Do you ever wonder what digital skills your students should have at their grade level? Do you wish there was an easy way to get them techy without stress and make online projects easier? No, this isn’t a infomercial pitch. Darren has created a digital skills scope and sequence that not only lists skills AND curriculum, it also contains a choice board with all of the videos, resources, and templates you will need to take your students from zero to sixty with their technology skills. In this session we’ll look at how to use these resources to make your class capable and competent in their digital environment.
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Join us for another amazing Conference. A great opportunity to interact with vendors, enhance your learning and network with colleagues! This year the Conference will be at Winsport, Calgary, Alberta.
See you there!
Join us for another amazing Conference. A great opportunity to interact with vendors, enhance your learning and network with colleagues! This year the Conference will be at Winsport, Calgary, Alberta.
See you there!
Join us for another amazing Conference. A great opportunity to interact with vendors, enhance your learning and network with colleagues! This year the Conference will be at Winsport, Calgary, Alberta.
See you there!
This year, Google for Education, Canada (Rachelle and Clay) is hosting informal Office Hours for Alberta school teams. These monthly calls are open forums, without an agenda, for both pedagogical and IT staff to ask questions about Google for Education tools. All are welcome! Please share with your networks! Details and sign-up here: goo.gle/MeetCanada
For the 2023-2024 school year, the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta and the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium are pleased to continue its partnership in providing professional learning for teachers interested in receiving graduate level course credit in the area of Educational Technology. Teachers who complete twenty-four hours of educational technology professional learning through the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium can leverage their ongoing professional learning -- learning that they would normally be undertaking -- toward the fulfillment of requirements of a University of Alberta graduate course, “Technology in Schools I.
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This in-person conference will be held at the Double Tree By Hilton West Edmonton - 16615 109 Avenue NW on October 26th and 27th.. This conference will build on last years' Administrative Assistant Conference in Red Deer.
This in-person conference will be held at the Double Tree By Hilton West Edmonton - 16615 109 Avenue NW on October 26th and 27th.. This conference will build on last years' Administrative Assistant Conference in Red Deer.
Teaching students in a classroom or online, or presenting to your school community? Learn how easily you can transform existing content into a presentation where everyone can participate and engage in authentic conversation via smartphones, Chromebooks or iPads. Lumio by SMART turns learning into visible co-constructed conversation, as you and your participants give and receive ongoing feedback about learning progress. Create connected experiences that keep everyone focused, motivated, and actively learning through their devices. Then step back and free up students to complete their work asynchronously with you only a click away, available to help at any time.
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Do you want to start coding with your students, but you’re not sure where to start? Are you curious where coding fits in with our new curriculum? Here’s your chance to jump in! Micro:bits are a fun and inexpensive microprocessor that you and your students can use to make interesting things happen in the real world with code. With these engaging activities, we can program a Micro:bit OR the virtual Micro:bit emulator online to discover that coding is easier and more fun than you knew it could be. From coding lights and speakers to creating a rock, paper, scissors game or driving a robot, Micro:bits are guaranteed to make coding fun and easy. Darren will show you the progression that will easily transform your students from beginners to coding wizards!
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In this session, join Darren and Janet to explore the potential of student-centered learning in a technology-rich environment today. Share specific strategies, including cutting-edge AI approaches, the value of a scope and sequence of skills, curricular implications (especially in Computer Science), digital literacy, student agency and more that teachers and students can do to leverage technology for teaching, learning, student engagement, and assessment in today's digitally enhanced inclusive classroom.
Leave this session with a clearer vision of how digital technologies can shape the cognitive infrastructure of our student-centered classroom communities today, so students can truly shape their learning journeys by integrating technology astutely and appropriately tomorrow.
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Looking for an easy and attractive way to keep your/your students' online resources bundled up according to topics, to share with students and/or parents, complete with text to speech support for those who struggle reading English? The free and reputable Wakelet to the rescue! Gather, organize and share resources, engage students in collaborative challenges, communicate with parents and littles, and more with Wakelet - an app that's so much more than social bookmarking!
No charge to register.
This year, Google for Education, Canada (Rachelle and Clay) is hosting informal Office Hours for Alberta school teams. These monthly calls are open forums, without an agenda, for both pedagogical and IT staff to ask questions about Google for Education tools. All are welcome! Please share with your networks! Details and sign-up here: goo.gle/MeetCanada
We teach our students how to use maps and memorize places, but have they arrived at geographic thinking? Help students go from finding their house online to understanding the world around them and becoming a global citizen. We’ll take a deep dive into the powerful and engaging geo tools available online such as Google Maps and MyMaps that will help your students get where they need to be in the world. From novel studies to social studies, these tools can help you make your students really understand how the geography around us shapes our lives.
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In this session, we’ll explore how knowing a little about Diffusion of Innovations, TPACK and SAMR frameworks can provide us with sensible ways of helping our local leaders determine how best to approach edtech professional learning:
We’ll look at a range of PL models explored in the research - from individual coaching and class visits to book studies and more, which can help us “lead change from within”, to support learners at various places on the Diffusion of Innovations scale within our schools and school districts.
We’ll next share and celebrate the additional affordances that social media provides today to connect us with our own customized professional learning network - others not only passionate about emerging edtech-related pedagogies and tools, but happy to share their resources on the fly with those of us who just reach out to them - and vice versa.
Leave this session with strategies, connections, resources and a mindset that will help you help others on their edtech integration journeys, as well as with some great social media pages that might just keep your (and your network’s) own edtech journeys humming along.
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In this Technology in Schools I Cohort Seminar Session, participants participate in a round-table conversation about cohort questions raised in the Student-Centered Learning and Professional Learning sessions held earlier in November. All are welcome to drop in and participate.
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Are you an elementary teacher wondering how to teach those new Computer Science outcomes? There are so many fun ways to incorporate coding and robotics into your science classes, as well as ways to make computational thinking an everyday habit for your students. Let us help you make computer science something to look forward to!
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Challenging students with various makerspace challenges can not only put their emerging problem-solving skills to good practice, but also engages them in fun projects that through your own “backwards design” of the project lets YOU check off several learning outcomes in a single cross-curricular classroom activity.
Join this session to participate in and explore the value of design thinking in classrooms today and to share and evaluate makerspace stories, strategies and tools that can provide a fun new dimension to your classroom projects.
Leave knowing how best to set up maker activities in your classroom, with a list in hand of makerspace items that are more worthwhile than others (and why), and links to where you can purchase kits for your school or classroom collections - as well as borrow--“try before you buy” them--from the ATA Library.
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Bring out your inner digital artist with this fun and engaging two-part session. We will create pieces of digital art using the free and easy Google tools that ALL of our students can access. With these skills, students at any grade level will be able to create a masterpiece AND develop their digital skills at the same time. Darren will also guide you through a full webpage of digital activities with video instructions that will take your students from basic digital colouring to creating fantastic vector art. Students will become creators with fantastic finished products that you’ll love to show off in the hallway. Part 2!
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