Empowering Learners Choice Boar

Empowering Learners using Technology

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Learning Goals

Students set learning goals, develop strategies for leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process

Beginning/Simple

Create a simple padlet where students post their goal for the lesson or unit, they then post their reflection in another column of the padlet

What is new in Padlet

Intermediate

Have students create a vision board or goal board for your class, unit, standard, or year. Have them use one of the following to create their board: Canva or Adobe Express

Canva video

Adobe Express

Advanced/Complex

Have students create a portfolio where they track their progress for the entire year. Use one of the following to create a digital portfolio: Google sites or Adobe Express

Google Sites

Adobe Portfolio

Customizing Learning Environments

Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.

Beginning/Simple

Teach students how to use Canvas calendar, to do, etc. to help them manage their learning environment and schedule their time.

Student Canvas Calendar

Canvas Calendar

Intermediate

Have students extend their learning environment and take a virtual field trip.

Virtual Field Trip Links

Advanced/Complex

Have students explore google experiments and interact with the experiments. A possibility to have students propose an experiment/ submit an experiment

Google Experiments links

Feedback to improve practice

Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Beginning/Simple

Have your students use peer review or canvas discussions for feedback. Encourage students to seek feedback.

Canvas Peer Reviews

Discussion Boards

Intermediate &Advanced

Create a space in School Ai where students can get immediate feedback from in the Ai Space.

School AI Spaces

Student use of spaces

Space Prompt Suggestions

Technology Fundamentals

Students understand fundamental concepts of how technology works, demonstrate the ability to choose and use current technologies effectively, and are adept at thoughtfully exploring emerging technologies.

Beginning/Simple

Teach students how to use technology in your classroom. This could be a set of procedure posters that you refer to whenever you use chromebooks or it could be specific lessons or parts of your lessons where you show students how to navigate canvas for your course or other tech tools you will be using. Take a moment to create some plans to go over your tech fundamentals with your students. Make any signs, posters, or visuals you will need for students.

Intermediate

Students (and teachers) are navigating a new world of AI. Plan a lesson using the following resources (and/or others you find) to help students better understand the expectations of using AI in your classroom.

Newsletter with AI guides

Videos

Making a digital portfolio in Adobe express

How to create a School AI Space.

Discovery Ed

We are teachers

Edutopia

Using Discussion Boards for students to give each other feedback

Basics of google sites

Using Google Sites for an eportfolio

Google Experiments Videos

Google Expriments

What is new in padlet

Ideas of how you and your students can use canvas calendar.

Getting students on a space

Tips for creating a good AI prompt for spaces

Tips for using canvas for beginners.

Student View/ how to teach students to use calendar

Video to show you what you can use in Adobe Express.

Video showing how to use peer review in canvas

Click here to see canvas help on peer reviews