February 

Digital Pedagogy in the Garland ISD 

This month’s focus on “Digital Pedagogy” explores the teacher's ability to inspire and cultivate student innovation to address real-world challenges.  

In elementary schools, this could include learning experiences in which students collect, organize, and interpret data using digital tools like Google Forms and Sheets to explore possible solutions to current problems. 

EduProtocols 

Add proven protocols to your instruction. The paragraphs below are from the Ditch the Textbook site. 

What are EduProtocols?

EduProtocols are a set of strategies you can use to simplify planning and get results. They're simple activities you can use over and over again, adjusting for new content. They have fun names, like Fast and the Curious, Cyber Sandwich, and Booka Kucha. Call them "lesson frames," like picture frames. You can change the content (the picture) inside a picture frame, but the frame always stays the same.

They are not a product you purchase. Once you start using these activity ideas, they are a way of life! You can find lots of examples at EduProtocols.com. 

Created originally by Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern, the EduProtocols community has expanded vast and wide to ensure all subject areas and all grade levels benefit from their use. EduProtocols are open pedagogy that work with any content area or curriculum.

To discover more about using EduProtocols in your instruction, click here.

You are doing so much everyday! You have grown in using technology in the classroom over the past several years. Are you sharing your successes? Tweet your triumphs!

Create a Twitter account for your professional self. Please add your information to this Google Sheet and advocate for your classroom!

Share with me: @dghtymusicrocks, with the school: @DES_Hornets, and with the Digital Learning Team: @DigitalGISD.

Want to be caught being techy? Email me I'd love to come by your classroom, take some pics, and share your successes!