Items for School Tech Leaders... Worth Knowing and Pondering

653 Students… These items showed up very recently in my In Box – Perusing these would be a good way for you to get yourself further up to speed on the state of our field…

In relation to our ongoing reflection on PD alternates to the now, impossibly impractical ‘Workshop Model’ of PD….

1)       Teaching Teachers to Put Tech Tools to Work Classroom https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2019/10/teaching-teachers-put-tech-tools-work

Classroom management and data analytics tools can help teachers in the classroom — if they understand how to apply them.

There’s a temptation in the world of educational technology to think that if only instructors had the right tools, all their teaching troubles would go away. But Kathleen Perdisatt knows better.

2) How to Talk EdTech with Parents: K-12 Educators Share Their Stories Monday, Oct. 28 @ 5 pm ET From - edWeb.net Register to attend live or receive the recording. (click here for information wiithoug registering, too) REGISTER Presented by Douglas Kiang, Computer Science Teacher; and Makisha Rogers, Instructional Technology Specialist K-5 Visit Success in a Digital World

3) Top reasons K-12 professional learning can work best through an LMS https://www.educationdive.com/spons/top-reasons-k-12-professional-learning-can-work-best-through-an-lms/565254/ 

Why should teachers and schools consider an LMS to support continuous learning programs?

And some miscellaneous items:

4) Group starts yearlong study of edtech

A 30-member steering committee leading the EdTech Genome Project will convene for the first time Oct. 30. The project, launched by the nonprofit Jefferson Education Exchange, includes a yearlong study to identify as many as 10 contextual variables that can affect the success or failure of education-technology implementation.

T.H.E. Journal (10/24)

WHAT??? Maybe some principal free days would be better?

5) Principal: Schedule tech-free days for students

A middle school that has a one-to-one Chromebook program in place also schedules some screen-free days, principal Matthew Howell writes. In this blog post, he shares how the approach helps to give students some balance regarding screen time and offer opportunities for positive, tech-free learning experiences.

Edutopia (10/9)