We’re halfway through the year, and by now, our students are hopefully comfortable using their iPads or Chromebooks. But let’s be honest, sometimes that comfort can lead to complacency (and maybe a few cracked screens!). It’s the perfect time for a mid-year refresh, focusing specifically on device care and digital citizenship. A little preventative maintenance […]
Category: iPads
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Exciting Seesaw Updates for 2024-2025: Enhancing Learning for Students!
Exciting Updates from Seesaw: Fall 2024 As educators, we constantly seek tools to enhance our teaching practices and foster student engagement. Seesaw has recently rolled out some exciting updates that will enhance learning and offer some amazing tools to differentiate content and give insights to your student’s learning. As a reminder, all K-5 MPS teachers […]
Winter Wonder!
Winter in Minnesota. We love it? We hate it? We love to hate it? However one feels about winter, this winter isn’t bringing quite the winter Minnesota historically experiences. In case you and/or your students are missing winter, today’s post explores three fun ways, books, virtual tours, and interactives, to bring back the snow. ❄️ […]
Empowering Multilingual Classrooms: Tech Tools and Resources
Hey there! 🎉 As we wrap up 2023, we’re throwing a virtual high-five to all you rockstar educators. We’re excited about all the fantastic work in tech integration happening in MPS classrooms, and we’re thrilled to share some of our latest adventures! On December 8th, the MPS Technology Integration Team had the privilege of hanging […]
Google Arts & Culture: Bringing the World of Art to a Classroom Near You
The first draft for this post was: “Google Arts & Culture. It is amazing. Go there. You’ll lose yourself in learning and fun.” While that is true, I thought a little more context might be helpful. 🙂 This fall our team has been collaborating with many teachers and sites in support of students who do […]
Looking for an Avatar?
Starting a new school year gives students the opportunity to start fresh and express themselves anew. With that in mind, a digital avatar, seal, or icon can be a great way for students to share their identity and represent themselves when they share their digital work with their classmates, families, school, or the world. Publishing […]
The Hour of Code is Coming!
Welcome back, MPS! I’m so excited, I’ve been busy thinking about how I’m going to decorate my space for Computer Science Week, December 5-11. I love this week because it is a great opportunity for teachers that may not normally do anything with computer science in their subject areas to help students make powerful connections […]
Happy Digital Citizenship Week!
Hi everybody! We are so excited to be celebrating Digital Citizenship Week with you! The internet can be such a great place when we are all being good citizens on it. In fact, one of our amazing Library/Media Specialists is thinking about just that in this week’s featured letter… Hi Mx. K – Thank you […]
Educator Spotlight: Using iPads in Kindergarten
This week we are launching a new monthly feature on the Tech Diaries blog called “Educator Spotlight.” Each month, a different MPS staff member will be featured on the blog highlighting how they are using Educational Technology with their students. We look forward to hearing from many MPS educators from around the district and sharing […]
Building Writing Skills with Technology Tools!
June is finally here! Hopefully everyone had a restful long weekend to gear up for these last few weeks in the classroom. This week an MPS Elementary teacher asked our Tech Integration Specialists how to support writing using technology; let’s see what they have to say! Dear MPS Tech Diaries- What technology tools can I […]