Jewish Schools 2.0:
Technology in the Jewish Classroom
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Who am IWho am I?
Josh Fixler
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@Fixler

Who are you?
Who are you?
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Your Goals
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Goals Explore possibilities for the
use of technology in Jewish
classrooms.
Discuss potential
opportunities and risks
associated with these
technologies
Identify free technologies
available for teachers to use
Case study (lessons learned
and best practices)
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How are you already
using technology?
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Why use technology in
the Jewish classroom?
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Technology speaks
to our students
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Opportunities:
• Increase
conversation
• Reach students
where they are
• Make assignments
easily accessible
• Appeal to different
learning modalities
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What is social media
What is
Social Media?
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Free social
media
opportunities
Blogs YouTube
Faceboo Twitter
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Security is a
top concern!
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Security is a
top concern!
It is also an
opportunity
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Building a class website

What might your
class site contain?
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Take advantage of the web’s resources
• Google Sites
• Blogger
• Wordpress
• Flickr
• Weebly

http://misterfixler.blogspot.com/2009/05/limmud.html

Let’s go
check it
out
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Questions
Comments
Concerns
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The Talmud
and Technology
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