EDST 220 Portfolio: Jillian Cizynski


Edutopia •

48 Ultra-Cool Summer Sites for Kids and Teachers

A good majority of northern hemisphere and international schools are winding down the 2011-12 school year, and doors will be closing as the students and teachers take off on their summer adventures. Here is a list of great sites for kids and teachers to keep you happily productive and learning this summer. These are in no way in any order of personal preference or coolness. If your students like The Magic Tree House series (and let's be honest, who doesn't?), they'll love The Magic Tree House we
Apple Podcasts •

‎House of #EdTech Podcasts

As a Student teacher who has been displaced due to the current events of COVID-19. Our hours are being made up by doing other activities, one being listening to podcasts. I have found this podcast to be beyond helpful and fun to listen to. I have listened to about 15 podcasts now, and I can not recommend this podcast enough for new educators!! I have recommended this podcast to all of my fellow displaced teachers and they have all loved it just as much as I have!

Internet Safety 101: Youth Risky Behavior

A Closer Look: Who Is At Risk? With the advent of social networking sites and detailed chat profiles, predators don’t need to work very hard to piece together information about a child online. Predators can judge by the appearance of a profile or by the behavior that a child is exhibiting whether he or she might be a prime target for an online relationship. Teens who don’t use privacy settings on social networking and gaming sites often place their information—including their deepest desires,
The Education Trust - West •

Education Equity in Crisis: The Digital Divide

The digital and technology resource divide is not a new phenomenon facing school-aged children of color and children experiencing poverty. A recent study found that, nationally, around 17% of children are unable to complete their homework due to limited internet access. This “digital divide” and often resulting “homework gap” mirrors trends in California, where about 1 in 6 school-aged children lack access to the internet at home. These numbers grow for the state’s most vulnerable children: stud

Using Technology as a Learning Tool, Not Just the Cool New Thing

I fully realized the digital age when I first spoke to my grandparents over the "talk" feature on AOL Instant Messenger. How cool is it, I thought, to have grandparents that not only have a computer, but know how to use it? What was more striking was that my grandfather, a man who never had much formal technical education, built not one, but two, computers from parts—motherboard, disk drives, hard drives, and so forth—with the help of my cousin. He has high-speed Internet access, sends and recei
Forbes •

Technology In The Classroom: The Question Is Not "If" But "How"

Last Thursday, California approved its first budget under Governor Gavin Newsom, making a substantial down payment on education for the state’s high-tech economy. The budget significantly increases the state’s investment in schools and includes new funding for expanding broadband infrastructure in low-income communities and teaching computer science in the schools. These investments advance the effort begun in 2018, when the State Board of Education adopted computer science standards for K-12 st
Digital Divide Council •

5 Ways the Digital Divide Effects Education

The incorporation of information technology in learning has drastically transformed the society especially to those who can access the services. On the contrary, to the people who cannot access these services, they remain in the dark, and this has led to a new stratification in the society whereby, the haves get more vibrant with new ideas while the have-nots remain conservant to the old ideologies. The huge disparity in access to information and communication technology can be either geographic
Vanderbilt University •

How Technology Enhances Teaching and Learning

This article was originally published in the Fall 2000 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. Students at the Owen School’s Strategy in the New Economy seminar enter a classroom that looks like any other, except that a projection system and video screen have been installed. Their professor announces that today they will be joined by a guest lecturer, a senior VP from a Fortune 500 corporation. What makes this guest lecture unique is that the students are sitting in a Nashville classroom