Ed Tech Presentations

Allow Timothy to show you how you can leverage technology to meaningfully engage and increase connections for students in your classroom. Work in partnership with Timothy to create a personalized presentation to support your school or district move forward in meaningful technology integration to support student learning. The goal of technology is to help increase connections for students in their learning. Connections with themselves, with each other, with their teachers, with the content, with their world and their futures. Bring Timothy to your event for a collaborative and hands-on day of fun and learning teachers will be ready to use tools Monday. Contact us to begin planning our time together!

Here is a list of sessions that we can connect around:

When in the real world are we ever going to use this?  You have never taught math or been in a math class if you haven't thought this or heard this.  The math class, perhaps more than any other gives us an incredible opportunity to prepare students to be ready for their real-world even if they never factor another trinomial in there lives.  (This offering can be presented as a keynote or as a workshop presentation.)

Active Learning.  Students sit down too much. Students listen too much.  Students are passive too much.  Learn to shift the learning experience from passive participation to active engagement.  Students should be doing more problem solving than their teachers.  Student's should be communicating and troubleshooting more than their teachers.  (This offering can be presented as a keynote or as a workshop presentation.)

Teaching Students To Fail.  We want our students to be strong problem-solving.  Big problem.  Many of them are afraid to take a risk. They are afraid of sharing their ideas with others.  Frankly, they are scared to face their mistakes let alone share their mistakes with classmates.  Problem-solving is about coming up with good ideas. Our brains can not come with good ideas when we are afraid of failing.    Teaching students to fail is not a pep talk about getting up again when you get knocked down.  Teaching students to fail is empowering them to risk more, to fail more to reach out more, to connect more to learn more.  (This offering can be presented as a keynote or as a workshop presentation.)

Making Assessment Matter:  When a student scores 76% on an assessment or an entire course, what can we accurately say they can do? What do they still need to work on?  How can they improve?  How does the assessment process motivate students to learn more?  How do we teach students to talk about their learning in terms of what they can do rather than what they got?  How do we shift students' focus from getting a specific mark to achieving a high level of understanding?  (This offering can be presented as a keynote or as a workshop presentation.)

Stop Teaching Math: Are we teaching problem-solving if we are showing kids how to do problems?  Should our major goal in math classes be to follow the leader or to create leaders?  Who should be doing the majority of thinking and doing in our math classes? The student of the teacher?  Be part of the movement to stop teaching math and instead teach people to do math. (This offering can be presented as a keynote or as a workshop presentation.)

Desmos 1: Learn how to use Desmos as a presentation tool.  Increase meaning, understanding, discovery, and engagement.

Desmos 2: Learn how to use/edit Desmos Teacher activities.  Students love these tasks. Increase fun as you increase rigor.

Desmos 3: Learn how to make your own Desmos activities.  Handcraft your own tasks to match your style and your class.

Equatio 1: This is the best equation editor. It can be used on all online platforms. This is a must for using G-suite. 

Equatio 2: It is more than an equation editor.   You will learn all tricks to optimize your use of Equatio on your classroom

Flippity: Sorry Desmos, I use flippity more often.  This is my must-have tool to increase interaction/connection among my students.

Goformative 1: Learn how to use the best self-marking tool for math teachers.  Track and support students easily.

Goformative 2: Learn all the premium features and different ways you can expand your feedback reach with your students

Real-World Connections: Stop trying to be the primary connection maker in your class. Learn how to get your students to do it for you!  The best connections can and should be made by students.  We need to help them makes connections rather than tell them what we think the connections are.

Starting Class Well: Learn how to use riddles to engage, challenge, and connect students to your room.  You will have them risktaking, thinking, and brainstorming in less than 5 minutes every day.  The first 5 minutes of class is so important for setting the emotional tone of the class.  This session is so important for all math teachers to see.

Google Docs:  Learn to create collaborative assignments, assessments with your colleagues.  Google Docs are the best way to make word processing documents.

Google Forms/Sheets 1: This is an essential tool to gain powerful information from your students.  This is a very important formative tool for students and teachers.  Google sheets organize all this important information for you. 

Google Forms/Sheets 2:  Go deeper with forms.  Make a quiz, choose your own adventure...

Google Slides: This is such a powerful presenting tool.  Create dynamic presentations, lessons, and activities with slides

Google Classroom:  Organize all the important details for your students in google classroom.  This is the best way of communicating and supporting all the details of your classroom. 

Tspray's Top 40 (Part 1):  This is my top 40 tools and extensions to make your math lessons pop.  The audience will guide the direction and pace of this session.

Tspray's Top 40 (Part 2):  40 is way too many things to cover in one session.   We will continue from where we left off in part 1.

Tspray's Top 40 (Part 3):  What part of 40 is too many things to cover in one session do we not understand.   We will continue from where we left off in part 2.  I won't even bother creating a part 4 title, let's just assume it is a go.

Sorry Siri, I Found Someone New:  Ok, you have now learned that basically everything we now present students is a link.  Big problem.  Where do you store all these files, videos, apps, tools, pictures, videos...?  You need a system to make sure that your most important lessons and ideas are no more than 3 clicks away.  If you don't know how to find it quickly, you won't use it.