Promoting Student Engagement: Top 10 #Edtech Posts

Here are the top ten Promoting Student Engagement blog posts relating to the use of #Edtech. Following the top ten list with descriptions, you’ll find the posts sorted by topic (vision, leadership, and BYOT/1:1).

#1 What Educators Should Learn from the Harlem Shake

Let’s co-opt the power of creating digital stories for a global audience. As educators, let’s give students opportunities to create, not just consume, digital stories. Check out this fun post just to see preschoolers, teachers, and senior citizens doing the Harlem Shake.

#2 Top 4 Reasons for Superintendents & Principals to Send Shout Out Tweets

You don’t have time NOT to tweet. Tell people their work matters. Provide teachers great ideas. Provide inspiration. Build a shared vision.

#3 Four Policies to Support EdTech

Replace the #edtech lockdown mentality with a student driver approach. An open letter to School Board members.

#4 The Digital Learning Farm: A Call to Action

Alan November asks, “Who owns the learning?” Effective teaching and learning involves purpose-driven work, a shift of control, leveraging the motivation of student ownership, and enlisting technology.

#5 Avoiding Envy with BYOT

This post includes a humorous Best Buy commercial that illustrates why BYOT may be more appealing to some students than a 1:1 initiative.

#6 1 to the World, not 1:1

Let the rebranding begin. Here is why we should refer to 1:1 as 1 to the World!

#7 Using Technology to Transform Teaching & Learning

What are the design qualities that promote student engagement? These design qualities should drive our use of technology.

#8 4 Steps to Leaders Modeling Effective Use of Technology

How do you get other leaders in your organization to model the use of technology?

#9 Are You a Techno-Cheerleader?

Do you assume that the use of technology will yield automatic gains in skills and knowledge? Let’s not just bolt technology on top of current processes and procedures!