Ed Tech Tools
LEARN's Ed Tech Tools page provides teachers the opportunity to pave their personal learning pathways and leverage the potential for mastering digital age skills, or digital fluency, embodied in the ISTE Standards and Saskatchewan’s Technology in Education Framework.
Disclaimer: LEARN does not specifically endorse one resource over another. Rather, they are presented to provide a glimpse of the resources that are available when addressing Educational Technology. Before using these resources in the classroom, educators should consider how the tool will enhance teaching practice and assist students in achieving curricular outcomes.
Ed Tech Tools by Title
Tools By Title
Ed Tech Tools by Category
Career and Citizenship Fluency
Career and Citizenship Fluency is utilizing the guiding principles of leadership, ethics, altruistic service, environmental stewardship, global citizenship, digital citizenship, and personal responsibility within your work and conduct (Crockett, Jukes, and Churches, 2011) .
Compile A Digital E-Portfolio For Professional Development
Use and Provide Students With Task Management Tools To Organize Work And Plan Learning
Understand Issues Related To Copyright And Fair Dealing Of Online Materials
Use Digital Tools For Time Management Purposes
Collaborative and connected fluency
Collaborative and Connected Fluency is using a variety of digital media and environments to interact, collaborate and work with multiple audiences, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Learners move beyond communication to become active online learners – they learn with and from the people met in collaborative environments and how to mine social networks for information (ISTE).
Use Content Curation To Share Resources With And Between Learners
Use Social Networking Sites To Connect With Colleagues & Grow Professionally
Utilize Tools For Collaborative Project Work
Integrate Collaborative Tools For Text Construction And Editing
Creative and Innovative Fluency
Creative and Innovative Fluency is the demonstration of creative thinking, construction of new knowledge, and development of innovative products and processes though digital means in order to:
- Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
- Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
- Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
- Identify trends and forecast possibilities.
- Enable constructive social action (ISTE).
Create And Edit Digital Audio and Video
Manipulate Digital Images For Classroom Use
Use Visual Representations to Convey Messages and Data
Create Innovative Presentations
Information fluency
Information Fluency is the ability to unconsciously and intuitively interpret information in all forms and formats in order to extract the essential knowledge, authenticate it, and perceive its meaning and significance (Crockett, Jukes, and Churches, 2011).
Conduct An Effective Search Query With The Minimum Time Possible
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Databases
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Craft A Research Paper Using Digital Tools
Media Fluency
Media fluency is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of forms. Being media literate involves the ability to look analytically at any communication to interpret the real message, and to evaluate the efficacy of the chosen medium. Secondly, it involves creating original communications by aligning the message and audience though the most appropriate and effective medium (Crockett, Jukes, and Churches, 2011).
Use Note Taking Tools To Share Content and Capture Ideas
Annotate Web Pages And Highlight Parts Of Text To Share With Peers
Create and Deliver Asynchronous Screen Captures and Casting Videos
Remove Barriers to Reading and Understanding Digital Texts
solution fluency
Solution Fluency is the ability to define a problem, creatively generate appropriate solutions, delivering the solution, and then evaluating the process and the outcome (Crocket, Jukes, and Churches, 2011).
Learners move beyond using the Internet for just knowledge acquisition and begin publishing their own content to present creative solutions and to reflect upon their ideas and understanding.
Learners move beyond using the Internet for just knowledge acquisition and begin publishing their own content to present creative solutions and to reflect upon their ideas and understanding.
