September 2, 2025
September 2, 2025
Embedded Files
Where to find the list of approved extensions:
Where to find the list of approved extensions:
Go to the Approved Technologies List page of the EdTech Website.
There you will find an embedded spreadsheet with an alphabetical list of approved resources.
Scroll to the bottom of the embedded spreadsheet to find the three different tabs.
Click on the tab that is titled "Approved Extensions"
How to install the approved extensions:
How to install the approved extensions:
Follow the instructions above to get to the approved extensions tab of the spreadsheet.
Look at the third column of the spreadsheet tab, and there you will find an Extension ID.
Highlight the Extension ID for the desired extension and COPY it.
In a new tab, navigate to the Chrome Web Store
In the search bar on the Chrome Web Store, PASTE the Extension ID.
This should take you directly to the approved version of the extension. Click on the bar with the extension title. (If this ID does not work, try searching the name of the extension. If THAT doesn't work, put in an IIQ ticket or notify me.)
On the next screen that loads, click "Add to Chrome" and follow the prompts for installation.
What to do if you don't see the extension you want:
What to do if you don't see the extension you want:
If you don't see the extension that you would like to install on the list, you need to navigate to the technology approval request LaserFiche form. Complete the technology approval request form in as much detail as possible. Software, online tools, and browser extensions (including Google extensions) - must be submitted through the Technology Approval Process in Laserfiche before access is granted on district networks or devices. The approval process may take up to 10 days as a number of departments review the requested resource(s). Please have a backup plan until you receive a notification on the progress of your request.
Get the Gist: A Summarizing Strategy
Get the Gist: A Summarizing Strategy
Summarizing Purpose of the ‘Get the Gist’ strategy: ‘Get the Gist’ is an acronym for Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts. It is a summarizing strategy. Effective summarizing leads to an increase in student learning. Summarizing requires students to focus on the main ideas of a text and to decide what is important without omitting key ideas. The ability to summarize has significant benefits for comprehending and ultimately retaining and recalling information. Teaching students summarizing strategies, like ‘Get the Gist’, helps them learn to synthesize information, a higher-order thinking skill that includes analyzing information and identifying key concepts.
Explicitly teaching ‘Get the Gist’:
Step 1: Choose an informational paragraph from a science, history, etc., textbook. Scan the text, pulling out any key ideas from the text features. Read the text. (Pick a textbook piece that contains some trivia, as well as several ideas.) Give students instructions to independently read or read it aloud to students. Demonstrate and explain acts of deleting the trivial information, putting a line through the unnecessary text, highlighting, underlining, making margin notes, etc.
Step 2: Have students read and pick out the who, what, when, where, and why of the paragraph and related important information. This can be done individually by students in small groups, or as a class.
Step 3: Give them the instructions to create a summary of the "gist" with EXACTLY 20 words. No more, no less. Teachers can determine the desired word count based on the audience and the text.
Step 4: In pairs or small groups, guide students in sharing their summaries with one another by reading them aloud. Holding each other accountable for the word count. Instruct small groups to then come up with one 20-word gist using the best parts of each person's existing gist summary. They cannot just use one person's whole gist; it must have components of each student's work.
Step 5: They'll write out their group gist on a large paper and share it with the class.
* Sum It Up is a variation on this strategy. The teacher tells the students to imagine they are going to place an ad in the local newspaper on a specific topic and that each word they use will cost 10 cents. They only have $2.00 to spend, so they can only use 20 words in their summary (or $3.50 and 35 words, etc). An example of this strategy is in this resource.
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