Cycle 2: Organization & Study Aid Tech Tools

"This tool provides students a “game-approach” to learning in which students are actively engaged with classroom material to solve a puzzle." -- Brenden Picard

"Not all speed is movement' is the first statement that stood out to me when it comes to technology integration. I think the Covid-19 outbreak has become a major turning point in the importance of tech investment in education. However, the implementation is often like a sprint while the users (teachers and students) might prefer to walk. Some might be unable to walk at all (e.g., older teachers and students). Tech innovations often ignore these people and label them as “outdated” educators for not being able to follow the current. This is saddening, to be honest." - Nanak Hikmatullah

"By critically examining tech and different tech tools as educators, we can create an even more inclusive environment in our classrooms, valuing each student for who they are as well as their unique backgrounds. Everyone deserves to use technology that makes them feel seen, respected, and supported." -- Julia Gabriel

"...the amount of money and time spent on platforms that just reinforce practices in place seems like a moment of “limited imagination”. There are so many ways to provide feedback to students to help them improve, and many of those ways can be facilitated by technology, but instead the energy is devoted to platforms that reinforce the old ways, probably because those platforms were pitched as a step towards a technological utopia for teachers, and, more ominously, as a way to more easily track data on large numbers of students." -- Matthew Flood

"The internet is quickly advancing and updating itself, but what is placed on the internet has a level of permanence. Children do not have the ability to understand or consent to this level of permanence. The written record, placed under public scrutiny, is held to a higher level of moral perfectionism than what is said aloud and forgotten. Things children say as minors, they may be held accountable years later, as these accounts may follow them for years or for life." -- Savannah Breen