when you add a positive and negative number you actually subtract the numbers and keep the sign of the larger one. Instead we modeled the process of adding integers with colored chips, charges, and balloons and bow ties (I will have to explain that one some time). The students then looked for patterns, saw connections, and discovered the rule. Whoever stated the rule first then had the rule named after them, so for the rest of the year it became “Allison’s rule of adding integers with different signs”. To point is, we learn best by asking questions, trying things out, problem solving, and discovering the answers ourselves. The same is true with technology. If you don’t know how to do something, just poke a stick at it. Try it out. See what happens. It is highly unlikely that you are actually going to break anything. And if you do there is always the undo button or revision history or your friendly school technology support staff.
do I have any formal technology training. I just explore, click menus, see what happens, try things out, solve problems, ask questions, and learn. And you can too!
What are you teaching? In the end, as a Google trainer I don’t want to just teach educators how to use Google tools. I want to teach them how to learn more on their own. I am only going to be with them for an hour or a day or a week (for those brave boot campers), but they have the chance to keep learning much more than I can teach them after I am gone. I encourage you to do the same: -- In your professional learning -- As an instructor of educators -- As a teacher of children If you do not know something, embrace that as an opportunity to learn something new yourself and to teach others the importance of learning through discovery. So, can a co-teacher archive off someone else’s Google Class? You’ll just have to test it out yourself to see. Go poke a stick at it.
So if you want to see if a co-teacher can archive someone else’s class in Google Classroom, try it out. Create a demo class, invite a colleague to be a co-teacher, and see if they can archive the class. That’s how I learn about technology. I don’t have a degree in Educational Technology (my degree is in Math), nor
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