EdTech Team Graduate Credit Opportunities
The EdTech Team offers professional development designed for educators to develop their technology efficacy. They offer several self-paced, online options including a 6 credit teacher leader certificate cohort, 1 credit book studies, and 1 credit courses.
Teacher Leader Certificate Cohort:
EdTechTeam Teacher Leader Certificate is an online cohort that will inspire and empower teachers to make a difference in their classroom and change their learning environment. A Teacher Leader is committed to the ideals of Courageous Leadership, Empowerment, Student Agency, Inspiring Spaces, and an Engaged Community.
This 12-week cohort will embrace emerging technology and current research and best practices to take an organic look at how teachers can successfully guide students to optimum success and learning. Teachers will spend 2 weeks on each of the 6 courses: Global Collaboration and Community, Project Based Learning, Flipped Learning, Visual Literacy, Assessment and Redesigning the Learning Space.
For each course, participants will be required to spend 2 hours reading and reflecting. They will spend 4 hours completing individual activities that will build on the learning outcomes for the course and 3 hours collaborating with either cohort members or in a live hangout with experts on each topic. Each course will end with a final project that teachers will be able to take back to their classroom and immediately implement. Upon completion of the Cohort, teachers will receive an EdTechTeam Teacher Leader Certificate and 6 Graduate Credits.
The next cohort runs January 9th, 2017 - April 3rd, 2017. The cost is $1099.
Book Studies:
Take a closer look at the books that are being published with EdTechTeam Press and then join the authors in an online course to dig deeper into the content.
The next book study, The HyperDoc Handbook, runs from January 9th, 2017-Febuary 6th, 2017. The cost is $149.00 for the book study and an addtional $65.00 for the graduate credit.
These 1 credit courses focus on particular topics and include 15 hours of deep learning, application, and authenticity. Each course will connect you to global experts on each topic and build you a valuable and supportive learning community. Topics currently include: Google Drive and Docs, YouTube in the Classroom, The NEW Google Sites, Math and GSuite, Assistive Technology and GSuite, and more.
Desmos
Desmos is a free online graphing calculator that allows students to explore math concepts with dynamic graphing software.
Compared to traditional graphing calculators, students can build a more intuitive sense of how graphs of functions work. Using Desmos, students and teachers can graph functions, find derivatives, plot data and model it with equations, and create animations with graphs. More information about how to get started can be found at learn.desmos.com
In addition, Desmos has also created a classroom lesson activity builder which is found at teacher.desmos.com. Here, teachers can choose from a wide variety of pre-made lesson activities that have been produced by the Desmos teaching faculty as well as other users around the world. Teachers can also build their own lessons through the Activity Builder using their Google account information.
Compared to traditional graphing calculators, students can build a more intuitive sense of how graphs of functions work. Using Desmos, students and teachers can graph functions, find derivatives, plot data and model it with equations, and create animations with graphs. More information about how to get started can be found at learn.desmos.com
In addition, Desmos has also created a classroom lesson activity builder which is found at teacher.desmos.com. Here, teachers can choose from a wide variety of pre-made lesson activities that have been produced by the Desmos teaching faculty as well as other users around the world. Teachers can also build their own lessons through the Activity Builder using their Google account information.
Desmos activities run very similarly to a PearDeck or Nearpod activity, but with fully integrated Desmos graphing software. Using the teacher dashboard, teachers can efficiently moderate a classroom conversation about the learning that is taking place and highlight student work (anonymously if needed) for all to see. Teachers can also view the progress of each of their students as they work in order to provide personalized feedback. Teachers also have the ability to toggle between student/teacher paced or to pause the activity to direct the classroom conversation. The Desmos activity builder also features card sort activities as well as a graphing game called Marbleslides - each of these can be built from scratch in the activity builder template.
While Desmos and Activity Builder are clearly geared towards teachers of mathematics, the activity builder interface could be used in any content area. The graphing calculator also lends itself to other courses where data collection is used to make predictions.
Desmos tech tip written by Ryan Brown, Math teacher at North Campus
While Desmos and Activity Builder are clearly geared towards teachers of mathematics, the activity builder interface could be used in any content area. The graphing calculator also lends itself to other courses where data collection is used to make predictions.
Desmos tech tip written by Ryan Brown, Math teacher at North Campus
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