An up-to-date guide for educators who want to get started with Google Classroom now Google Classroom allows you to put an entire semester's worth of classwork in one online hub. But you can do so much more with it by using this powerful platform mindfully to transform student experience, engagement, and success.Stepping Up to Google Classroom empowers educators to take the leap into the digital classroom with confidence and purpose. By guiding readers through fifty straightforward and accessible steps and offering a host of tips for customization, this book ensures that teachers with all levels of tech comfortability can make the most of Google Classroom's powerful tools. It's designed to help you go beyond a merely paperless approach to education and instead use technology to improve student engagement and learning.Google education experts Alice Keeler and Kimberly Mattina give you the tools you'll need to ensure that your first foray into blended learning is a successful one--for you and your students. By offering no-nonsense directions and a student-centered approach that optimizes impact, Stepping Up will help you dazzle your classes with digital savvy.This book provides a step-by-step guide for using Google Classroom to <ul> <li>Get new classes set up quickly</li> <li>Organize class information so everything is where students--and you--need it</li> <li>Integrate with other apps</li> <li>Use your time to better support your students</li> <li>Create a more student-centered classroom</li> <li>Employ digital tools for scoring low-critical-thinking work</li> <li>Encourage increased participation from students</li> <li>Move the focus from grading to productive, actionable, and interactive feedback</li> <li>Teach students to exercise agency as independent learners</li> <li>Prepare students to become good digital citizens</li> </ul>

Stepping Up to Google Classroom: 50 Steps for Beginners to Get Started

Computers & Technology

Keeler, Alice

Mattina, Kimberly

Software

Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated

How can Jamboard improve learning in your classroom? Jamboard is Google's amazing (and free!) tool for collaborative digital whiteboarding. Learners and educators can use it together to sketch out their thinking, share ideas, add images, and draw, all from the ease of their own devices. Most importantly, all of this can-and should-be done collaboratively in Jamboard. Its ability to enable students to learn together, whether they-or their teachers-are in person or remote, working at the same time or asynchronously, tremendously improves student engagement and learning. In this book, Alice Keeler and Kimberly Mattina have put together a comprehensive guide to using Jamboard in your classroom, covering everything from the basics of how to navigate the tool to lessons and activities you can use today to important pedagogical consider-ations to help you know when and how to use it. Each of the 90+ teaching ideas here comes with at least one sample Jam that you can use to help guide you and your students toward greater proficiency with Jamboard-and as the basis for your lessons.<ul><li>Supporting the 4Cs of education </li><li>Depth of knowledge and critical thinking skills</li><li>Mastering the basics</li><li>App smashing</li><li>Diving in deep with content</li><li>Remote learning </li><li>Take advantage of Jamboard's built-in Google Meet integration</li><li>How to go even further with the Jamboard Kiosk</li></ul>

Teaching with Google Jamboard: 50+ Ways to Use the Digital Whiteboarding Tool

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Stepping Up to Google Classroom: 50 Steps for Beginners to Get Started

Teaching with Google Jamboard: 50+ Ways to Use the Digital Whiteboarding Tool