October 24, 2016
What's Up in the Tech World
Welcome Cooler Weather!
I don't know about you but I am happy to see cooler temperatures. Don't get me wrong, I will be the first to complain when it gets cold but somewhere under 90 is nice. I have a few nice blog posts attached this week.
I will be at Upper Monday and Thursday. I will be at Lower Tuesday and Wednesday. I will be at a meeting on Friday off site. Please let me know what I can do to help you!
Ways to Use Tech
This is a really well-organized post on using technology in the classroom. I would not use all of the ideas presented but there are some really good ones so hopefully, you will find something useful.
Digital Citizenship Week
I am always a bit envious (confession time here) of this tech person's newsletters. Is it wrong to give you a link to a newsletter inside another newsletter ? :) Anyway, here is a great newsletter with resources for Digital Citizenship. Please keep in mind, technology use is such a part of all our activities and the responsibility to teach/model good digital citizenship belongs to ALL of us.
Great article about options for tech and how to encourage discussions!
I know some of you worry about tech but I really loved this teacher's comment in the article. “Teaching will be one of the last jobs taken away by the robots,” said Rowland, “because software will never be the same as a human who is thinking about what you’re thinking and can use that understanding to say, `here, let me unlock this for you.’ ” Andrew Rowland, co-founder and CEO of Classkick