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.
Maria E. – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Useful technology course.
Christopher – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Very good
Thelma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This is a basic course for the most known apps out there.
Brian – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Not all were new to me, but with 60 tools presented, there were still many new ones and quite a few that I will definitely implement into my practice.
anell – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This was a simple and candid presentation of tech tools.
Shelsea – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Raquel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course introduced me to so many great educator tech tools that I can’t wait to try out with my students. My students were raised in technology and it is only fitting that it should be tied into their education.
Samantha – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner) –
The resources were helpful to integrate into a classroom.
Josette – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
All the resources available