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2023-24 Nearpod NewsDTL Spotlight
DTL Options for Your 32 Hour Educator Directed Pay
Are you looking for a way to increase your digital skills and knowledge? The DTL team is offering two 16-hour classes, which would meet the 32-hour requirement for your Educator Directed Paid Professional Development. These courses are self-paced and begin on October 2nd. All coursework must be completed by March 29th to qualify for the program.
32-Hour Directed Educator Pay DTL Course Sign-Up
Using School AI Effectively in the Classroom
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made a remarkable entry into education, leaving educators with a mix of emotions. In this course we’ll help you navigate this new frontier by looking at different types of AI and how they’re used, the ethical challenges and dilemmas of AI in education, how AI changes teaching and learning, and how you can design activities and assessments with AI in mind. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions about how AI fits, or doesn’t fit, into their teaching practice.
Instructor Contact Information: Deanna Taylor
Teaching Digital Citizenship
In this course, participants will learn what digital citizenship is, how to teach students to be responsible digital citizens, and how to talk with students openly about cyberbullying and other potential pitfalls of social media. Participants will learn how to model digital citizenship and develop tools and lessons to use with students of all ages.
Instructor Contact Information: Kiera Beddes
Canva Back to School Toolkit
Canva Spotlight - Back to School Toolkit
Canva put together a toolkit for back to school to help you get a head start on the new school year. Explore it to learn ways you can use Canva to prepare for the new school year and to engage your students. It includes suggested activity cards to give you ideas for things you can do to help you have the best school year yet!
Back To School Teacher Toolkit - JSD Copy by Colby HawkinsMeet Your New Digital Learning Specialists!
Meet Your New Digital Learning Specialists!
Kelli has been an educator for ten years, teaching 4th and 5th grade prior to her current role as a JSD Digital Learning Specialist. She has a Bachelor's Degree from BYU in Elementary Education and is pursuing a Master's Degree in Educational Technology from UVU. Kelli has endorsements in ESL, Educational Technology, and Instructional Coaching. She is a Google Trainer and co-leader of the Google Educator Group in Utah, a Utah Teacher Fellow and serves on the UCET (Utah Coalition for Educational Technology) Board. She loves finding new ways to engage students through the use of technology.
Kasey Chambers is a Digital Learning Specialist and Coaching Specialist in Jordan School District. This is her 12th year in education, all of which have been in Jordan School District. She taught 5th grade at Butterfield Canyon Elementary for 8 years in-person, and 1 year fully virtual. This helped her discover a passion for digital learning, and it became her mission to learn effective ways to teach and engage students virtually. She then became the Digital Instructional Coach at Rocky Peak Virtual Elementary. She loves to learn new things, and is a total geek about educational technology and blended learning.
Back-to-School Professional Development Day
Professional Development Day- August 15th
The DTL team taught some amazing sessions at the JSD Back-to-School Professional Development Day on August 15. Elementary teachers learned about incorporating Digital Tools into Literacy instruction, while Secondary teachers focused on integrating technology into their specific content areas. Our DTL team will be at the following locations:
Herriman High School (Grades K-2)
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- "Technology Tools for Fluency Performance" by Deanna Taylor and Larisa Nageli
Riverton High School (Grades 3-5)
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- "Oral Reading Fluency and Digital Tools" by Kelli Cannon and Kasey Chambers
Mountain Ridge High School (Secondary Social Studies):
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- "Empowering Secondary Students Through Media Literacy" by Kiera Beddes
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- "Bring Your Social Studies Class into the 21st Century" by Colby Hawkins
Copper Hills High School (Secondary Science)
- "Let's Get Digital- Digital Science Tools" by Kiera Beddes, Jared Covili and Traci Rindlisbach
Copper Mountain Middle School (Secondary Math)
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- "How Can You Use the Big 6 in Your Math Class?" by Ross Rogers