GNS 241010 Championing Digital Innovation - GYPSD's EdTech Team
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On Friday, September 27th, all of the Educational Technology (EdTech) Lead Teachers across the Division - one from every school - met in Hinton for their first professional learning day of the school year, led by Kandis Gilks, the Division's Supervisor Teacher for Educational Technology, Lyle Lee, the Director of Technology Services, and Adam Fragomeni, Teacher Consultant.
Part of the day included time to learn about new tech tools in the Division’s Digital Lending library with over 20 resources and activity ideas teachers can access to enhance learning and engagement with curriculum. EdTech Leads then provided feedback on how the added resources could best be utilized in a classroom setting.
Leads were also introduced to the Tech Team’s mini-pilot with the Brisk Teaching platform. They will pilot the digital tool to determine if there is value in bringing it in for teachers’ use division-wide. They also reviewed the Brisk platform using the Division’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guidelines created last school year to practice what kind of considerations should be thought of before procuring an AI system.
Grande Yellowhead is proud to offer multiple edtech tools used in our classrooms which may include interactive whiteboards, educational apps, learning management systems, coding and robotics, gamification, adaptive learning platforms, and virtual reality - just to name a few!
GNS Championing Digital Innovation
