3 K-12 ed-tech videos worth your time
All videos courtesy of SchoolWires
Technology fosters connections
Professional Development Coordinator and Project Director at BLaST Intermediate in Canton PA explain how better tools and technology foster new connections. For example, they are using technology to connect kids to kids, kids to teachers in a unique way, and to connect in classroom in different way. It also lets them connect to the community. Community members can be leveraged as experts, presenting their knowledge and experiences to students. The technology also helps democratize the learning experience – for example, students in rural area get to make connections with resources in a city that they wouldn’t have otherwise.
Broad themes in technology and education
Dr. Richard Bozza, Executive Director, New Jersey Association of School Administrators, touches on broad themes in technology and education: budgetary challenges to schools and to students [byob]; ability to connect with students on individual basis; evolution of teachers aging out and new generation coming in that will impact the ‘power down’ paradigm.
The pedagogy of the flipped model
Jon Bergmann, who is the lead technology facilitator at Joseph Sears School and a pioneer of the flipped classroom model, talks about the pedagogy involved in a flipped classroom.
