Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Good morning everyone! I am super excited to be a part of the Mastodon adventure! #Introduce

My passion is showing others how to integrate technology into education everyday life and into curriculum in a way that opens and broadens the resources students have available to learn and to present their understanding of what they have learned.

Technology is a tool to use like a fork is to food. It should never be the end result, but the resource to get us to where we need to go.

#EdTech

Interested in bringing some Design Thinking into your classroom but not sure where to start?

Check out the https://www.pactful.org/jtic23/

There is an information session this week and sign up closes early January.

You may also be interested in https://pactful.com even if you are not interested in the challenge.

#designthinking @edutooters

❤️"We gathered to support the Ukrainian nation, its people and its art," said American film director Martin Scorsese, speaking at Carnegie Hall in New York before the start of a concert of Ukrainian music. #StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin

Another clash of basic values – free exercise of religion versus anti-discrimination – in the supreme court today in case involving a religious website designer, who wants to avoid designing for same-sex couples. Court right wing majority likely to come down strong for her

Just saw this in my inbox from Richard Byrne -
50 Canva Tutorials for Teachers
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/12/50-canva-tutorials-for-teachers.html
We set up our own Canva system at school this fall, and it's been super-useful in classrooms. I love tools that allow students focus on content without struggling unproductively with the tools they're using.
#edtech

Christmas themed #StarTrek joke

Keeping black college students from voting in Georgia seems to be a priority for Georgia legislators.

HBCU students in Georgia face an extra obstacle in voting

Under Georgia law, public colleges and university students can use their student ID to vote. But those at private schools — including seven out of 10 HBCUs — cannot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/hbcu-students-georgia-face-extra-obstacle-voting-rcna59442

Classroom teachers tend to offer less help to a student who has a 1-1 paraprofessional. This disrupts the student-teacher relationship and belongingness with friends. There are better paraprofessional models. #LeadInclusion #EdChat #UDL #Inclusion #EduTooter #education #disability

So wait... the standard-bearer of the Republican Party has called for the "termination" of the Constitution, but it's progressives who don't believe in the rule of law?

@AlliFlowers I think most teachers use a lot of their own time, just to get the basics of their job done. I'm working on doing less of that, but I get way behind if I don't work at least an hour each evening and a few hours on the weekend.
You can't ensure all teachers get the training they need to teach with new tech unless you make it part of their job to learn, and that means making it part of their contracted time.
My district used to have 4 paid PD days, but they dropped those years ago.

Training for the big match.
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Sound on.

Finally made it back to Portland Jetport to see that a woman was passed out on the baggage carousel.

She’s slowly coming around.

Ooof that account migration is Stressful!

I've moved to a new home on mstdn.games!!

I'll be re-posting an introduction later but for all my fellow #gamers who are looking for a home to share and connect with other gamers mstdn.games is now OPEN!

#gaming #videogames #WorldofWarcraft #ffxiv #dnd #boardgames #nintendo #switch #steamdeck #xbox #playstation

What becomes longer with the addition of just 2 letters?

Long.

New idea for a Christmas candy, no charge:

Ornamints.

Big question alert: In about ten days I get to be part of a focus group in my district to give input on the vision for 2030.

What do you think I should be asking my district to work toward? What should school look like in 2030?

We are already 1:1 with chromebooks, but I see great needs in tech PD for teachers, equity based grading practices, adulting skills, more parents on campus again...

Open to other thoughts or suggestions...

@edutooters #education #edtech

This is incredible. Not sure how to process it, considering how unyielding Iran’s leadership is. NYTimes reports:

“Iran is abolishing the morality police, according to an announcement by the attorney general carried on state media, following months of protests set off by the death of a young woman who was being held by the force for supposedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress laws.” #Iran

US: 62% of adults accept at least one of the following New Age beliefs: reincarnation, astrology, psychics, and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects like mountains or trees

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/01/new-age-beliefs-common-among-both-religious-and-nonreligious-americans/ #PewResearch

The #RespectForMarriageAct wouldn't have passed without the leadership of Senator Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay lawmaker in the Senate. She says, "It’s interesting to see how opinion changes and how that’s reflected in a body like the US Senate." #velshi
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/sen-tammy-baldwin-on-spearheading-the-historic-bipartisan-effort-to-pass-the-same-sex-marriage-bill-156152901963