Project Context
School districts and policy makers have pushed schools toward tomorrow, without preparing them for today. Regardless of whether a district decides to spend thousands of dollars becoming a 1-1 school (ie. one device per one student), or save money by instituting a bring your own device policy (B.Y.O.D), the results are the same. Students and teachers have been thrown into a digital world without first receiving training on personal and professional use of technology.
Project Introduction
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Over the course of a semester, a list of applications and tools emerged. In order to define or explain these terms, I gathered information from the developers of the application or tool. I then supplemented this information with observations or practices observed from teachers. I then sorted these tools into a few broad categories: note taking applications, student engagement tools, a mind map tool, applications for creating content, and resources teachers can utilize to help create a classroom on the cloud.