Category: Content Area Focus

Content Tech Ideas for Technology Use in the Classroom In an ongoing review of the book Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, we will look at the strategy of nonlinguistic representation. A part of the introduction to this chapter grabbed my attention, so I’m going to take a slightly different approach to discussing this […]

Content Tech Ideas for Technology Use in the Classroom  In our ongoing look at the book, Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, the next planning question is, “Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning?” This question obviously has the most strategies since this is where most learning takes place. Cues, questions and […]

Content Tech Ideas for Technology Use in the Classroom In the ongoing review of Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, the next strategy is providing recognition. Recognition is the most enjoyable part of learning, as it is the way we get to show off what we know and are able to do. Of the […]

Content Tech Ideas for Technology Use in the Classroom Continuing our exploration of Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, the next global question addressed is, “Which strategies will provide evidence of student learning?” The first strategy for this question is providing feedback. “…feedback is ‘the most powerful single innovation that enhances achievement.’” (p.41) This […]

Content Tech Ideas for Technology Tools in the Classroom Our video streaming service, Discovery Education Streaming, has a wide array of media available to support every content area. One way to view available media is by browsing by New York State standard. After logging into your DE Streaming account, scroll down on the left side […]