Presented by Clemencia Acevedo Twitter:@Acevedo493
For NYCDOE Schools ONLY.
This session will explore key features offered by Google Classroom to improve student's literacy and productivity. Participants will learn and experience how this App facilitates teachers to post assignments, share resources and supports students to complete assignments and collaborate with peers online.
Empowering Parents Through Tech Tools and Social Media by Clemencia Acevedo
Teachers agree that parents are key to success in children's education. We know that their involvement in their child’s learning makes a huge positive difference. However, connecting with parents to inform them about their child’s learning needs and progress in class is a challenge because teachers don’t have enough time available in their daily schedule to make frequent phone calls, send text messages or write emails. But innovations in technology are gradually assisting teachers overcome this problem. Technology companies such as Remind, Apple, Facebook and Google are partnering with public education departments to offer free and useful tech tools that teachers can use to engage students in learning and involve parents in the academic needs, progress and success of their children.
Parents want to be informed how their children are performing in class. They want want to know what they can do from their end to ensure that their children learn something to be able to do high school and college work in the future. At least, that’s the message I have received in my communication with my student’s parents. Even if parents work long hours and do hard work, they still care and are willing to schedule a best time to talk or reply to teacher’s messages because they want their children to succeed. Keeping in mind this belief, I have found different ways to communicate with parents fast and effective. I have followed and incorporated in my practice how teachers in the city and across the US have utilized tech tools and social media to communicate and collaborate with parents to guide young learners follow constructive behavior and help them finish important class assignments.
The use of technology and social media is gaining interest to support teaching and learning. This February, I presented Collaborating with Parents and Community Using Remind and & Social Media Tech Tools at Apple SoHo Store as part of Apple’s outreach to teachers. The focus was to share with other educators how I have been using tech tools and social media to assist parents play a more active role in their children’s education.
Using social media tools for education is a new phenomenon, many are hesitant to employ them in teaching. This is a short list of excellent online places teachers can ask questions.
On Tuesday, December 20, 2016, I had the opportunity to attend NY EdTech Week. Thank you IZONE, Startedaccelerator and NY EdTech Week team for the ticket! Such a wonderful and encouraging day for educators, Ed tech creators and investors. The education and tech business community are building partnerships to improve teaching and impact student learning regardless of their social and economic background.
This collaborative initiative reminded me about the books I read for my history class at Hunter College on how innovative individuals, investors and government at the local and national level worked together in the first half of the 1800s in the United States and as a result led to a massive economic growth, boom in the Arts&Culture and improved the quality of life for some sectors of the American population. It also reminded me of that vibrant atmosphere full of thinking, knowledge and culture when I worked in the film industry and networked with film festival directors, filmmakers and producers in film festivals such as The World FF (CANADA) and Berlin FF (Germany).
NY EdTech Week featured speakers who are now making a difference in education driven by the belief that our students can succeed in school and acquire the knowledge and skills they now need to secure a decent life for themselves, their families and community at large. It feels so good to know that such people exist and be inspired by their wisdom and actions.
Hear what educators, business men/women, reformers and artists had to say!
Carmen Farina, NYC Schools Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education
Jim Shelton, Head of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Education Division
David Kirkland, Associate Professor at NYU Steinhardt & Alex Rappaport, Co-Founder, CEO of Flocabulary
Ike Ramos, Educator and District Sales Manager & Artists of Flocabulary
Larry Berger, CEO Amplify
AQ&A Session with Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform Jim Shelton, Head of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Education Division & others
