This weekend, I had the opportunity to Attend Monica Burns' webinar about how to utilize technology in the classroom and nurture a tech savvy classroom. Monica first talked about honoring student curiosity and using their interests to sort of guide your teaching. She recommended using the Padlet app to facilitate this. It is incredibly interactive and easy for both the teachers and the students to share ideas. Monica also talked about creating a backchannel, which is a discussion board of sorts. I really liked this idea because classroom discussions can be a little stressful and anxiety inducing for students always wondering who is going to be called on or being to nervous to speak in front of the whole class. One more thing that she mentioned was using apps like iMovie for the students to crate their own videos and share content in a way that makes sense to them.
