10 BEST Tips Using with Alexa in the Classroom to Engage Students to Listen & Learn

One of the clever ways teachers are getting their students’ attention is by integrating the Alexa™ Artificial Intelligence (AI) inside of their instruction, student learning, assessment, and even classroom management and classroom routines. Teachers have become experts overnight using Alexa™ AI in ways that make it feel like they have a virtual teaching assistant inside the classroom right along with them, helping with instructions, lesson parts, classroom management, motivation, and incentives. Read to find 10 BEST Quick Tips to begin integrating the Alexa AI in your classroom to engage students!

Student Engagement, Teacher Challenges, technologyMelanie WiscountFebruary 11, 2022AI, student engagement, edtechComment

Why EdTech PD is a Necessary Part of Teaching after the Pandemic?

If you were teaching BEFORE March 2020, you can easily compare what you knew about and did with EdTech with what you know about EdTech now. Whew! What a tailspin!

With all these changes, teachers should make EdTech professional development part of their career plan. EdTech PD is so important for teachers to participate and succeed in since, I do believe, our delivery, design, media, and scope of our instruction, student learning, and assessment HAS changed forever moving forward.

EdTech Expertise, Student Engagement, Teacher ChallengesMelanie WiscountNovember 2, 2021edtech, PD, Professional Development, PandemicComment

The YouTube Instructional Videos Whoas and Wins

At the beginning of the year, it never fails. The first question teachers ask me or email me is how to get around the school district’s content filter to access YouTube instructional videos for instruction and student learning. Having access to all websites without a school district’s content filter in place is one of the things we miss as teachers.

Media, Teacher ChallengesMelanie WiscountOctober 3, 2021edtech, videos, content filter, instructional strategiesComment

New Challenges Teachers Face in Pandemic Times & How Should We Respond to Those Challenges

On April 14, 2021, India Today, published a validating post for most teachers today, Challenges for teachers which never existed before (1). The article discusses the challenges teachers are experiencing as they provide education during Pandemic times and transitions.

With little notice back in the first quarter of 2020, teachers felt the weight of getting instruction and learning to move seamlessly inside a digital environment. Most teachers did not feel the confidence or have the competence in technology to respond with few trials and errors in the process and sometimes, in the midst of high expectations, from administrators, parents, and students.

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