UCET 2021

Pre-service teachers from University of Maine Farmington will share their research, ideas, and prototypes of how technology can support learning in middle/secondary English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. They have designed a unit in their content area using the Understanding by Design model. The performance task of the unit gives the learners an opportunity to demonstrate their understandings in a real-world context utilizing technology in a transformative way. These future teachers will share an overview of their unit as well as prototypes of their unit performance task and two other technology-based assessments. This is an opportunity to see a variety of web-based technologies and how they can be used for summative and formative assessment. We have two presentation time slots; half the students will present at this one, the other half at the other time slot, so content is different at each. There is no sequence to the two presentations; participants at either presentation will have access to the documentation for all of the students’ units in both presentations.

Pre-service teachers from University of Maine Farmington will share their research, ideas, and prototypes of how technology can support learning in middle/secondary English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. They have designed a unit in their content area using the Understanding by Design model. The performance task of the unit gives the learners an opportunity to demonstrate their understandings in a real-world context utilizing technology in a transformative way. These future teachers will share an overview of their unit as well as prototypes of their unit performance task and two other technology-based assessments. This is an opportunity to see a variety of web-based technologies and how they can be used for summative and formative assessment. We have two presentation time slots; half the students will present at this one, the other half at the other time slot, so content is different at each. There is no sequence to the two presentations; participants at either presentation will have access to the documentation for all of the students’ units in both presentations.

Are you worried about student wellbeing? Would you like to be able to support the development of social and emotional skills of your students more effectively? Do you know how student wellbeing affects learning and which areas of wellbeing are the most crucial? Do you know how data can be used to improve your school climate?

Join us for our session on enhancing social and emotional learning with Microsoft technologies. In this session we will discuss our tools for teaching SEL in Minecraft: Education Edition, practicing SEL in FlipGrid and Teams for Education, and assessing for SEL and student well-being with Teams insights.

We will explore engaging JAMF tools and other tools for both remote and in-classroom learning. This engaging presentation will help you discover what is truly possible to replicate both in your classroom and at home.

Google Forms are a great tool for many things. In this session, we'll dive a little deeper into Google Forms and learn how you can differentiate based on student responses. This can be used in a fun Choose Your Own Adventure game, to create an adaptive assessment, to sort students based on certain criteria, etc.

The current math educational model of "cram and flush" is not working. Math students arrive at the end of a school year without much long-term mastery. How can we use technology to help make it stick? In this session, Josh Britton will share his proven model for driving long-term retention through use of Get More Math software. GMM provides cumulative mixed review sessions, automatically differentiated for each student, so that every day students can spend time spiraling back over old content and retain their gains.