I connect to this! My students are much more engaged and lessons are more successful when technology is incorporated!

There are websites online, such as Vocaroo, that allows you to record your voice and save it as a file that can be shared. This can be great to give oral feedback to younger students who may not be able to read all the words in written feedback.

For feedback to be effective, it needs to be quick, specific and actionable!

I wonder how this can be accessible to Kindergarten students who don't have access to their own technology in the classroom?

This is a great site! This has resources for all subject areas and all grade levels. This is helpful to give students age appropriate lessons that incorporate technology in a fun, engaging way! The Cake Monster game is a quick, easy game to teach students about number line. This would be a great way for students to each get a turn to come up to the smart board. As students come up and take their turn, it can serve as a formative assessment.

Our students love coming up to the Smart board to drag letter tiles and spell our words during Fundations. We recently started letting the students choose between dragging tiles or writing the words with the Smartboard pens. In the future, I want to incorporate Smartboard interaction in other subject areas, as well!

This is a great idea! We have never done this in my classroom, but I will definitely do this in the future with our shared reading. I could use both my Smartboard or our projector to follow only in our stories and highlight for all the students to see at the same time!

My classroom loves Brainpop kids! We also use Storyline online for video read alouds that my students love!

In my Kindergarten classroom, there are many things that come up in discussions and lessons that students have not yet experienced or encountered in their lives. Our smart board is frequently used to quickly pull up pictures or videos for students that may need a visual aid.

Having lesson plans on the smartboard is helpful o teachers so they do not get off track, but also helpful for those students who work better when they have a schedule and routine in front of them.

I make my lesson plans on Google docs! It is easy to share with me cooperating teacher and school director. It is also easy to make edits. Lessons will also be saved in my Google drive forever.

Using technology to plan and implement lessons saves time for teachers, is more accessible and available to share and offers more visually appealing and engaging material.

This can be useful to emphasize that everyone's work does not look exactly the same, as each student will have a different project. This could be helpful for perfectionist students, teaching them to be proud of their work, even if it is different from everyone elses.

This process works for all subjects! If students have a problem with their writing, they can read it through again and make edits. If students get incorrect answer on a math equation, they can double check their answer and try again! Encouraging students to reflect and revise all of their work is very important for young learners!

Inquiry based classroom! Starting lessons off with a question, rather than a statement or assignment, allows for more creative thinking, student choice and differentiation. Students have the freedom to think of their own individual answer to the posed question and investigate and revise their idea further.

Personal connection!

Explaining and exploring the emotions of characters in stories allows students to begin to understand their own emotions. Once the students understand their own emotions, it is easier for them to empathize with their peers and teachers. It also allows for students to communicate their feelings and differentiate between good feelings and bad feelings.

I like to focus on empathize first. I find this one of the most important components of design thinking since a huge part of being a kindergarten/elementary teacher is not only teaching lessons, it is also teaching students how to be a good human being. It is important to teach students about empathy and understanding feelings at this young age.

It is important in classrooms with younger students to incorporate play into lessons. Play can be incorporated into any subject. For example, games like bingo and "I have, who has?" can be used to strengthen skills and knowledge, in a way that is fun and engaging for students.

Since this is Kindergartener's first year of elementary school, they are curious and eager to learn! Allowing students to follow that curiosity deepens student learning and makes for real experiences.