Use Tech Challenges to Motivate Teachers with Andrea Keller [ECM #45]

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Andrea Keller @akbusybee is a former special ed teacher turned IT integrator who is using a gamified system of tech challenges to motivate faculty and staff to try new tools and has some great ways she connected her special ed class to the world. Her weekly math and writing challenges are a great way to connect a school into a real learning community.

Who will want to listen to this show?

For IT Integrators this is a must listen but special ed teachers, math teachers and writing teachers will find ideas.

My favorite part: Special Ed Skype Parties

I loved it when she shared about how her special ed class had a “birthday party” with a class from another state via Skype and the fact that although she is IT integrator, she pays special attention to her special ed students and teachers. Quieter students deserve intentional focus and great educators always remember to include them in technology plans.

Listen to Every Classroom Matters Episode 44: Andrea Keller

Listen on iTunes “Using Tech Challenges” to Engage Teachers and Students
Listen to the show on BAM Radio

Add Andrea Keller to your PLN

Blog: http://busybeeideas.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @akbusybee

Last Wednesday’s post on how her Tech challenges have grown and changed since Andrea created them is one you’ll want to read.

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Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

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