About six years ago, I requested a set of twenty-five iPads to use in my classroom with the intention of beginning to implement more technology into my daily instruction. I was using a platform called Edmodo at the time, and my class's frequent trips to the computer lab to complete research on the internet, collaborate with a class across the United States which was reading the same novel we were, and to take tests and quizzes online was proving to be a hassle. Back then, what I was doing was very new to my particular school, as we were not at the forefront of technological advancements as far as our equipment and professional development. However, I never would have dreamed then of the things I am now having my students do (and I am doing, too!) with the advent of Google Classroom and the Google Suite of tools for education. While the COVID-19 pandemic has definitely propelled my school into the future as far as our drive to purchase 1-1 technol...
A blog about teaching reading & writing--and doing it with a remote learning "spin"!