GNS: Ed Tech Resources
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Did you know that the Tech Team - which includes a Tech Lead Teacher at every GYPSD school - has a lending library with over 20 resources and activity ideas teachers can access to enhance learning and engagement with curriculum?!
In October, Ed Tech Supervising Teacher Kandis Gilks hosted this year's Ed Tech cohort to ensure everyone new and returning was familiar with the inventory and had an opportunity to consider how the various resources supported skill development alongside literacy and numeracy practice while enriching the outcomes in the new curriculum.
In November, the Ed Tech team received an inperson Class VR training session and explored GYPSD's new Class VR Virtual Reality Goggles.
The grade 5/6 students at Evansview Elementary got to explore that technology with the Makey Makey devices loaned from GYPSD's extensive Ed Tech Digital Lending Library. The Makey Makey technology turns everyday objects into a touchpad with circuits; an invention kit designed to connect everyday objects to computer keys. Using a circuit board, alligator clips, and a USB cable, the toy uses closed loop electrical signals to send the computer either a keyboard stroke or mouse click signal. The students had playdough to connect their circuits to. In music class, students played the bongos - discussing tempos and practicing different tempos. They then made a more complicated circuit to play the piano. Afterward, students had free time to explore different apps like soccer, Etch a Sketch, and pinball!