We’re very excited to share the stories of our featured educators and their work with you and hope it will give more educators encouragement to try something new in the classroom. This month, we spoke to Brandy Jackson, who is a technology teacher we’ve had the pleasure of working with on a number of occasions.
With Socrative, teachers can create quick quizzes and assessments that cover the key points of the material discussed in class. It’s a great way to leverage technology to check for understanding of key terms and concepts and it’s really easy to use! Both teachers and students can create an account and teachers can create questions very quickly.
We have another great educator interview to share with you! This month’s featured educator is Jen Leban, a middle school technology teacher from Illinois, who has made use of numerous various technologies, and helped give her students a meaningful (and long-lasting) education! Keep reading to learn more about her efforts in STEAM education.
Whether in the classroom or the library, students need hands-on and future-focused learning experiences, which is exactly what this educator tries to deliver to inspire active learning in her students every day! Keep reading to learn more about our latest featured educator and how Mary uses EdTech in the library.
Welcome to our “Eduporium Featured Educator” series! Every month, we’ll be highlighting the work of one dedicated educator who is using EdTech to empower all students. We’re super excited to share these awesome stories and their accomplishments with our audience! We hope they will give more educators encouragement to try new STEM experiences in the classroom.
Sure, just throwing a VR headset into a classroom and letting kids do with it what they please might not be the best approach. Luckily, there are alternatives, like Google Expeditions. With these programs, students can leverage tailored content in an interactive way all while their teachers guide them through lessons that are optimized for education!
While it may not be as bad as it was once thought to be, there will almost certainly be jobs lost to technology. While there will likely be jobs created in their place, however, there is no denying that technologies like artificial intelligence will have their place in our lives. They are already very much in it, in fact, with services like Siri and Amazon’s Alexa.
We’re all about saving teachers money on the EdTech tools they need for true 21st century learning. True, we are about this every day of the year. Today, however, we’re even more about this because, you know what? It’s Black Friday! Starting RIGHT NOW, you can enjoy incredible, weekend-long savings on some of the best EdTech products in our store.
Wouldn’t it be nice if students got everything they needed to know perfect every single time? Things would run so much more smoothly and everyone would be happier. Right? Wrong. Yes, failure is an absolutely critical part of student learning especially in many of today’s hands-on, STEM-focused atmosphere and making mistakes helps students grow.
Ah, the myth of having summers off. Those outside the teaching profession tend to become filled with jealousy every year about this time because they’re stuck at work and teachers are stuck…doing absolutely nothing. Or so that’s what they think. The fact is that, especially today, teachers cannot afford to take summers completely off.
