I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take time this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools–taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular.
Today: K-12 Survival Kits
Overview
Collections of resources for specific teacher needs to address technology. Options include:
- K-5 All-in-one Tech Integration Kit
- K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit
- MS All-in-one Tech Integration Kit
- MS New Teacher Survival Kit
- Homeschool Tech Survival Kit
K-5 All-in-one Tech Integration Kit
12 books
This is designed for the educator who isn’t a tech teacher, tech integration specialist, and who wants to put more tech tools into his/her grade-level and subject lesson plans. If you teach kindergarten-5th grade, you’re in the right place!
K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit
9 ebooks, 65 digital posters
For professionals new to teaching tech or expanding their pedagogy. It includes K-5 tech curriculum (including problem solving, productivity software, critical thinking, share/publish, mouse skills, image editing, Google Earth, image editing, web tools, and more), keyboarding and digital citizenship curricula, classroom posters, pedagogic articles on tech ed topics, tips and tricks, and more.
MS All-in-one Tech Integration Kit
15 ebooks, 7 lesson plans
Designed for the educator who isn’t a tech teacher, tech integration specialist, and who wants to put more tech tools into his/her grade-level and subject lesson plans. If you teach Middle School, you’re in the right place!
MS New Teacher Survival Kit
9 ebooks, 6 themed lesson plan bundles
A new teacher survival kit–for professionals new to teaching tech or expanding their pedagogy. It includes a Middle School tech curriculum (including word processing, gamification, robotics, Scratch, Alice, programming, and more), keyboarding and digital citizenship curricula, classroom posters, pedagogic articles on tech ed topics, bundles of grade-level lesson plans to integrate into inquiry, tips and tricks, personal mentoring.
Homeschool Tech Survival Kit
4 ebooks
This is exclusively for homeschoolers, a technology curriculum for K-5. With this Homeschool Tech Survival Kit, you get all the tech ed resources you need to integrate technology into your child’s learning, lesson plans, inquiry, and curriculum requirements.
Who needs these
Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists
Classroom grade level teachers if your tech teacher doesn’t cover basic tech skills.
How do you use these
The lesson plans are optimized for a lab setting or classroom. If you’re the tech teacher and have dedicated technology time each week, this takes you through that 30-45 minutes, unpacking what needs to be taught when. If you’re a classroom teacher, integrate the lesson pieces into your regular curriculum.
Where do you get them
Available as a single or multi-user license
Pay via PayPal or school PO
Screenshots from the K-8 books:
Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work:
https://forms.aweber.com/form/07/1910174607.htm
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
