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.
Marcela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great course
Elizabeth – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I like how there were many options for different types of learning.
Ann – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very good to keep up with what is going on in the tech app world.
Lea-Ann – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about the many tech tools presented in this session. Technology is so vast and hard to keep up with at times. I had no idea there was so much out there that I’m missing. This session opened my eyes to some of the many possibilities out there.
Jennifer – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
5- this was amazing list of resources that I know can use in my classroom.
Leslie – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great class…some tools I already knew about….but some others that I didn’t.
Olga – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Many resources
Ann – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This was a suoer cool way to learn about a lot of new tools that are out there to enhance learning digitally.
Shawnta – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
It had some good ideas.
Rosa – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course was very useful due to the different interactive tools that it provided.