ISTE 2019 Philadelphia Main Takeaways

ISTE 2019 Philadelphia Conference Takeaways

ISTE.org: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Click on this document to read about the process of Design Thinking, Inclusive Pedagogy, and fun tech tools your students WILL enjoy! ISTE 2019 Philadelphia Main Takeaways

 

Some highlights: 

Sketchnoting

Meeting Students Where They Are

It is not an artistic process but a VISUAL THINKING process.

The Science of Drawing and Memory: Want students to remember something? Ask them to draw it.

Use it for 

• Note-taking during a lecture
• Fun version of Cornell notes
• Diagnostic tool - formative assessment 
• Thesis statements development
• Plans - mapping out plans
• Problem-solving process
• Design thinking process
• Embed interactive elements

Glogster - interactive Posters

Infographic Piktocharts - interactive Posters

Creative Student Voice: Visual Design and Learning Presentation - resource

http://kheiladunkerly.com/sketchnote-resources/

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Not Your Grandma’s English Class 

Newsela - adjust the lexile to differentiate in the classroom (5 levels, news articles)

Mercury Reader google chrome extension: makes reading more accessible for students

Removes distractions from the news site

Easy to print an article

ANNOUNCIFY google chrome extension - will read a text out loud

Students can hear the words (proper pronunciation)

Appeals to different sensory skills

No Red Ink to personalized practice for

• grammar
• Punctuation
• Sentence structure
•  And more

Grammarly google chrome extension to help students check 

• Typos
• Punctuation
• Sentence structure
• Tone
• Voice etc

Students copy their paragraph/text in Grammarly and check all the above

Tweetgen: generates twitter-like images

Use them for exit tickets at the end of the class: students sum up what they learned in class

Students copy the image and add it to the “Exit Tickets” Discussion board forum on Blackboard

FLIPGRID: perfect for Vlogging, video recording, chat-thread for students’ intros and more

Emoji Keyboard: google chrome extension

why not? Type your message using emojis

Google docs - 

Explore button for Google search in the document, citation

Voice typing (differentiation of skills) in the document give students feedback this way - turn the suggesting mode on to leave comments this way

Students record their ideas this way as well

Screencastify: Google chrome extension

Record tutorials for students

Record your verbal feedback for students

Students read each other’s paragraph and record themselves reading it and provide verbal feedback to each other

Free 10 minute videos with lots of functions

Saved to student’s G drive
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UtdGyhCbNmgHMrTRCHOf4_mkcaKiR8hiPA8wEdy5HLA/edit?usp=sharing

Check out this QR code in this beautiful app : https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1200318119

Ditch That Textbook

Graphic organizer templates

Promote Critical Thinking and Metacognition Using 3 Free Digital Tools!

https://sites.google.com/cjusd.net/teachingwiththefliptasticfour/3-digital-tools-to-promote-critical-thinking-and-metacognition

Check out this QR code in this beautiful app : https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1200318119