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Now What Do I Do? | Easing the Stress for Teachers and Parents

MECA 2019

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We’re all in this together...

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School in the 20th Century

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School in the 21st Century

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What will we learn today?

  • How technology can help students and their parents better engage with instructional level content.
  • How appropriate technology can improve academic attitude and altitude.

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What will we learn today?

  • How online applications and tools can support learning at home and at school.

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What will we DO today?

  • Recorded speaker notes.
  • Create screen casts and notes during a parent session.

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Google Advanced Search

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Technology: Help or Hindrance?

  • Mobile devices and applications
  • Computer games, videos, and other online content
  • More screen options both at home at school
  • Cyber safety, cyber education, cyber bullying

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

  • Browser applications vs mobile applications
  • Browser extensions vs plugins
  • Let technology do what it does best: showing and telling
  • Allows children with different learning styles to see and hear text differently
  • Spend time on keyboarding skills! FREE

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

  • Use screen readers and audiobooks - try the public library!
  • Amazon Kindle and iPad have built in text readers.
  • Chrome browser and apps and extensions can read and write text.
  • Websites and browser plug in extensions can provide “writer assist” so thoughts can get “put on paper” without the frustration of paper!

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

  • Chrome browser Extensions and Apps: How do they work and what are they?
    • Grammarly
    • TextHelp Toolkit (Read & Write, Fluency Tutor)
    • Don Johnson (CoWriter, Snap & Read)
    • SpeakIt

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

  • Chrome browser Extensions and Apps: How do they work and what are they?
    • Voice Note
    • Lucid Chart
    • Ginger
    • Mercury Reader

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

  • Google Docs Add Ons:How do they work and what are they?
    • TextHelp Study Skills
    • Mind Meister
    • Verity Spell

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

  • Don’t forget handwriting!
    • Cursive Practice (app)
    • Cursive Writing (app)

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How can it help and support reading and writing at home?

  • Operating system accessibility settings
  • Windows and Office tools
  • iOs and Android
  • MacOS

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Basic Accessibility on Every Device

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Basic Accessibility on Every Device

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How can it help students stay organized and focused?

  • Browser applications vs mobile applications
  • Let technology do what it does best: telling us where to be and when to be there!
  • Technology is EXCELLENT at helping with memorization!

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How can it help students stay organized and focused?

  • Allows children with organizational challenges to get and stay organized and ease anxiety and frustration.
  • All devices come with clocks and timers!
  • All devices come with calendars!
  • All devices come with voice�recorders!

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How can it help students stay organized and focused?

  • Evernote
  • Remember the Milk
  • Quizlet
  • Studyblue
  • Stay On Task (Android)
  • 30/30 (iOs)
  • Student Agenda (Android)
  • Class Time Table (iOs)

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How can it help and support math at home?

  • Browser applications vs mobile applications
  • Let technology do what it does best: calculation, explanation, and repetition!
  • Allows children with different learning styles to see and hear differently

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How can it help and support math at home?

  • Browser applications vs mobile applications
  • Let technology do what it does best: calculation, explanation, and repetition!
  • Allows children with different learning styles to see and hear differently

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Help Parents Make Good Choices

  • 1:1 vs school only
  • Phones and mobile devices
  • Common Sense Media

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When the only tool you have is a hammer...

...every problem looks like a nail.

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Find a way to aggregate parent resources…

How do you share with parents?

How do others share with parents?

How often do you share with parents?

What age are your students?

How do you communicate with them?

How many clicks for parents to find information?

Just because something is old doesn’t make it useless…

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Find a way to aggregate parent resources…

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Thank you for coming!

Erin Mason | Jackson Public Schools

Director of Instructional Technology eclark@jackson.k12.ms.us

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Easing the Stress | Free Tools and Tips for Children and Parents

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