Incorporating Technology in the Classroom📱 💻

1. **Procedures**

1.1. As a way to personalize instruction

1.1.1. Allowing teachers to assign students specific things based on interests and needs. Ex: Hyperdocs: https://hyperdocs.co/

1.1.2. Allowing students to investigate their own interests through online research.

1.2. https://nearpod.com/

1.2.1. Gives classes the opportunity to take virtual field trips and write or draw out their ideas.

1.3. https://app.peardeck.com/join

1.3.1. Gives teachers the ability to make content delivery more engaging and keep track of student's progress and learning during class as well as after.

2. **Communications**

2.1. Beginning of the year discussion on Digital Citizenship and what that means.

2.2. Parent Communications

2.3. Students should be present

2.4. Digital Citizenship Conversation where kids set ground rules for the classroom.

2.5. Get to know students and their backgrounds, so no student feels excluded

3. **Protocols**

3.1. Having devices charged

3.2. "Sharking" computer while speaker is talking (closing computer a bit so they are paying attention)

3.3. Teachers having access to google docs because kids use that the 'text' in chat.

3.4. Devices should be assigned to students

3.5. If devices are being abused or misused they will be taken away