One of the most frequent questions educators Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller hear from teachers is: "How can I effectively implement digital tools in my classroom when I don't fully understand them myself?" It can be challenging to add new technology to the classroom. Figuring out the equipment and software and deciding how to integrate technology into existing lesson plans are just a few of the learning curves teachers face. But adding technology to classrooms isn't optional; it's a must if students are going to be well-equipped for the future. In 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom, Keeler and Miller shorten the learning curve by providing a thorough overview of the Google Classroom App. Part of Google Apps for Education (GAfE), Google Classroom was specifically designed to help teachers save time by streamlining the process of going digital. Complete with screenshots, 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom provides ideas and step-by-step instruction to help teachers implement this powerful tool. Google Classroom helps teachers: • Encourage collaboration between students • Seamlessly use other google tools, such as Google Docs • Provide timely feedback to keep students engaged in the learning process • Organize assignments and create a paperless classroom Google Classroom makes it easy to facilitate a digital or blended-learning classroom. 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom shows you how to make the most of this valuable, free tool. You'll learn how to: • Set up and add students to your Google Classroom • Create a lesson • Share announcements and assignments with multiple classes • Reduce cheating • See who's really working on team projects • Offer virtual office hours • Personalize the learning experience • And much more!

50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom

Education & Teaching

Keeler, Alice

Miller, Libbi

Schools & Teaching

Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated

Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.

Today's technology empowers educators to move away from the traditional classroom where teachers lead and students work independently-each doing the same thing. In 50 Things to Go Further with Google Classroom: A Student-Centered Approach, authors and educators Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller offer inspiration and resources to help you create a digitally rich, engaging, student-centered environment. They show you how to tap into the power of individualized learning that is possible with Google Classroom.

50 Things to Go Further with Google Classroom: A Student-Centered Approach

“Why do I need to know how to do math when I can find the answer on my phone?”
If you’ve ever heard a variation of that question from your students—or asked it yourself—this book is for you. Bringing technology into the classroom is about so much more than replacing overhead projectors and chalkboards with Smart Boards. Unfortunately, as Stanford Professor Jo Boaler says, “We are in the twenty-first century, but visitors to many math classrooms could be forgiven for thinking they had stepped back in time and walked into the Victorian era.” But that’s all about to change . . .
In Teaching Math with Google Apps, author-educators Alice Keeler and Diana Herrington reveal more than 50 ways teachers can use technology in math classes. The goal isn’t using tech for tech’s sake; rather, it’s to help students develop critical-thinking skills and learn how to apply mathematical concepts to real life.
Memorization and speed tests seem irrelevant to students who can find the solution to almost any math problem with a tap of the finger. But today’s digital tools allow teachers to make math relevant. Specifically, Google Apps give teachers the opportunity to interact with students in more meaningful ways than ever before, and G Suite empowers students to stretch their thinking and their creativity as they collaborate, explore, and learn.
Teaching Math with Google Apps shows you how to: <ul>
<li>Create engaging activities that make math relevant to your students</li> <li>Interact with students throughout the learning process</li> <li>Spend less time repeating instructions and grading work</li> <li>Improve your lessons so you can better meet your students’ needs</li> </ul>
Packed with lesson ideas, links to downloadable templates, step-by-step instructions, and resources, Teaching Math with Google Apps equips you to bring your math class into the twenty-first century with easy-to-use technology. What are you waiting for?

Teaching Math with Google Apps, Volume 1: 50 G Suite Activities

Herrington, Diana

Dave Burgess Consulting

Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

Students hate it. Parents wonder if it’s worth the tears, frustration, and nightly arguments. Teachers debate whether it’s really helpful or just busywork that consumes their precious time. One thing everyone can agree on is that homework is a contentious topic. In Ditch That Homework, Matt Miller and Alice Keeler discuss the pros and cons of homework, why teachers assign it, and what life could look like without it. As they evaluate the research and share parent and teacher insights, the authors explore some of the benefits for ditching homework: Better education for all students Reduced stress for families More intentionality with lesson planning Increased love of learning More time for teachers to focus on learning at school and enjoying their after-school hours And that’s just the beginning. Miller and Keeler offer a convincing case for ditching—or at a minimum greatly reducing—homework. They also provide practical guidance on how to eliminate homework from your lessons. You’ll discover strategies for improving learning through differentiation and student agency and by tapping into the way the brain works best. Are you ready? Read this book and you’ll understand why it’s time to Ditch That Homework! #DitchHW

Miller, Matt

Are Littles ‘big enough’ to use technology in the classroom? Yes! Pre-K and elementary school-aged children are naturally curious about the world around them. They love to explore and play, in fact, that’s how they learn. That innate drive to discover and willingness to try is also what makes Littles great at embracing new opportunities. In Google Apps for Littles, author-educators Christine Pinto and Alice Keeler encourage teachers to tap into their young students’ curiosity, particularly when it comes to technology. The authors share a wealth of innovative ways to integrate digital tools in the primary classroom to make learning engaging and relevant for even the youngest of today’s twenty-first-century learners. Google Apps for Littles equips you with . . . Practical ways to approach technology with young learners Activities for integrating Google Apps in the primary classroom Easy-to-implement ideas for using G Suite as an educator Exercises that build important skills, such as critical thinking and collaboration Children already know that they don’t need to wait for a grown-up to give them information, and many are already familiar with smartphones and tables. By helping them understand how to use these amazing digital tools to learn and create, rather than just consume information, you are equipping them for their future education. Empower your Littles with experiences that place learning at their fingertips! It is time to have a shift your mindset and believe that the youngest kids on an elementary school campus can do more.

Google Apps for Littles: Believe They Can

Computers & Technology

Pinto, Christine

Networking & Cloud Computing

"Matt and Alice are challenging educators to fly again. To give up the shortcuts and the bureaucratic tools and actually go back to making change happen. Bravo!"—Seth Godin, author, Stop Stealing Dreams
Students hate it. 
Parents wonder if it’s worth the tears, frustration, and nightly arguments. 
Teachers debate whether it’s really helpful or just busywork that consumes their precious time.
One thing everyone can agree on is that homework is a contentious topic.
In Ditch That Homework, Matt Miller and Alice Keeler discuss the pros and cons of homework, why teachers assign it, and what life could look like without it. As they evaluate the research and share parent and teacher insights, the  authors explore some of the benefits for ditching homework:
 <ul>
 <li>Better education for all students</li>
 <li>Reduced stress for families</li>
 <li>More intentionality with lesson planning </li>
 <li>Increased love of learning</li>
 <li>More time for teachers to focus on learning at school and enjoying their after-school hours</li>
 
</ul>
 And that’s just the beginning. Miller and Keeler offer a convincing case for ditching—or at a minimum greatly reducing—homework. They also provide practical guidance on how to eliminate homework from your lessons. You’ll discover strategies for improving learning through differentiation and student agency and by tapping into the way the brain works best.
 Are you ready? Read this book and you’ll understand why it’s time to 
 Ditch That Homework! 
 #DitchHW

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

Mattina, Kimberly

Software

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

50 Ways to Engage Students with Google Apps

Lyon, Heather

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50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom

50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom

50 Things to Go Further with Google Classroom: A Student-Centered Approach

Teaching Math with Google Apps, Volume 1: 50 G Suite Activities

Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

Google Apps for Littles: Believe They Can

Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

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

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

50 Ways to Engage Students with Google Apps