More Tech

It's not to say that I NEVER use tech with my littles, but I use it as a tool to do something I would already be doing--only better. 

So, like many of us technophile teachers,...

•  Instead of pasting my walls with a billion anchor charts--I post electronic ones that are appropriate to what we are learning just at that moment on my Interactive Whiteboard (IWB)
• Rather than always singing (yeah, I still do a fair amount of singing!), I occasionally ask my smart speakers to play music all over the whole room to set the mood or help us transition
• Instead of making students wait to access text they can't yet read independently, my tiny geniuses can each pick a book they want to read and scan the QR code on it to access audiobook for the text they selected.
• In place of all cramming around a single student to try to see a brilliant move they made as an author, I mirror their writing up to the big screen while the author points to their favorite spot in the text and reads it aloud to their peers.