In this hands-on workshop, you'll dive into the Design Thinking approach—a mindset that values learning from failure, embracing ambiguity, and focusing on human needs. As you work through the stages of Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test, you'll not only experience the process firsthand but also envision how you can integrate the cycle—or individual phases—into lessons, projects, and real-world problem-solving with your students.
Video can be a powerful tool for engaging students. First it allows for visual and audio stimulation that helps students retain information. Second, it is also practical for students who would like to view it multiple times to fully absorb the information. We will explore two tools to bring video to your classroom. Screencasting allows you to make and edit videos so that you can customize the video to include the content exactly as you want it. EdPuzzle allows videos to be interactive. As the video plays, questions and comments pop up that the student must engage with before continuing. This allows you to focus the student on the most important content.
Looking for ways to encourage reading? Come speed date books! Run a March Book Madness tournament! "Lego-fy" book covers! Learn some big and small ways to promote reading and introduce a variety of books to students.
Does teaching and learning in our classroom meet the needs and strengths of all of our students? We will explore the Myers-Briggs styles framework and discuss how it can impact our teaching methods and curriculum design to make a positive and effective learning environment for everyone.
Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms are separate, discrete tools teachers use on a daily basis. What if you could use them in an integrated way to increase the efficiency of your work flow? Come and find out how to coordinate these tools to improve the work flow with your students. How can you connect a Google Form to a Document, that is also connected to a Spreadsheet that you can automate a response to your students with feedback? How can you turn a Google slide show into an assessment that is easy to provide feedback to?
