This is entirely based on my experience working in India, at Mercedes-Benz International School (now called Mahindra International School) as the Tech Integrator for 4 years. This article focuses on best practices for whole-school EdTech Coaches when it comes to starting with technology integration. The ISTE Standards were my key elements as they guided me … Continue reading A story of leading technology integration
Category: Innovation
PD that makes us thrive! My thoughts about #ISTE20 Live
You are thinking of attending #ISTE20 Live but not quite sure? I am sharing with you my experience and some research findings about how this conference is not like any other, it over delivers in so many aspects because it’s designed to make us thrive! Key Pointers: The conditions for intrinsically motivating PD is when … Continue reading PD that makes us thrive! My thoughts about #ISTE20 Live
Call for action to all school leaders
Have you heard of the Mastery Transcript Consortium? If you are an educator, a parent or a student, you need to check it out! If you are a school leaders, you need to act. Join MTC now or risk to be running a school that is obsolete in the next few months. We are in … Continue reading Call for action to all school leaders
Some strategies for effective teaching and learning
Student agency and teacher’s responsiveness and adaptability are probably some of the most important components of an effective and inclusive classroom. In order to observe this effectiveness and modeling personalized learning with teachers, I am in favour of the cognitive coaching approach where the coachee and the coach first meet to determine what the goal … Continue reading Some strategies for effective teaching and learning
Strategies for helping teachers to engage learners and increase learning retention
For me, the most effective way to support educators to engage learners and increase learning retention is Cognitive Coaching. The mission of Cognitive Coaching is to produce self-directed persons. With the skills of coaching patterns, building rapport, listening and inquiring to explore or specify thinking, we are able to clarify thoughts and go deeper into … Continue reading Strategies for helping teachers to engage learners and increase learning retention
My experience with CBE
My experience in personalizing learning through the use of Competency Based Education (CBE) revolves around knowing my student’s learner profile (strengths, interests, aspirations, needs, IEP if any, and any relevant standardized test scores), being flexible with their learning pace (some learners are engaged in completely different tasks within the same class), and collecting learning evidence … Continue reading My experience with CBE
Journaling
I have been quite impressed at how much we can get from the ‘discipline’ of journaling. Journaling allows us to dive deep into ourselves. We think about ourselves, our learning, we reflect and we become more aware of things we want to accomplish, things that are important to us and how we might get there. … Continue reading Journaling
Women in Tech
This pdf contains names and photos of a inspiring women in tech! Women in Tech
Paper electronics resources
Jie Qi (Chibitronics) had share many resources with participants to her ISTE18 session. I thought that might be useful to share it back (I know she is ok with that!): PAPER ELECTRONICS RESOURCES LIST CHIBITRONICS: http://chibitronics.com/ Video tutorials: https://chibitronics.com/how-to/ Full Circuit Sticker Sketchbook download: http://bunniefoo.com/chibi/sketchbook-en-v1.pdf Simple card template: https://chibitronics.com/chibi_simple_template/ LOVE TO CODE: Love to … Continue reading Paper electronics resources
Computational Thinking in Language Acquisition
I have created this lesson plan on computational thinking in Language Acquisition as part of Google’s Computational Thinking Course. Computational Thinking with language