Luhtala has also noticed some app fatigue among her colleagues. “They’re talking about what kids are doing in the classroom far more than they are about the devices and the apps,” Luhtala said. Rather than picking an app and trying to find a place for it in the classroom, Luhtala is hearing educators and their students describe what they want to do and then how they chose a tech tool to make that happen. "They are thinking about how to best integrate the innovation with content." “You are giving them an opportunity to improve their own expectations because they aren’t just dealing with the technology," Luhtala said.
“A year ago people felt like it was this new thing that was so overwhelming,” Luhtala said, “and now it really seems much more comfortable.”Įducators have become proficient with their favorite classroom apps and are getting more creative with using them to achieve teaching goals. 'If it doesn’t feel different than it did a year ago, that's alarming. She tapped her professional learning network of educators, teaching all grades and located all over the country, to share their favorite tech tools. “The conversations I had were radically different than they were a year ago,” said Michelle Luhtala, the librarian for New Canaan High School and host of an Emerging Tech webinar on edWeb. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them. Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning.
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