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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

The CoolCatTeacher

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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10 Most Popular Tech Tips and Click-throughs in 2015

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2015: Top 10 Tech Tips. As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week in 2015, I shared one of those with you. Here are the Top Ten tech tips from 2015.

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Top Education Tweets of the Week: November 7, 2015

The CoolCatTeacher

The informal learning on social media has a very real impact in my classroom. Top Education Tweets of the Week, November 7, 2015. #1 — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) November 7, 2015. #2 — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) November 5, 2015. #3 — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) November 5, 2015. #3

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Sharing Tools for Measuring Impactful Technology Use

Digital Promise

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. New rubric guides classroom technology use. The rubric includes a total of six indicators of impactful technology use.

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How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s an interesting piece from Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, on the explosion of wearable technology and its place in the education ecosystem: How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. The vast majority of students are inseparable from the technology that they carry with them daily.

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The role of technology in the PYP

EdTech4Beginners

This post will outline the aims of the PYP (the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate) and the role that technology plays in helping teachers and students to achieve those goals. For more information, please refer to the IB website. What does the PYP say about technology? Making the PYP Happen).

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5 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015

Catlin Tucker

This activity is a fan favorite and requires zero technology. It’s an informal book chat the combines art, reflection, and food. As I wrap up 2015, I am incredibly thankful for the educators in my life who inspire me and motivate me to continue learning. 1 Thesis Statement Throwdown. My students love it! #5 Thank you!

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