Continuing the Tech Trend

Teaneck Public Schools April 21, 2022
7:30 PM

Workshop Objectives

• Expand on technical skills acquired during the pandemic.

• Connect to others using responsible online apps to reinforce learning at home.

• Use engaging technologies and e-resources to enhance classroom learning at home - including over the summer.

Reflect on My Learning

Selecting an App:

 What do I look for?	

• The content selected should reflect what your child needs to practice, or
what is part of their classroom curriculum.

• Not overly flashy design.

• Resource is affordable and compatible with home devices.

• Free of stereotypes and available in applicable languages.

Selecting an App (cont’d)

• Contains audio, visuals, and clear instructions to support struggling
learners.

• Trial and error learning with problem solving opportunities.

• Feedback that motivates and corrects

• Prompts to be creative and connect to the real world

• A difficulty level that adjusts based on performance

Tips for Supporting Learning at Home: Setting Ground Rules

• Establish media routines

• Set expectations that make sense

• Combine technology learning with real time interaction.

• Expand creativity

Tips for Supporting Learning at Home: Responsible Media Time

• One media-free meal per day
• Two screen-free hours before bed
• Employ only “healthy screen time” rather than specific screen time limits
• Watch out for distractors

Building Digital Literacy Skills for Early Readers

•	Balance with real-time interaction and human interaction when possible.
•	Introduce e-books with intention, and alongside paper books. •	Teach appropriate digital content moderate use or limit access. •	Increase use gradually to no more than two hours per day.
•	Use the 3 C’s: Child, Content, Context
•	Play with their children in the first few minutes a new app and learn; find out what engages them
•	Preserve time for child-directed play and human laps

Building Digital Literacy Skills for Middle and High School

•	Distinguishing between real and false or “fake news” and “deep fakes”
•	Evaluate author’s credentials •	Trace domain for:
commercial educational government
•	Check for page updates

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/medialiteracyforteensgr/ Common Sense Media: www.commonsensemedia.org Organization for Social Media Safety: https://www.ofsms.org/programs-services/
learningapps.com for active TEDx video micro-teaching Kidshealth.org: https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/social-media-smarts.html
ACT for Youth: http://actforyouth.net/adolescence/toolkit/teens.cfm iCivics “News Literacy”: https://www.icivics.org/curriculum/news-literacy

Meeting and Sharing Apps • Google meetings
• Zoom meetings

• Drive and other shared document applications

• Google Calendar and other shared calendar applications

Google Meet for virtual sessions

Google Drive

• Check your child’s work
• Make comments, give feedback, make suggestions
• Get access from account administrator (teacher)
• Practice with To Do lists, invitations, etc.

Google Calendar

• Check on your child’s school schedule
• Establish your own schedules with reminders

Reflect and React

Digital Badging

Social Media

• Facebook • Twitter
• Instagram

• Student blogs

• Class Pinterest accounts • Class or school websites • Badging

FREE educational game sites:
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/34761/10-free-online-educational-game-sites

Summer Learning

Learn ways to continue using technology to enhance learning during the summer

• https://www.understood.org/en/articles/12-summer-learning-apps-and-games-for-grade-
schoolers

• FREE apps from Common Sense Media: https://www.commonsense.org/education/article
s/12-free-learning-apps-and-websites-for-kids-at-home-this-summer

Stay Creative During the Summer!

Photo Scavenger Hunt!	Photoshop

Create your own Blog this summer to strengthen writing skills using:

Host a Zoom Book Club…

Strengthen vocabulary skills playing Words with Friends!

Reach for the Stars This Summer!

• NJSLA online testing will occur between April 25, 2022, through June 3, 2022. • Administered as indicated below:
NJSLA - April 25 through June 3 English-Language Arts - grades 3-9, Mathematics grades - grades 3-9 Science grades 5, 8 and 11
• No testing for grades 10 and 12
• As with all state testing, students who are permitted extra time or other accommodations as per their 504 or IEP plan will have access to those accommodations on the NJSLA assessments.

Prep for State Online Assessments (e.g. NJSLA)

• Practice timing • Keyboarding
• Simple functions: mousing or stylus, touchscreen functions, unlocking the screen, switching between programs, opening and closing windows, etc.
• Practice with device used for the assessment

Additional Resources:

• List of educational games: https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/free-websites-
and-apps-to-keep-kids-learning

• Family Digital Wellness Guide: https://digitalwellnesslab.org/parents/family-digital-wellness-
guide/

• Common Sense Education: https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/social-networks-for-students-and-teachers

• Digital Badging: http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2015/05/open-digital-badges.html

Questions…