Smart Tech Use for Equity:

Teachers as Equity Designers

Janis Jones: Teacher on Special Assignment

Del Rio Elementary School, Oceanside, CA

Holly French: Humanities Teacher

Cajon Valley Middle School, El Cajon, CA

Janet Ilko: Humanities Teacher/ EL Program Manager

Health Sciences Middle School/ San Diego State University

SDAWP Consultants

How do you define Technology?Quickwrite:

What do your students do with technology?

4

History of Smart Tech

Use for Equity

Article

TOOLS

OUTCOMES~OR~

Animoto

Padlet

Screencast

Slides

NEXT STEPS:

The Curriculum ➢ Created lessons➢ Acquired materials➢ Students created

The Science

The Writing

Janis’s

Next

Steps

First

Grade

Marine

Debris

Project

5th Grade

Marine

Debris

Project

NEXT STEPS:

PLANNING TIME

Three things you

learned.

Two things you found

interesting.

One idea you can use

in your practice

tomorrow.

Three, Two, One Protocol

San Diego Area Writing Project Presentations

Janis JonesMaking to Make a DifferenceB4, San Tomas/Lawrence Room, 1:30-2:45

Holly French and Janet IlkoWriting for Change:C2, Winchester Room, 2:50-4:15

Do You Want to Know More?

Thanks for coming!

Resources

● Link to Slideshare presentation● Smart Tech Use For Equity article (Teaching Tolerance)● Plan sheet● Hicks, T, Turner, K.H, Teaching Adolescents to Read and Write Digital Texts Argument in the

Real World Heinemann 2017● Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens