Teachers will be equipped to go beyond using an app merely because someone else has recommended it and fully examine the true learning potential. The integration of apps into education, may seem like a natural product of the times. However, successfully impacting students’ learning, requires a whole new level of teachers’ engagement and effort.

Move students beyond becoming ‘proficient’ in a subject to ‘mastering’ its intricacies. Explore making students’ learning needs the driving force behind classroom instruction. Identify effective tools and strategies, such as video, digital simulations, and computer games to personalize lessons.This approach empowers student ownership over their learning and promotes the classroom as a collaborative educational environment.

In this course, teachers go through the process of preparing to teach online while also being introduced to tools and resources that can be useful when teaching online. Classroom teachers can quickly transition to becoming effective online teachers.

Utilize Google Classroom as a tool for inclusive education, plan flexible lessons and curricula using unique Google Classroom features, and learn how to create Google Classroom content – including videos, quizzes, games, and more!

Most of what students do online happens away from school, and the part that spills into the classroom is the part a teacher sees. In this course, teachers learn how students connect, share, and spend their time online, how to recognize when a student is being harmed, and how to respond in line with the duties that come with their role. Lessons cover social media and content that disappears, photos and AI-altered images, messaging and scams, sextortion, AI chatbots, gaming, and digital footprints, along with AI and schoolwork, predators, grooming, cyberbullying, and a teacher’s reporting duties. Stories, interactive scenarios, and classroom activities give teachers tools to use with students and families.

Technology is part of every teaching day, in person, online, and hybrid, and the tools keep changing. This course gives teachers a working knowledge of the technology they use most, from the device on the desk to the platform that holds the class, with tutorials and tips that build skill and confidence with each one. Lessons cover computer and internet basics, classroom devices, spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation tools, cloud storage, interactive tools for quizzes, discussions, and design, flipped and hybrid models, learning management systems, video conferencing, and collaborative whiteboards. Along the way, teachers see where artificial intelligence now sits inside these tools and how to put it to work on their own routine tasks.

You have iPads in the classroom. Now, what do you do with them. This course will introduce you to the pedagogy of using iPads to improve student learning in your classroom.

Teachers integrate smartphones, tablets, iPads, Kindle and more into everyday classroom activities while achieving learning targets. In this course, teachers learn to create technology-based lesson plans, activities and assessments that incorporate mobile devices.

Transform teaching practice, and enhance students’ reading levels, by incorporating technology into classroom reading activities. This approach enables teachers to successfully assess available technology, employ it successfully, and help students read with higher accuracy and better comprehension.

Knowing how a tool works is the easy part. The harder question is what it is for, and that is the question this course asks about every technology that comes into a classroom. Teachers learn what the ISTE Standards for Educators expect, what conditions have to be in place for technology to support learning, and how to choose tools that serve the curriculum instead of competing with it. Lessons cover a tool set that now includes blogs, online meetings, podcasts, video, office tools, virtual field trips, and artificial intelligence, the skills students need to create, connect, communicate, collaborate, and think critically, and the digital literacies and ethical habits behind a healthy digital footprint.

Students retain information faster, grasp concepts more rapidly, and become more enthusiastic about learning when videos are used in the classroom. This course encourages teachers to use of videos already available online and learn to record, edit, create, embed and share videos. The course presents guidelines and practical tips on choosing the right videos to align with learning objectives.

Virtual field trips are an effective alternative to traditional field trips because of accessibility, ease and interactivity. They are cost-effective, safe to use and break down geographical and learning barriers. Virtual field trips work well for all types of classrooms. In this course, teacher discover innumerable tips and resources, can plan, create and customize virtual trips to cater to their students’ needs. Take classroom learning beyond the confines of the classroom.

Topics: Designing hybrid lesson plans, online and hybrid teaching strategies, shared rubrics, technology safety, online PLCs, multi-faceted assessments, and more.

Topics: Online and hybrid teaching strategies, implementing asynchronous and synchronous lessons, recording a teaching video, student engagement, online assessments, and more.