The new school year is here for many teachers. For those who haven’t started school yet, the new school year will be here soon. If you’ve set the goal of trying something new in your classroom this year (shouldn’t that always be one of our goals), here are eleven techy things teachers should try this year.
via Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year.
This blog post offers a nice list of techy things that could be working in your classroom or school - but why wait for teachers to try them?
If any of these things sound good to you - let your students help you out! If you have GenYES students, your own student tech team, or just an interested helper or two, let them do the legwork on investigating a tool and becoming an in-house expert.
Students can then demonstrate these tools in classroom demonstrations, teach teachers how to use them, or be available as mentors during library or computer lab open sessions.
This simple idea helps walk the talk of student empowerment and student-centered technology and helps the new school year start off on the right foot!
Sylvia
