Join us for an exciting summer opportunity to explore a wide variety of educational topics!
The EdTechTeacher Summer Institute offers over 15 workshops from which to choose – all of which will expand your knowledge and skills related to technology in teaching and learning.
“I loved the small, personalized class size. I also appreciated the time to just play with the different apps and create projects specific to our curriculum.”
Maria DeCicco
Needham Public Schools
ATTENDED BOSTON 2018
17 SUMMERS
OF LEARNING
“I was able to ask a lot of questions and got all my answers.”
Rajni Khanna
American Embassy School, New Delhi India
ATTENDED BOSTON 2018
WORKSHOPS
OFFERINGS
Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education: Fostering Engagement Through Immersive Experiences
Learn the why, what, and how behind the integration of AR and VR in any preK-12 classroom. Discover innovative ways to transform teaching and learning with pedagogical practices that consistently redefine students’ learning experiences. Immersive technology is taking education by storm. Learn how to take students on virtual reality field trips, manipulate 3D objects, augment the world around them, and more. In this workshop, participants explore first-hand the capabilities of AR and VR in the classroom and begin aligning those experiences with student standards of learning to increase the rigor, relevance, and engagement. Participants will learn how to create their own immersive experiences and help foster student creativity with immersive technology.
Coaching Teachers to Student Success & Learning
Today’s teachers are under immense pressure to “innovate” and “transform” their practice to meet the demands of the 21st century. However, they also need support in order to understand how they might augment their instruction, curriculum, and classroom environment. Whether you are a tech savvy teacher informally coaching colleagues, a formal tech coach, or even an administrator, you can play a critical role to provide that support. Come learn strategies for how you can be confidante & cheerleader, advocate & ally, researcher & detective….and more! Participants will learn new tools, work through scenarios, and develop strategies that they can take back to their schools to increase teacher and student success.
Design Thinking & 3D Printing: Creating Innovative Learning Environments
While we cannot predict what the future looks like, we do know that innovation and creativity are skills that our students need and Design Thinking has emerged as a proven framework for helping people develop a creative problem-solving mindset. The Design Thinking process first identifies a problem and then proposes and tests solutions, all with the needs of the end-user in mind. In this session, we will take a hands-on approach to understanding Design Thinking and how we can use its principles to create a learning environment that engages students, fosters curiosity, and encourages a collaborative approach to solving problems.
Differentiation of Instruction using Technology
Laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, and even smart phones, have the potential to support struggling learners and provide opportunities for enrichment to all learners. In this workshop, we will explore how various tools and apps can facilitate differentiation and personalization and create rich learning experiences that meet the needs of ALL students. Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to guide our exploration, we will examine how technology can be leveraged to both scaffold and augment student learning. In particular, we will focus on how technology might support reading, writing, and note-taking, as well as provide students with multimedia options and various choices for how they demonstrate their understanding. During this intensive, hands-on workshop, participants will have abundant time to explore sites, tools, apps, and strategies that can be applied to any device – and any classroom – in order to help students develop into master learners.
Digital Storytelling: Creating & Publishing Dynamic Digital Stories
Digital storytelling, in the broadest sense, is about weaving together narrative, imagery, voice and music into media rich presentations. Storytelling provides students with opportunities to construct narrative, express their ideas, and stretch their imaginations. Using a variety of tools, students of all ages can combine text, drawing, images, video, audio, and more to create and publish their own books, videos, and websites. In this hands-on workshop, we will explore a variety of ways that digital storytelling can be used across the curriculum. Participants will spend time creating, curating, and ultimately will publish their stories into a digital portfolio.
Engaging Students and Inspiring Creativity with G Suite & Interactive Web Tools
G Suite for Education and Google Chrome not only facilitate creative and collaborative learning opportunities for students but also provide amazing tools for curating and publishing student work. In this hands-on workshop, we will explore best practices for using Google Apps on laptops and Chromebooks. From innovative uses of the core Google tools, to creating multimedia with new Chrome apps and extensions, we will discover powerful and innovative ways to empower students to demonstrate and share their learning.
G-Suite: Supporting Diverse Learners in the Classroom
In the classroom of today, it can be difficult to design learning experiences that differentiate for learner variability and incorporate student choice. Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” This workshop will focus on how to use G Suite apps, extensions and add-ons to facilitate differentiation, and to personalize instruction through making information accessible to all learners.During this hands-on workshop, participants will explore Google tools to support executive functioning skills, scaffold student learning and accommodate for varied learning styles and academic levels. We will focus on how these tools can support reading, writing and note-taking while allowing students some voice and choice in how they demonstrate their understanding.
Hyperdocs
By moving beyond simply digitizing work and replacing paper with Google Apps for Education, the kind of work students can create and the method by which they explore ideas can move beyond linear text in a digital form. Attendees in the workshop will walk away with a creative approach to leveraging the two core Google Apps for Education tools (Docs and Slides) as well as concrete examples, digital templates, and a framework to begin the process of integrating these ideas into their classroom or school.
Modern Digital Citizenship and Civic Education
There are powerful ways to prepare students for the rights and duties of citizenship in a connected classroom! Energize Civic Education in your school by leveraging powerful technology, innovative pedagogy (such as Design Thinking and PBL) and emphasizing the “6 Modern Practices that Constitute High Quality Civic Learning” including: effective classroom instruction, the discussion of current and controversial topics, meaningful service learning, and powerful and immersive simulations of government processes. “Join us to explore the skills that students need to be educated and prepared to participate responsibly in the modern democratic process, and how can we construct Civic Education to effectively meet this need.”
Personalized Learning
Explore the rapidly emerging and evolving concept of personalized learning. Through an examination of current research and practical examples in action across the nation, participants will identify key elements of personalization and how these approaches can advance learning for all students. Key ideas explored will include: dynamic learner profiles, flexible pathways and progressions, learner agency, and the essential role of social-emotional learning (SEL) in student-centered environments. Then engage in hands-on simulations and design challenges that will help them effectively implement personalized learning in their classrooms and schools. Leave with a firm grasp of personalized learning along with practical takeaways that they can readily implement in their educational settings.
Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students explore real-world problems and challenges over an extended period of time, acquiring deeper knowledge and expertise. Applicable across grade-levels and content areas, PBL has seen a resurgence in interest. Project Based Learning, paired with the ever-growing technology access available in many educational settings, offer educators unique possibilities in unit design. Intentional use of technology within the essential design elements of PBL provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of concepts, refine 21st Century Skills, and publish to a Public Audience.
Teaching History with Technology
The Teaching History with Technology Workshop is an intensive hands-on environment for History and Social Studies educators. During this intensive workshop, participants will explore practical, dynamic, and creative ways to use technology in the classroom to enhance their curricula and provide students with unique opportunities to create original content to demonstrate their understanding. The workshop examines innovative ideas, effective techniques and thoughtful approaches for incorporating web tools, mobile devices, apps and emerging technologies into History and Social Studies curricula.
Technology Tools to Support ELs in the Classroom
Els are the fastest growing K-12 population in our country. English Learners enter our classrooms with a wide variety of specific and unique language acquisition needs. With so many tech tools and strategies available, how do we support our Els. while providing access to curriculum content while offering them voice and choice to demonstrate understanding? This workshop will focus on resources that accommodate the needs of our English Learners. We will explore EL supports in tools that are commonly used such as Google’s Suite, web resources and apps. Participants will have hands on exploration of how technology can offer ways to support student vocabulary acquisition, reading fluency, improve comprehension and access curriculum content.
While we cannot predict what the future looks like, we do know that innovation and creativity are skills that our students need and Design Thinking has emerged as a proven framework for helping people develop a creative problem identifying & problem solving mindset. Design Thinking facilitates the process of students first identifying a problem and then proposing and testing solutions, all with the needs of the end-user in mind. In this summer workshop session, we will take a hands-on approach to understanding Design Thinking and how we can use its principles to create a learning environment that engages students, fosters curiosity, and encourages a collaborative approach to solving problems. To further creativity and innovation, we will explore the crossroads of Design Thinking with making and creating with 3D printers. As schools are making 3D printers available to students for creation of real world, tangible models of their 2D prototypes and designs, educators are placed in a challenging position to develop an effective and meaningful vision for integrating this emerging technology into their classroom. When the process of Design Thinking is combined with 3D Printing, educators and classrooms now have the potential to create truly innovative learning environments. Over the course of the workshop, we will explore the process of Design Thinking, how to meaningfully structure a classroom with Design Thinking and we will build capacity for the use of 3D printers in an educational setting. Through the framework of Design Thinking we will explore the meaningful and intentional use of 3D printing. Through existing use cases, projects and classroom ideas, workshop attendees will leave the workshop with increased technical skill and practical application of 3D printing in the classroom via Design Thinking.
Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students explore real-world problems and challenges over an extended period of time, acquiring deeper knowledge and expertise. Applicable across grade-levels and content areas, PBL has seen a resurgence in interest. Project Based Learning, paired with the ever-growing technology access available in many educational settings, offer educators unique possibilities in unit design. Intentional use of technology within the essential design elements of PBL provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of concepts, refine 21st Century Skills, and publish to a Public Audience.
In this intensive workshop, participants will learn the essential design elements of PBL, meaningful ways to integrate technology as an integral component in student engagement and motivation, and instructional strategies to support student learning. With PBL, we will identify and align student learning goals, construct driving questions to support sustained inquiry, and maximize authenticity, in addition to offering student choice and voice through the use of technology. Participants will also explore examples of PBL, identify and create assessment frameworks for PBL, and reimagine current curriculum in order to implement Project Based Learning in their classroom.
Augmented and Virtual Reality: Fostering Innovation and Engagement through Immersive Experiences. Educators will spend the day learning the why, what, and how behind the integration of AR and VR in any preK-12 classroom. Discover innovative ways to transform teaching and learning with pedagogical practices that consistently redefine students’ learning experiences. Immersive technology is taking education by storm. Learn how to take students on virtual reality field trips, manipulate 3D objects, augment the world around them, and more. In this workshop, participants explore first-hand the capabilities of AR and VR in the classroom and begin aligning those experiences with student standards of learning to increase the rigor, relevance, and engagement. Participants will learn how to create their own immersive experiences and help foster student creativity with immersive technology.
In the classroom of today, it can be difficult to design learning experiences that differentiate for learner variability and incorporate student choice. Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” This workshop will focus on how to use G Suite apps, extensions and add-ons to facilitate differentiation, and to personalize instruction through making information accessible to all learners. During this hands-on workshop, participants will explore Google tools to support executive functioning skills, scaffold student learning and accommodate for varied learning styles and academic levels. We will focus on how these tools can support reading, writing and note-taking while allowing students some voice and choice in how they demonstrate their understanding.
A traditional perspective and approach towards the core Google Apps for Education tools of Google Docs and Google Slides is to have students create content by writing papers and creating presentations. However, there is immense potential in both of these tools to create HyperDocs: rich, inquiry-focused and student-centric working environments by simply changing the perspective on the role of the tool. By moving beyond simply digitizing work and replacing paper with Google Apps for Education, the kind of work students can create and the method by which they explore ideas can move beyond linear text in a digital form. This session will explore the potential to transform Google Docs into a dynamic student work environment through the combination of text, images, video, linked collaborative work spaces and digital organization. Further, we will explore the capacity to transform Google Slides into a student digital workspace and notebooks that includes pre-populated instructional content, independent and collaborative workspaces that provide structure for students while exploring content within their Digital Notebook. Attendees in the workshop will walk away with a creative approach to leveraging the two core Google Apps for Education tools (Docs and Slides) as well as concrete examples, digital templates, and a framework to begin the process of integrating these ideas into their classroom or school.
Els are the fastest growing K-12 population in our country. English Learners enter our classrooms with a wide variety of specific and unique language acquisition needs. With so many tech tools and strategies available, how do we support our Els. while providing access to curriculum content while offering them voice and choice to demonstrate understanding?
Many online tools have built in features to support differentiated instruction for a variety of learners including our Els. This workshop will focus on resources that accommodate the needs of our English Learners. We will explore EL supports in tools that are commonly used such as Google’s Suite, web resources and apps. Participants will have hands on exploration of how technology can offer ways to support student vocabulary acquisition, reading fluency, improve comprehension and access curriculum content.
Participants must have a Google Account for this workshop. Chromebooks and iPads Elementary
G Suite for Education and Google Chrome not only facilitate creative and collaborative learning opportunities for students but also provide amazing tools for curating and publishing student work. In this hands-on workshop, we will explore best practices for using Google Apps on laptops and Chromebooks. From innovative uses of the core Google tools, to creating multimedia with new Chrome apps and extensions, we will discover powerful and innovative ways to empower students to demonstrate and share their learning.
There are powerful ways to prepare students for the rights and duties of citizenship in a connected classroom! Energize Civic Education in your school by leveraging powerful technology, innovative pedagogy (such as Design Thinking and PBL) and emphasizing the “6 Modern Practices that Constitute High Quality Civic Learning” including: effective classroom instruction, the discussion of current and controversial topics, meaningful service learning, and powerful and immersive simulations of government processes. "Join us to explore the skills that students need to be educated and prepared to participate responsibly in the modern democratic process, and how can we construct Civic Education to effectively meet this need."
In the classroom of today, it can be difficult to design learning experiences that differentiate for learner variability and incorporate student choice. Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” This workshop will focus on how to use G Suite apps, extensions and add-ons to facilitate differentiation, and to personalize instruction through making information accessible to all learners. During this hands-on workshop, participants will explore Google tools to support executive functioning skills, scaffold student learning and accommodate for varied learning styles and academic levels. We will focus on how these tools can support reading, writing and note-taking while allowing students some voice and choice in how they demonstrate their understanding.
Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students explore real-world problems and challenges over an extended period of time, acquiring deeper knowledge and expertise. Applicable across grade-levels and content areas, PBL has seen a resurgence in interest. Project Based Learning, paired with the ever-growing technology access available in many educational settings, offer educators unique possibilities in unit design. Intentional use of technology within the essential design elements of PBL provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of concepts, refine 21st Century Skills, and publish to a Public Audience.
In this intensive workshop, participants will learn the essential design elements of PBL, meaningful ways to integrate technology as an integral component in student engagement and motivation, and instructional strategies to support student learning. With PBL, we will identify and align student learning goals, construct driving questions to support sustained inquiry, and maximize authenticity, in addition to offering student choice and voice through the use of technology. Participants will also explore examples of PBL, identify and create assessment frameworks for PBL, and reimagine current curriculum in order to implement Project Based Learning in their classroom.
Augmented and Virtual Reality: Fostering Innovation and Engagement through Immersive Experiences. Educators will spend the day learning the why, what, and how behind the integration of AR and VR in any preK-12 classroom. Discover innovative ways to transform teaching and learning with pedagogical practices that consistently redefine students’ learning experiences. Immersive technology is taking education by storm. Learn how to take students on virtual reality field trips, manipulate 3D objects, augment the world around them, and more. In this workshop, participants explore first-hand the capabilities of AR and VR in the classroom and begin aligning those experiences with student standards of learning to increase the rigor, relevance, and engagement. Participants will learn how to create their own immersive experiences and help foster student creativity with immersive technology.
Digital storytelling, in the broadest sense, is about weaving together narrative, imagery, voice and music into media rich presentations. Storytelling provides students with opportunities to construct narrative, express their ideas, and stretch their imaginations. Using a variety of tools, students of all ages can combine text, drawing, images, video, audio, and more to create and publish their own books, videos, and websites. In this hands-on workshop, we will explore a variety of ways that digital storytelling can be used across the curriculum. Participants will spend time creating, curating, and ultimately will publish their stories into a digital portfolio.
Laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, and even smart phones, have the potential to support struggling learners and provide opportunities for enrichment to all learners. In this workshop, we will explore how various tools and apps can facilitate differentiation and personalization and create rich learning experiences that meet the needs of ALL students. Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to guide our exploration, we will examine how technology can be leveraged to both scaffold and augment student learning. In particular, we will focus on how technology might support reading, writing, and note-taking, as well as provide students with multimedia options and various choices for how they demonstrate their understanding. During this intensive, hands-on workshop, participants will have abundant time to explore sites, tools, apps, and strategies that can be applied to any device - and any classroom - in order to help students develop into master learners.
There are powerful ways to prepare students for the rights and duties of citizenship in a connected classroom! Energize Civic Education in your school by leveraging powerful technology, innovative pedagogy (such as Design Thinking and PBL) and emphasizing the “6 Modern Practices that Constitute High Quality Civic Learning” including: effective classroom instruction, the discussion of current and controversial topics, meaningful service learning, and powerful and immersive simulations of government processes. "Join us to explore the skills that students need to be educated and prepared to participate responsibly in the modern democratic process, and how can we construct Civic Education to effectively meet this need."
Today's teachers are under immense pressure to "innovate" and "transform" their practice to meet the demands of the 21st century. However, they also need support in order to understand how they might augment their instruction, curriculum, and classroom environment. Whether you are a tech savvy teacher informally coaching colleagues, a formal tech coach, or even an administrator, you can play a critical role to provide that support. Come learn strategies for how you can be confidante & cheerleader, advocate & ally, researcher & detective....and more! Participants will learn new tools, work through scenarios, and develop strategies that they can take back to their schools to increase teacher and student success.
Technology and interactive media are here to stay. Young learners live in this world and they are growing up at ease with digital devices that are rapidly becoming the tools of their culture at home, school, and in their community. As teachers we are faced with how to effectively integrate technology tools, activities, and strategies into our everyday classroom instruction. This workshop will explore how the tools students have can meet the needs of the learners.
While we cannot predict what the future looks like, we do know that innovation and creativity are skills that our students need and Design Thinking has emerged as a proven framework for helping people develop a creative problem identifying & problem solving mindset. Design Thinking facilitates the process of students first identifying a problem and then proposing and testing solutions, all with the needs of the end-user in mind. In this summer workshop session, we will take a hands-on approach to understanding Design Thinking and how we can use its principles to create a learning environment that engages students, fosters curiosity, and encourages a collaborative approach to solving problems. To further creativity and innovation, we will explore the crossroads of Design Thinking with making and creating with 3D printers. As schools are making 3D printers available to students for creation of real world, tangible models of their 2D prototypes and designs, educators are placed in a challenging position to develop an effective and meaningful vision for integrating this emerging technology into their classroom. When the process of Design Thinking is combined with 3D Printing, educators and classrooms now have the potential to create truly innovative learning environments. Over the course of the workshop, we will explore the process of Design Thinking, how to meaningfully structure a classroom with Design Thinking and we will build capacity for the use of 3D printers in an educational setting. Through the framework of Design Thinking we will explore the meaningful and intentional use of 3D printing. Through existing use cases, projects and classroom ideas, workshop attendees will leave the workshop with increased technical skill and practical application of 3D printing in the classroom via Design Thinking.
In the classroom of today, it can be difficult to design learning experiences that differentiate for learner variability and incorporate student choice. Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” This workshop will focus on how to use G Suite apps, extensions and add-ons to facilitate differentiation, and to personalize instruction through making information accessible to all learners. During this hands-on workshop, participants will explore Google tools to support executive functioning skills, scaffold student learning and accommodate for varied learning styles and academic levels. We will focus on how these tools can support reading, writing and note-taking while allowing students some voice and choice in how they demonstrate their understanding.
G Suite for Education and Google Chrome not only facilitate creative and collaborative learning opportunities for students but also provide amazing tools for curating and publishing student work. In this hands-on workshop, we will explore best practices for using Google Apps on laptops and Chromebooks. From innovative uses of the core Google tools, to creating multimedia with new Chrome apps and extensions, we will discover powerful and innovative ways to empower students to demonstrate and share their learning.
Explore the rapidly emerging and evolving concept of personalized learning. Through an examination of current research and practical examples in action across the nation, participants will identify key elements of personalization and how these approaches can advance learning for all students. Key ideas explored will include: dynamic learner profiles, flexible pathways and progressions, learner agency, and the essential role of social-emotional learning (SEL) in student-centered environments. Then engage in hands-on simulations and design challenges that will help them effectively implement personalized learning in their classrooms and schools. Leave with a firm grasp of personalized learning along with practical takeaways that they can readily implement in their educational settings.
