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"There are two areas where technology can optimize learning better than any other educational strategy. I'm not talking about iPads or laptops or apps. I mean how you deliver your message--done in such a way that more students are able to achieve their goals. .. The first is problem solving. If you want students to be critical thinkers, to take responsibility for their own learning and in doing so, excel--and you do--you must must MUST use technology to teach problem solving. More on that later. .. Today, we'll talk about differentiation. If you struggle to adapt your lessons to the multitude of learning styles in your classroom, struggle no more. Technology is like that friendly laugh that diffuses a tense situation, the tale wag from a rottweiler to tell you s/he's on your side. Tech will become your classroom's transformative tool--a magic wand that can adapt any inquiry to student needs. Take the cornerstone of literacy--the book report--as an example. When a teacher assigns this sort of compare/contract, who/what/when/where exercise, students thinks paragraphs of words and grammar struggles. Thanks to technology, that project is no longer a nightmare for everyone challenged by phrases and paragraphs. Now, students have options that transcend pencil on paper. Communicate the essential ideas with a comic tool like Zimmer Twins, an art tool like SumoPaint. How about an audio tool like Voki--or a movie maker like Animoto. The challenge for you as teacher is to provide those tech options and then encourage students to be risk-takers in using them to achieve the project goals. The challenge for students is to analyze what's available and select the tool that uses their learning style. .. You're probably thinking that before students can use these fancy tools, you have to learn all of them--and teach them. Where's that sort of time come from--and by the way, you aren't one of the 'techie' teachers. Do I have good news for you. The ideas below require very little prep

Really great ideas here for seamless differentiation using Tech.

Ideas for restructuring our PD days

I think this is definitely something we can use when we strive to make the most out of our PD days/sessions!

The Learning Network is something Larry Ferlazzo, a tech guru and popular blogger, puts together. He is an ELL teacher.

ELL Teacher Larry Ferlazzo has great tech and other suggestions for ELL teachers.

Wonderful site that teachers can use to search by grade or subject area for links to learn using the iPad.

This school has a fabulous search tool for linking learning across subject and grade levels. Can be very useful for when teachers are stuck and cannot seem to find ideas. Good for iPads integration, too.

Flubaroo with Google Forms = Time-saver--quicker grading for teachers!

Here is a visual (infographic) that teachers can use with students to help plan some lessons/uses for G. Drive with kids.

Skills all teachers and students should have when using an iPad

How to enable offline use of Google Docs (in Education)

I think this can be useful for all of us, including teachers, staff and students, at EBV.

The Learning Network offers many ways we can utilize the NYTimes for teaching and learning this school year. 

This particular page is dedicated to the iPads and apps.

Check out the new Apps of the week and many other resources for iPads and Apps!

Chromebooks advantages & disadvantages 

Two functional apps for student demonstration of learning and flipped classroom/LMS style.

This is my vision of how it could be done !!! Explain Everything is one of those cross-curricular, across grade level apps which visually captures student learning through audio and artistic representations/explanations. The platform is Schoology in this case, which I am up for debate on whether it packs a stronger punch than what I have used in the past, Edmodo.

Which one delivers the best as a LMS for flipped classrooms?

5 Free iPad apps for students to take notes