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Instructional Tech. Overview

Presentation for all faculty and staff, 2017-18

Instructional Technology Overview

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Digital Teaching

    • Common Sense Education: Find the best edtech tools, get tips for bringing technology into the classroom, and go deeper with professional development opportunities for yourself and your school. Get started with top-rated resources that prepare students to be creative and collaborative digital learners.
      • Reviews and Ratings: Use filters to sort by grade level, subject, platform, and more.
      • Browse Top Picks: Top Picks are editorially curated lists of the best edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education. You can browse by grade, subject, and/or skill.
      • Teaching Strategies: Get quick and easy teaching strategies for integrating technology into the classroom.
      • Lesson Plans: These innovative, tech-rich lesson plans combine great digital tools and inspiring teaching practices.

Subject Area Resources

Math Instruction

    • Mathalicious: Real-world lessons from Mathalicious help middle and high school teachers address the Common Core Standards while challenging their students to think critically about the world.
    • GeoGebra: GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.
    • Desmos: online graphing calculator and math activities
    • CodeCogs: Online LaTeX equation editor
    • Wolfram Alpha: an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports.
    • Manifest: Manifest has resources you can use to enrich your math class. Our math simulations allow learners to visualize and interact with any number or function. Our puzzles are wonderful for enrichment in class or for use in math clubs. Classroom tools can be found in the Resources menu.
    • EquatIO Math Made Digital: The EquatIO Chrome extension makes math digital, helping teachers and students at all levels create math expressions quickly and easily.
    • MB-Ruler for Chrome: MB-Ruler add three instruments for measuring to your browser: a triangular ruler to measure distance and angles; a horizontal and vertical ruler with help lines; a screen grid that divides the web site in equal rectangles. All three instruments can be shown and hidden by a simple click.
    • Visnos Interactive Mathematics: Free interactive teaching resources, help visually teach Multiplication,Division,telling the time, angles, fractions and much more.
    • Graph.tk: Graph.tk is an online and open-source graphing utility. Use the "+" button to create a new equation. Use "/" for fractions, "^" for exponentials, and "*" for multiplication. To type special characters use "\name". For example, "\sqrt" yields √, and \pi produces a π. Click the ">_" button in the app to get a calculator where you can calculate derivatives.
    • RoboCompass: This app lets you teach and learn Geometry. It has paper, a straightedge, a compass, a protractor, a setsquare, and a pencil, all in 3D. With just a handful of commands you can start congruence, similarity, ratio, reflection, etc.

Science Instruction

    • Understanding Science: from UC Berkeley, the mission of Understanding Science is to provide a fun, accessible, and free resource that accurately communicates what science is and how it really works.
    • PhET Simulations: PhET Simulations from the University of Colorado provides dozens of fantastic simulations for physics, chemistry and biology. The website also includes a collection of teacher contributed activities, lab experiences, homework assignments and conceptual questions that can be used with the simulations.
    • EdHeads: Edheads is an online educational resource that provides science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.
    • Explore Learning Gizmos: Gizmos are interactive math and science simulations for grades 3-12. Over 400 Gizmos aligned to the latest standards help educators bring powerful new learning experiences to the classroom.

Social Studies Instruction

    • DocsTeach: The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives
    • Library of Congress: Digital Collections
    • Internet History Sourcebooks: The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use.
    • Checkology: The News Literacy Project's checkology® virtual classroom is an innovative space where students discover how to effectively navigate today's challenging information landscape by mastering the core skills and concepts of news literacy.
    • TimelineJS: TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.
    • Teaching History with Technology: Technology-rich lesson strategies & ideas from Rob Leo

ELA Instruction

    • Newsela: a data base of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Use Newsela to differentiate nonfiction reading.
    • Purdue OWL: The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.
    • CommonLit: CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12. Our resources are: Flexible; Research-Based; Aligned to the Common Core State Standards; Created by teachers, for teachers.