Description
In days past, employers were impressed by graduates who had impressive stores of knowledge. But as the Internet and search engines have leveled the playing field, students need to focus on another set of skills. Do you know the top skills employers will be seeking from your students? Andi McNair has made it easy to make meaningful use of technology to teach your gifted students marketable lifelong skills.
In this course, you will learn to:
- Focus on the skills employers want from grads
- Use technology in innovative ways
- Avoid common time-wasting uses of technology
- Use apps and websites that engage gifted minds
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.2.
Sandra – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of good ideas I can use in my class integrating technology!
JEANNINA – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –
It was a good course because of the websites that were listed. I found the websites for creativity, critical thinking, and reflections will be useful.
MARIVEL – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Good talk
Carlos – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of useful websites to incorporate into and out of the classroom.
Dalia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
5 STARS
Course was fast paced, yet extremely informative.
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course. There are so many useful technology ideas to use in the classroom.
Sean – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I think the teachers in my school can benefit from this training
Ashton – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Great resources that are applicable in many situations.
Araceli – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Thank you for this great training! I will use many of your ideas and websites.
Debra – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and the resources to back them up.
Jackie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Laura – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Provides many great websites for ed.
MICHAEL – INDIAN LAKE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Lots of cool and quickly applicable technological applications that you can use in your classroom!
Dora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and to the point
Katrina – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
SO many valuable and meaningful technology resources that have practical application for any/all teachers, easy to see at least one that could be of use for your particular situation
Amabeli – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
In today’s new world, we must enhanced students’ to use more technology in a meaningful way to incorporated the requirements of 21st Century.
Melissa – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Andi was so knowledgable about so many different tech tools. I can’t believe she is able to utilize all those different sites and apps. It was great to hear exactly how she uses it with her own students to get ideas. She sounds like amazing educator and I would love to start thinking outside the box like her; her energy, excitement and passion for teaching was so unique and motivating!
Josefina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great presentation!! So much information!
John – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –
Amazing
Roberta – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
good ideas and links to useful sites. thank you
Carolyn – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I love all the wonderful websites and apps for the classroom.
Amanda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
LOVE the technology presented here!
Leticia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very Interesting topics covered in this course.
Lisa – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful.
Sondra – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
It brought to my plate alot of new tools to research.
Amanda – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This course had a lot of good information. The speaker was entertaining and relatable.
Lilia – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Lori – STOCKDALE ISD (verified owner) –
Nicely organized with good tools to use in the classroom
Monica – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
this course was very meaningful and full of good technology website to use with my students this year.
Maria de Lourdes – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Yes, I found it very interesting.
Randie – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of good ideas to use in the classroom for any grade level and subject.
Carolina – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it
Bregitta – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It had a lot of great resources
Amy – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
So much great information! Will be digging through these tools for the next month! Love it!
Raymond – PALACIOS ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful and meaningful information.
WENDY – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Reminders and introduction of great tools to promote 4C learning
Stacy – Pilot (verified owner) –
Lots of good information!
William – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great, useful tools that can be implemented with a bit of research and practice.
Other useful info for a changing student profile.
Eric – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –
The course is a gold mine for tools that can be used to help students be successful not only in the classroom but also in life.
Tiffany – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
She gave great websites and apps to use in the classroom. She is very enthusiastic and it makes you excited to implement her ideas.
Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good survey of tech apps. good design of presentation. I teach middle school, so talking about elementary school situations does not help at all.
Tracy – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely helpful.
Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is very informative.
Steven – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was nice to find multiple resources that I can choose from.
Rachel – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
So many great idea!!!
Amie – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Lots of great tech ideas – glad they are available in the Resources section so I can review them later. She does VERY fast througjh them!
Tamara – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
there were a lot of great ideas. However, so apps const money. floors changes to bloxels, which you now have to pay
Michael Anne – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –
I liked her honesty
Jan – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It gave me new ideas on how to incorporate technology in my classroom.
Chyree – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great information!