Digital Educator Kit
This kit addresses leadership and teacher development issues to extend learning time through the use of technology. The following courses are included:
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Teaching, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age
Presented by Meg Ormiston
In this course, teachers and administrators learn to engage and educate the millennial learner using still images, video and audio clips, assorted technological soft- and hardware, and Web 2.0 collaborative tools to augment instruction and assessment. Aided by energetic panel discussions, interviews, and screen capture sessions, educators will investigate new projects and resources to replace textbook-driven instruction and to motivate and edify their "powered up" 21st century students. Learn more.
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Digital Learning: Empowering Teachers for the 21st Century
Presented by Ferdi Serim
School leaders face the immediate challenges of raising student achievement while also preparing students for success in a digital age. In this course, educators learn about the visible thinking process which provides a practical pathway for developing 21st century skills and simultaneously strengthening student core subject-area learning. Educators also learn to implement research-based, evidence-based practice to strengthen and assess the ISTE NETS-Standards.
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Teaching Reading to the Struggling Reader with Technology
Presented by Ted Hasselbring & Margaret Bausch
Too many students are entering middle and high schools with such deficits in literacy skills that they are unable to participate in grade-level learning. In this course, research on how the human brain is restructured during the process of learning to read is presented. The course then shows how this research can be applied to better use technology to enhance literacy instruction for all readers, especially struggling ones.
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Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape
Presented by Ian Jukes
Because of digital bombardment and the emergence of the new digital landscape, "digital natives" process information, interact, and communicate in fundamentally different ways than any previous generations. In this course, Ian Jukes introduces neuroscientific and psychological research that explains how the use of technology, including frequent interruptions and shifts in attention, impacts the functions of the brain.
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Authentic Innovation in the 21st Century Classroom
Presented by Cheryl Lemke
In this course, educators learn from classroom footage and lecture how to use technologically advanced tools that extend students’ thinking by serving as a means to explore ideas, research questions, test hypotheses, compose thoughts, and come to conclusions. Educators will learn to teach their students to use these tools as vehicles for exploring rigorous academic concepts in the world around them, helping their students become genuine innovators who will thrive in the 21st century culture of collaboration.
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Making and Using Digital Video for Engaging Learning
Presented by Rushton Hurley
Video can provide highly engaging access to knowledge—particularly when students are the videographers. This course is designed to help students consider the various tools and approaches one can take with video production, focusing on the use of free tools. By the end of the course, educators will have created at least two videos of sufficient quality to meet the standards of Next Vista for Learning, a site with a free collection of videos made by and for teachers and students.
An added bonus for teachers - the ability to receive graduate credit from Adams State College (additional university fees apply) for each course. Districts can also approve courses for recertification.
Request more information about the Digital Educator Kit or call (800)728-0032.