What tech savvy teachers do...

I am in an extremely privileged position that enables me to walk in, watch, listen, learn in classrooms from K-12 in my school.  This means I get to spend time with tech savvy teachers and not so tech savvy teachers.

A few things that I have noticed with the tech savvy teachers is that they almost always:

• Research, try and link education technology to curriculum outcomes and school policy along with

  

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  strong pedagogy.
• See which tools work best for students
• Discover what global colleagues are doing through their professional learning networks by following blogs, twitter, google+ or other social media.
• Thoroughly test products and trends before they invest or implement.
• Identify goals and performance indicators
• Visit conferences either in person or online and see what others are saying and add their voice
• Share - share - share!
• Unpack the analytics, get into feedback, find out what's working and what isn't
• Constantly researching, testing and learning.