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Beyond the Genius Bar: Cultivating Leadership With a Student Led Tech Team | EdSurge News

Byryan July 21, 2016July 21, 2016

You’ve probably heard of the student-led “Genius Bar”, which is generally a team of student leaders that provide technical support for the technology devices and programs in their schools. What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? I couldn’t agree more. Busch’s student tech teams have four sub-committees: the “Newcast Directors,” the “iPad Consultants,” the “Makerspace Mentors,” and the “Cyber Squad.” But what if we took the opportunity to develop young, skilled learners

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Being able to effectively use a student tech team also requires a school culture where teachers will accept from students. I know that sounds bad, but I’ve seen teachers who would not work with students in a support capacity. Luckily, this was several years ago, but I believe the teachers didn’t want to appear like they didn’t know everything.

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Wasting our technology surplus – Seth’s Blog

Byryan June 1, 2016June 1, 2016

When someone handed you a calculator for the first time, it meant that long division was never going to be required of you ever again. A huge savings in time, a decrease in the cognitive load of decision making. Now what? You can use that surplus to play video games and hang out. Or you…

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Creating useful PDFs from websites

Byryan August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

There are times when you will want to share a website to your students as a PDF. It’s a good way to make sure they are all looking at the same information. Once they have a PDF, they can mark it up and add their own notes to the page. However, getting a clean PDF…

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A meme, creating Jeopardy games, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week

Byryan February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

https://eduk8.me/2021/02/ill-have-you-know-eduk8meme/ https://eduk8.me/2021/02/create-your-own-jeopardy-games-for-free-with-jeopardylabs/ https://eduk8.me/2021/02/remote-learning-vs-snow-days-comic/

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Google Classroom How to invite parents

Byryan November 17, 2016August 11, 2021

Updated Sept. 2020 – Google accounts are not required for guardians, how to remove guardians Google Classroom added the ability to invite guardians over the past year, but there are some questions on how the process works. This Google Classroom How to invite parents article will hopefully help with that. I’ve also created a video to…

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#b2s 7. Lay out your classroom

Byryan August 8, 2016August 7, 2016

This is part 7 of 13 things to do before the first day of school. Who doesn’t like to drag furniture around their classrooms for hours trying to find the perfect arrangement? Well, pretty much everyone, but that’s why we have computers. There are tools you can use to lay out your classroom on the…

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11. Present at a conference (13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning)

Byryan December 8, 2016December 8, 2016

Present at a conference is part 11 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. One of the best ways to learn is to share and help others learn. This is only of the tenets of teaching, but once we become teachers, we kind of forget about sharing and teaching our peers. You may feel…

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