PASD LTR for Staff

Many people ask, how do you keep up to date with everything that is going on? Technology is always changing. Well, my answer is always quite long. I feel passionately about technology and WANT to keep up to date, it's not something that one can just hear about and wait until you know EVERYTHING about it before using it in the classroom, learn enough to keep students safe and jump right in. If you wait until you have mastered it,  you will be outdated, often students if they are engaged will want to discover how it all works and be willing to share with their peers. One thing that I do to stay up to date is follow many different blogs, when I attend a conference I will often hear of new bloggers or things to follow. One of these blogs is Global Digital Citizen Foundation. Often blogs (even like this one) allow you subscribe, because let's be honest who has time to keep checking blogs and while I know there are blog aggregates out there, you still need to VISIT the website. In ...

Rather than bombarding you with email after email or forwarding you a newsletter that  you may not have time to read, I will send out monthly highlights of things that I thought were noteworthy. In Issue V, 2017 Google for Education highlighted the new Science Journal with a brief article: Science Journal on Android and iOS Let your class explore the world like scientists with the Science Journal app. Students can measure real time data and record their observations in a digital notebook. The redesigned app is  now available on iOS and Android  with over  20 new activities  from educational partners. What does this mean for you?  Well, if you teach science this tool is amazing! While it does have an app, many of the lessons can be used right in front of your students! There are over 20 activities that walk students through the Scientific Process. What about the App? So, I downloaded the app on my phone. The look and feel of it is similar to Google...