Tag: technology
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Streamlining Coaching Workflows with NotebookLM and Google Calendar
Instructional coaches often find themselves juggling a massive amount of data, from professional development schedules to individual teacher meeting notes. When you are supporting upwards of 20 different school sites, the logistical challenge of staying organized can easily overshadow the actual coaching work. It is important to note that this same workflow can work effectively…
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Bringing Lessons to Life with the New Gemini Audio Feature in Google Classroom
Google Classroom continues to evolve by providing tools that bridge the gap between static content and interactive learning. A recent update introduces a feature within the Gemini tab that allows teachers to transform written content into dynamic audio lessons. These lessons are designed to sound like a natural conversation between a teacher and a student,…
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Quick Scheduling Magic: Using Gemini and Google Calendar
Administrators, support staff, and instructional coaches often juggle many different schedules and calendars. The process of manually transferring dates and events from a document or handwritten note into a digital or shared school calendar can be tedious and time-consuming. Fortunately, technology offers a simple and fast solution to this common bottleneck. You can leverage Gemini’s…
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Making Thinking Visible: High-Impact Math Strategies with EdTech
Educators constantly seek practical, powerful ways to reach every learner. I recently co-taught math lesson that focused on adding fractions with unlike denominators. This lesson provides a model for achieving this through thoughtful tech integration. By leveraging a tool called Snorkl, a 5th-grade classroom moved beyond simple right or wrong answers, turning a standard math…
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Tech That Helps Deepen Understanding: Beyond the Worksheet with Snorkl
The goal of technology integration in the classroom is not simply to replace old tools but to deepen student learning and engagement. When it comes to ELA grammar skills, like proper comma usage, teachers often rely on traditional worksheets. But what if a tool could take those practice questions and elevate them from a simple…
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Quick Video Creation: Engaging Students Without Being a Tech Guru
Integrating new technology into your teaching practice can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially when you are balancing countless other responsibilities. However, simple tools are emerging that can instantly elevate student engagement without requiring you to become a technology expert overnight. I want to share a fantastic example of practical EdTech integration that yielded immediate, positive results…
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Student Success with Snorkl in Middle School Math
Integrating new technology into your classroom should always aim to amplify student learning and agency. In middle school math, the tool Snorkl is proving to be a highly effective way to do just that, creating engaging practice opportunities and fostering deeper student understanding across different grade levels. In an eighth-grade math class, students recently used…
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Snorkl and Feedback in Math for the Win….Again!
I recently had the opportunity to facilitate and co-teach another demo lesson in a math class, this time with 6th grade students, that highlighted the power of immediate feedback in the classroom. We focused on the math concept of multiplying multi-digit numbers with decimals. The specific challenge for the day was solving 14.72 multiplied by…
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Beyond the Answer: Fostering Math Conversations with Snorkl
Finding the right technology, AI especially, to support math instruction can be challenging. We want tools that do more than just check an answer. We want them to help students think, reason, and articulate their process. I recently saw this in action during a demo lesson I co-taught in a 7th grade math class using…
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A Smarter Way to Build Your AI Classroom Assistants
Many educators are exploring custom AI tools, like Gems in Gemini, Spaces in SchoolAI, Rooms in MagicSchool, or custom GPTs. These tools promise to create amazing, tailored resources for our students. But getting them to work just right often comes down to one big challenge: writing the detailed training prompt. It can be difficult to…
