Network) Way
Teachers shifted to work on computers using such tools as Microsoft Word and Publisher
Began to shift from floppy disc and hard drive storage to the server (T Drive at our school)
PLC Meetings
One teacher can access a file and update at a time.
Updated worksheet is printed and copies are made.
If you forget to save, you lost the updates.
Only accessible at school on the desktop running on the school server.
The G Drive or Cloud Based Way
Work is created in the Google Drive and is editable by anyone who is given permission.
Gamechanger! Now everyone in the PLC can work on the documents and plans together. Synergy anyone?
The file in the google drive is the most up to date, but the previous versions are a few clicks away.
Create hyperdocs
Work from home or school on basically any device
Stop the print/copy madness. Simply add the Google Docs to Google Classroom or Schoology to allow student access.
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