May 21, 2023 , ,

Trends in Ed Tech

Hey, everyone!

Today I am going to be talking about one of the biggest trends in Edech, according to the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) - project-based learning (PBL). PBL allows educators to distance themselves from a "canned curriculum" that is difficult to accommodate diverse learners but still increases students' depth of knowledge (DOK). It allows students to take charge of their own learning and to dig deeper into topics in a way teachers are unable to do strictly with reading and writing. Classrooms can easily fall into a teacher-centered environment, but PBL allows students to take a topic or skill and empowers them to choose how they will learn it and demonstrate their knowledge. 

After looking further into PBL, I decided to look into some tools that can be used to enhance it. One tool that I chose to focus on was Padlet. Now, I have used Padlet in the past but only at a surface level. For instance, I often used Padlet just as a way to answer questions or share out answers with peers. I felt that I was tech-savvy because my students could play with colors, fonts, images, and .gifs. However, after exploring it further, it really is a wonderful tool that can be used for PBL. See my walkthrough of some of the features of Padlet below. 


Using Padlet, students are able to publish their projects or even create them. A student can create a radio play using their audio recorder, walk their class through how to code an application using the screen recorder, or they can use the video recorder to make a stop-motion video. The options are endless as long as some imagination and exploration are used. 

If you would like to look into Padlet or project-based learning further, please check out some of the following links. I look forward to our next adventure in investigating EdTech.


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