Description
Traveling at a rate of a tool per minute, this fast-paced and informative session will help bring your technology toolbox up to speed by categorizing and reviewing resources designed to promote creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and productivity in you and your gifted students.
In this course you will learn:
- Numerous ways to find online resources that promote creativity and creative thinking
- How to promote collaboration among students through the use of technology
- Ways in which critical thinking can be embedded in all content areas
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Presenter Bio
Brian Housand, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. He completed his doctoral work at the University of Connecticut with an emphasis in both gifted education and instructional technology. Dr. Housand is the current chair of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Computers and Technology network, and he writes the “Untangling Technology” column for Teaching for High Potential. Currently, he is exploring ways in which technology can enhance the learning environment and striving to define what it means to be creatively productive in a digital age.
Hillary – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Gives a variety of apps that are useful in the classroom.
Jorge – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great video but needs to be updated on some of these resources.
MARIVEL – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Very good sources!
Amy – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Great intro to the technology applications and apps for the classroom.
delia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the options on the websites presented.
Brett – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Great course. Gives different categories to use technology from information gathering, to presenting, to searching the internet with grade level appropriate readings.
Cassie – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –
So much information! There were many resources I can’t wait to explore on my own.
Melissa – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
I found it to be very useful. I was able to get some good website ideas to use as a social studies/science teacher.
Alicia E. – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Bethany – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
*****- This was a really great course. I had heard of some of the applications, but I still learned a lot! I do think that it could be updated a bit, as by now, everyone uses Google Drive and I don’t know of anyone using a Live Binder app. But overall, this was really great and I liked how the trainer talked about his own usage or experience with these apps.