Category: edtech
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AI, ChatGPT, and the Future of Teaching History
Over the last few months, I’ve had a lot of discussions with different constituents in education about the use of AI in our history classrooms. These constituents include my colleagues, Teaching History Her Way Podcast guests, students, parents, administrators, the list goes on. I’ve concluded that I’m certain that AI isn’t a “problem” to solve.…
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Bitmoji Classroom Tutorial
Check out my “Quick Bitmoji Tutorial” on my YouTube Channel “Teaching History Her Way”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duelvsgzc8s&t=2s I swear I wasn’t going to jump on the Bitmoji Classroom train… but I did. We could all use a little fun these days, and you can’t deny that these Bitmoji Classrooms are cute. At the…
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At-Home Learning Agenda
At-home learning agendas: Be up front with expectations for virtual & hybrid learning at the beginning to help create classroom community & trust.
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Distance Learning Hack: Breakout groups
If you teach like me, you love it when students are engaged. I found that when students began learning in Google Meet, many of them suddenly got shy! I’m not sure what it is about the screen (though I’m sure there are plenty of psychology and sociology articles that could tell me if I looked),…
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Getting to Know You- Digitally!
The return to school in September 2020 will be unique to say the least. For most of us in the United States, the way school will look in the fall is unpredictable. Will we be returning full-time? Will we be doing a hybrid version of school where some students are online and others are in…
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Flipgrid & a Martin Luther King, Jr. Lesson
A few weeks ago, thanks to the Twitter universe, I stumbled upon an educational tool called “Flipgrid” (@flipgrid – sidenote, their team looks like a hoot based upon their Twitter cover photo.) Flipgrid’s website touts their product as: “Flipgrid is where your students go to share ideas and learn together. It’s where students amplify and…
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My Top Nine Teacher Must-Haves
I am just finishing up my spring break and I have a wealth of ideas to bring back to my classroom based on my trip to Colonial Williamsburg in March. However, besides traveling I spent a fair amount of time in Target and as I traipsed the aisles I thought about how my classroom is…
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iPad: Let Students Show What They Know!
When I was one of the teachers chosen to be a part of our school’s iPad pilot group I was over-the-top excited. I couldn’t wait to get this revolutionary device into my classroom to enhance my students’ learning and, of course, to have some of the most awesome lesson plans in the building. I dreamed…
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Thomas Jefferson Podcast
Yesterday I gave my students a survey on, well, me as a teacher. It was by far the scariest thing I’ve done as a teacher so far, but it turned out okay. One of the questions that I asked was how I could improve the class. One thing that students asked for was more group…