Ideas for Using Technology in the Classroom to Teach Skills

Ideas for Using Technology in the Classroom



Student choice of technology is one of the most critical parts of using technology in the classroom.  Instead of choosing and learning a technology for them, let them choose and learn a technology.  They can even teach it to you!


1.  Creativity and Innovation

  • film a concept and edit it using a choice of tools
  • create stop motion video
  • design an invention and create a digital mockup
  • create models of processes (e.g. evaporation, addition, etc.)
  • color using online tools
  • create a puzzle of any type
  • have students blog or tweet


2.  Communication and Collaboration

  • work collaboratively writing a document
  • virtual conference with another classroom (even in your own school)
  • record screencast teaching other students
  • tell a digital story
  • have students blog
  • create a comic
  • develop a class wiki
  • write emails to be delivered to your future self (1 year later, at graduation, etc.)
  • partner students and send one out in the field sending pictures back to the one in the classroom
  • create an online marketing campaign


3.  Research

  • solve math problems using real-time data from the web
  • keep notes electronically
  • conduct informal research by online polling
  • have students determine if a fact is true or false by using internet searches
  • develop wikis on different subjects
  • record interviews with community members


4.  Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

  • research a school safety issue and design and implement a solution
  • create a puzzle a peer must solve online
  • research a community issue and develop a solution
  • have students rewrite one of your lessons to incorporate technology
  • using data available online, have students solve a world problem
  • find an issue with a current technology and correct it
  • design an animal with improved function


5.  Digital Citizenship and Technology Operations

  • have students research federal privacy laws
  • design a social media site while explaining all privacy controls
  • create a rubric and have students grade websites on credibility and educational appropriateness
  • create a schoolwide no texting while driving campaign
  • play an online game against another class
  • have students teach a younger student lessons about digital citizenship
  • have students teach younger students a technology

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