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.
Ronald – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
This course was great, it gave a lot in sight on the tech tools that can be use in the classroom.
Louis – GALENA PARK ISD (verified owner) –
Most of the “tools” offered here were either out-of-date, no longer active, charged a fee, were only for iPhones, or were commonly known to most people.
Whitney – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course provided me with many resources that are available to myself and students that I did not already know were available.
John – EAST CLINTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Lots of interesting teaching tools.
Donna – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative about the different types of websites and technology to use in the classroom.
Kurt – FORT RECOVERY LOCAL (verified owner) –
It is a solid course. Even if you only get 1 good idea from this course, it is worth it.
Joel – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think the presenter’s style was pleasant, but many of the tools were either for younger students or kind of outdated.
Whitney – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great course to learn what tools are out there that you can use in your classroom.
Justin – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This gave me a lot of tools to help in class
Kristina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely great technology course. Covers a lot of the basics used.