🔮 May Featured Resources 🔮
Future of Education
Google recently released it's 3 part Future of Education publications. As teachers and students march towards a radically evolving future, Google's reports are meant to guide educators as they consider the role education will play in the future. Part 1 focuses on three educational trends identified during Google's research process: a rising demand for global problem solvers, a change in the skill sets required for work, and a shift to a lifelong learning mindset. The slide show to the left highlights the main findings related to changing workplace skills. Implications for what and how we teach in the era of AI are huge. All 3 reports can be found here.
ISTE Standards for Teachers 2.6.c: Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use the design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.
Jobs of the Future
🤑 Blockchain Talent Analyst
Freelance Virtual Clutter Organizer
🛰️ Swarm Artist
Cyborg Psychologist
These job opportunities didn't even exist when we were career planning in high school. They are, however, jobs that your students may soon thrive in. To share a list of 100 Jobs of the Future with your students, visit the Future of Jobs project page to the right. The list was prepared in part by Ford Australia to assist young people in considering their career options and how their interests may lead them to these emerging professions. Classroom support activities are provided in the Educational Resources section.
ISTE Standards for Teachers 2.1.c.: Stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences.
Question Well is a free AI multiple choice question generating tool. Similar to Conker.ai, questions are generated from copied text that has been pasted in. Not only will you get questions from multiple DOK levels, QuestionWell will generate multiple learning objectives tied to the questions generated. Export the questions into a spreadsheet that can be imported into gaming platforms like Kahoot!.
📺 Crash Course videos have hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, and are popular in classrooms across the country. If you and your students are interested in learning more about artificial intelligence, there's an Artificial Intelligence Crash Course with 20 videos available. Video topics include: “How YouTube Knows What You Should Watch,” and “How to Make AI Read Your Handwriting.”
2023-2024 EdTech Workshops
To the left is a Professional Development flyer containing excerpts from the district's Strategic Plan. In the document, you'll find available EdTech workshops that align with various requirements of the plan's action steps. Please read the proposed workshop descriptions and start talking to your site administrators about scheduling these sessions for the 2022-2023 school year. The workshops can take place at your campus, for groups of any size, and on days and times that are most convenient for you!
The ultimate district collection of Synergy, iReady, Beyond SST, CAASPP, Physical Fitness Test, and NNAT3 resources!!