Looking to make technology use a habit in your classroom? Make it a routine! Grow your practice with EdTech routines: replicable digital activities that you can use in any context, with any content.
- Staff members working in any subject area or setting (synchronous, asynchronous, online, in-person, or hybrid) who are looking to transform their teaching and increase students’ digital resilience
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
Looking to make technology use a habit in your classroom? Make it a routine! Edtech routines are replicable digital activities that can be leveraged regularly regardless of context or content. Designing and integrating edtech routines can build on your existing best practices and help your learners develop digital resilience. Join our five-part series to explore new digital tools, identify evidence-based strategies, and design two edtech routines that can be a regular part of your instructional practice.
This course is designed to help you develop a systematic approach to developing edtech routines that best suit your learners and learning context, and that can be flexibly implemented within a variety of settings. Over the course of five sessions, you will consider your students’ goals and context, explore edtech resources and tools, choose tools that will work best for you and your students, and design and implement two edtech routines with feedback and support from coaches and colleagues.
This course has been adapted for Massachusetts educators from the IDEAL Consortium Course: Building an EdTech Strategy Toolkit (BEST).
Format & Requirements: This course consists of four, 1.5-hour sessions, about three hours of independent work, and a final project that should take about one hour to complete. In addition, there is an optional final reflection that should take about two hours to complete and an optional fifth session where participants will showcase their routines. The total estimated time to complete this course is 10-12 hours.
- Part 1: Independent activities in Canvas (10/5/26-10/8/26)
- Part 2: Virtual workshop on Zoom (10/8/26, 1–2:30 p.m.)
- Part 3: Independent activities in Canvas (10/9/26–10/20/26)
- Part 4: Virtual workshop on Zoom (10/22/26, 1–2:30 p.m.)
- Part 5: Independent activities in Canvas (10/23/26–11/3/26)
- Part 6: Virtual workshop on Zoom (11/5/26, 1–2:30 p.m.)
- Part 7: Independent activities in Canvas (11/6/26–11/17/26)
- Part 8: Virtual workshop on Zoom (11/19/26, 1–2:30 p.m.)
- Part 9: Final project and optional reflection in Canvas (11/19/26–12/1/26)
- Part 10: Optional final routine showcase on Zoom (12/3/26, 1–2:30 p.m.)
Access & Support: You will receive instructions for accessing the synchronous sessions via Zoom and course materials in Canvas from Lucy Burriss. If you need technical assistance to access the course or its features, please contact Lucy at lucy.burriss@jsi.org.
Can’t join us for this course? Be sure to check out World Education’s EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit. This app provides information on different EdTech routines and technology integration strategies for your classroom.
- Explore a variety of resources you can use to gain an understanding of learners’ digital skills, goals, and mindsets
- Identify evidence-based instructional strategies for your learners based on factors such as background, cognition, literacy, and social and emotional learning
- Identify edtech tools that align with your chosen strategies in order to develop sustainable, repeatable routines
- Write two sustainable, strategy-based edtech routines using an established template, implement them during instruction and adjust based on your experience
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
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