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3 Technology Tools to Enhance Your School Counseling Lessons
By Danielle Schultz It can be challenging to come up with engaging school counseling lessons that draw in students. One way to pique their interest and enhance engagement is to add a technology component to your lessons. Here are three … Continue reading
Class Project: Creating Video Book Reviews
By Tina Zureick and Craig Dunlap How would someone pick a good book if they could not read? For the past three years, Tina has been asking this question of her second graders at Yealey Elementary School in Florence, Kentucky. … Continue reading
Funding Technology in Your Classroom
By Eric Braun, coauthor of The Survival Guide for Money Smarts Educational technology (ed tech) can be a boon to classroom learning for myriad reasons. Tech can provide tools for production (like word processing, presentation, and blogging platforms), research (with … Continue reading
Teaching Friendship Skills through Video Modeling
By William T. Mulcahy, LPC, NCC, CEAP, author of the Zach Rules series When I asked a friend what tools teachers could give kids to help them build healthy friendships, she replied, “Have them watch Barney. You know, ‘I love … Continue reading
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Education Technology: Apps in the Elementary Classroom (Part 1)
Third in a series. Click to read “Apps in the Middle School Classroom” or “Highly Used Apps in High Schools“. Five years ago, most people did not expect to be carrying around a communication tool in their pocket that gave … Continue reading