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Last Friday at Shady Grove the Tech Takeout Crew went to Shady Grove to work with around 160 4th grade students for our first Tech Takeout of the 2016-2017 school year! Tech Takeout is when a group of ITRTs travel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Third graders at Ashe Elementary are starting the school year off learning about graphing in math. Using data they collected from classmates, we worked together in creating a graph in Google Sheets. After students entered their data, they inserted a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Third graders at Ashe Elementary are starting the school year off learning about graphing in math. Using data they collected from classmates, we worked together in creating a graph in Google Sheets. After students entered their data, they inserted a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Want to rock out your classroom with incredible technology instruction? Want to experience cool collaborative vibes with other amazing educators? Well tune up your axe, grab your glowsticks, and head to Techapalooza! Techapalooza will be THE place to get some … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Want to rock out your classroom with incredible technology instruction? Want to experience cool collaborative vibes with other amazing educators? Well tune up your axe, grab your glowsticks, and head to Techapalooza! Techapalooza will be THE place to get some … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today the #TechTakeout crew headed to Dumbarton Elementary to hang out with their AMAZING 5th graders. We started out by introducing the students and their teachers to Nearpod. Mrs. Hues led the students through a Measurement Nearpod. She was able … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today the #TechTakeout crew headed to Dumbarton Elementary to hang out with their AMAZING 5th graders. We started out by introducing the students and their teachers to Nearpod. Mrs. Hues led the students through a Measurement Nearpod. She was able … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last Friday we spent the day working with 4th grade at Chamberlayne Elementary. The teachers wanted us to focus on vocabulary, specifically affixes (prefixes, root words and suffixes). We find that affixes is a weak skill across the board in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Shannon Hyman, Kaechele Elementary’s librarian, invited #TechTakeout to her AMAZING MakerFest Day to run ten different stations. Each one of the stations highlighted a tool that the students would have access to in the Kaechele Makerspace located in the library. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last Friday #TechTakeout had the pleasure of going out to Ratcliffe Elementary. We had a blast doing computation with fractions! We first started off doing a Kahoot to get everyone warmed up. It was 5 easy fraction questions, just enough … Continue reading → Continue reading →