2. POWERFUL TOOLS TO
SUPPORT TEACHERS
PROFESSIONAL
LEARNING TOOLKIT
GAMES FOR
LEARNING
CONNECTED
EDUCATORS
PROJECT
TWITTER
CHATS FOR
EDUCATOR
3. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TOOLKIT
• The toolkit provides
rubrics, checklist and
examples to assist district
teams as they develop,
refine and evaluate
professional learning plans
that align with their
capacity, learning goals
and standards of
professional learning.
4. GAMES FOR LEARNING
Video games are
important learning
tools that provide
immersive, interactive
and creative spaces for
students to learn and
explore in the 21st
century.
5. CONNECTED EDUCATORS PROJECT
The Connected Educators
Project is designed to
help educators leverage
online communities of
practice to connect
around improving teacher
and leader effectiveness
and enhancing student
learning.
6. TWITTER CHATS FOR EDUCATORS
Twitter chats is an
effective way to
connect with fellow
educators and
expand your
professional learning
community.
7. INSTRUCTIONAL USES OF TECHNOLOGY
THAT ENGAGE STUDENTS
INTERACTIVE
COLLABORATION
GATHERING FEEDBACK
EMBEDDING
QUESTIONS IN VIDEOS
ACTIVE
LEARNING
SOCIAL
LEARNING
EduCanon
EdPuzzle
Ed.ted.com
Clickers
Plickers
Twitter
Surveys/Polls
More advanced, education-specific tools
8. INTERACTVE COLLABORATION
This type of tool is
fun and engaging
and it support 21st
century skills like
collaboration,
communication
and creativity.
9. The 2014 Gates
Foundation report,
Teachers Know Best:
What Educators Want
from Digital
Instructional Tools,
indicates that the
teachers want tools
“supporting student
collaboration and
providing interactive
experiences”.
10. GATHERING FEEDBACK
The potential to
gather structured
feedback in moments
is a powerful aid to
instruction, and
thanks to
proliferation of
Internet enabled
devices, it’s never
been easier.
13. SURVEYMONKEY
It is a popular web
based survey tool
that provides a small
survey at no cost.
DOODLE AND POLLDADDY
These are two
alternatives with
more functionality
for free.
17. TWITTWER
It is a unique, fun way
to gather feedback
when students have
way to tweet. Create a
unique hashtag and
have students use in
their tweets, to create
a custom stream of
students tweets.
18. EMBEDDING QUESTIONS IN
VIDEOS
As Today’s teachers
leverage this fact by
using this video for
instructional purposes
more than ever, free
tools that enable
educators to embed
questions are powerful
aid.
19. EDUCANON
It is a tool to
embed rich,
dynamic questions
into online video
and track student
understanding.
20. EDPUZZLE
The easiest way to engage
your students with videos.
pick a video, add your magical
touch and track your
students' understanding. It
empowers teachers to make
any video your lesson. Crop a
video, explain it with your
own voice and embed quizzes
at any time.
22. ACTIVE LEARNING
It is a is a process
whereby students
engage in activities,
such as reading, writing,
discussion, or problem
solving that promote
analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation of class
content.
23. SOCIAL LEARNING
(Albert Bandura) posits
that learning is a cognitive
process that takes place in
asocial context and can occur
purely through observation
or direct instruction, even in
the absence of motor
reproduction or
direct reinforcement.