Students need to practice critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and working creatively
Technology is a great way to increase opportunities to better prepare students to enter real-world environments
There are two factors to consider when choosing technology for the classroom: your learning goals and your basic understanding of what each Google tool can do
You can use google to find more relevant and non-traditional texts to go along with your content
Practicing being safe and secure online with your students allows them to be a better citizen
It is important to quickly get yourself unstuck with google search, google help center, or google for education help forms
Join a Personal Learning Network (PLN) - a supportive network of people you can learn from.
Joining a local GEG allows you to use social networking for connecting and sharing ideas with each other
Local experts can help you and support you in so many ways
Cloud storage allows you at access any information you upload from any computer
Google workspace allows you to have a live document- one document that is being edited in real-time
Google workspace allows for huge collaboration
Google Forms is a great way to create assessment to test your students’ knowledge
Google drive can be accessed without internet
Gmail allows for multicultural communication
You can organize your Gmail inbox by creating filters
A Priority Inbox works best in a school setting because Gmail notices your complex email habits and places the conversations most pertinent to the productivity of your classroom front and center
Google Chat allows you to instantly message anyone around the world via text, or to hold a live video chat
You can create custom groups to share weekly information with parents, specific members of your specialized programs or committees, or even for each grade level you teach
Google calendar allows you to organize and share your schedule with people
You can create multiple calendars for different aspects of your life
Google Tasks allows you to create detailed to-do lists
Google Tasks and Google Keep are great tools to keep us organized, while also providing an option for greater collaboration
You can receive notifications for these things to help you remember what you need to do and when
Productive meetings happen when everyone knows what they need to prepare for, so attach a shared Google Doc for the meeting agenda right in the calendar event
During the meeting, you can record the minutes together on a shared Google Doc, take notes and capture any action items for follow-up
Make sure you let everyone get a chance to contribute
Google Meet allows you to have virtual meetings
You can have 100-250 people in the same video call
Google Classroom provides a platform for communicating with students, assigning, and collecting work, and providing learning resources
Teachers can send assignments, questions, and announcements to students, they can add co-teachers and moderate online discussions
In Classroom, students will receive notifications for new assignments and see information on upcoming due dates
The “Classwork" feature is built to organize your materials into themes by using the "Topic" feature previously launched in Classroom
Using Drive, students can easily move documents to a folder shared with their teacher, or create a document in that folder to begin with
Google tools can collect additional types of student data to be stored and analyzed. Such as, attendance, contact information, behavior reports, parent communication, and examples of the student work itself
Effective data analysis can detect weak areas of student growth that otherwise might not have been apparent
Spreadsheet vocab, formula format/sums, averaging numbers. Sorting numbers/texts/dates, and manipulating ranges are all features of Google Sheets
Bar Charts can be used to represent student growth and make valuable comparisons from past work
Pie charts provide an easy way to display the results from an entire class
If students can efficiently search online, they will develop essential inquiry and critical thinking skills
It is essential that we teach students to ‘search smart’
‘Search smart’ basics: choosing the right search terms, understanding search results, narrowing a search to get the best results
The ‘Rule of 3’: encourage all students to compare three sources of information before concluding on any given topic
Chrome is a web browser designed by Google for fast, streamlined, and secure Internet browsing
Google Slides is a slideshow application that allows multiple people to collaborate at the same time
Inserting images, infographics, and videos provide the opportunity for viewers to learn through visual and auditory methods - inspiring active thinking
The Chrome Web Store allows you to find appropriate resources efficiently will help you when preparing for class
Google Earth is a simple and powerful tool which presents information ranging from natural sciences to social sciences, history, art, and engineering in a geospatial context
Your Plan, Your Planet is a tool built to enhance awareness of environmental impact and offer concrete examples of simple, everyday lifestyle changes to improve sustainability at home
As teacher we want to have our student’s attention, it’s helpful to use multi-modal approaches and multimedia tools
Using video is a great way to captivate students
Share playlists with students to increase visibility and accessibility to the content you are teaching
YouTube even offers a feature that can help protect our young learners from accidentally viewing inappropriate content
Make sure you plan for collaborative group work that aligns with your learning goals and engages students in meaningful ways
Collaborative learning activities empower students, giving them a voice and ownership of their learning
Google Doc allows for live editing and collaboration, and automatically saves every change made to a document
Google Docs keeps a named version history of every change that is made to a document, and who they were made by
We can use Google Forms, Google Calendar, and Google Keep ensuring that the groups achieve their goals, and everyone has their chance to participate in group work
We need to teach kids how to be safe in the online world
It’s important that students learn to never give their password to anyone
Educate students on digital footprints
Dealing with cyberbullies and developing a sense of resilience are two things that can always be improved upon in our schools
Main topics to teach students when dealing with bullies: don’t respond, don’t retaliate, document it, block them online, report to an adult