How Quickly Can You Eat a Pringle and Other Technology Tools with a Purpose

Technology use should not occur for the sake of technology.  Instead, it should facilitate learning, adding to the richness of the content or deepening a skill set.  See the great examples of how technology has enhanced learning so far this school year!

Google Read and Write highlights sentences and reads back to kids so they can proofread more accurately.  Just add head phones and you have a great tool to help kids revise and edit their work.

BYOD:  Use it to look up latitude and longitude for an experiment.

In the above lesson, students use a compass app in BYOD to learn about seconds, minutes and miles.

Good cart vs. Bad cart:  We all prefer the good!  By taking good care of our equipment, technology-based lessons can be successful.

Using BYOD to time a science experiment-how quickly can you eat a Pringle?

Online tools:  this geography quiz helps students master their geography skills.

Poll Everywhere:  Like Socrative and Google Forms, this tool gives you quick feedback on student knowledge.  It's great for a warm-up or an exit slip.

Using "Find" to find those "dead words" in your writing.