Have you ever met a teacher that had too much planning and nothing to do?

Me neither.

We fill our planning times and the cracks in between being extremely busy with a litany of time-consuming tasks. That’s why administrators and instructional coaches like myself need to give teachers time to just play around with all of the newest tools in a Tech Sandbox format. Just giving teachers a little time to figure this stuff out can do wonders to building a community of digitally literate educators.

Try it yourself! Dive into the Tech Sandbox with these 5 cool tech tools.

1. Try TodaysMeet

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Try TodaysMeet, posted by my “Fake Student” named .Sandbox on my school’s Seesaw PD account.

2. Try Visuwords

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Try Visuwords, a visual thesaurus.

3. Try Wordclouds

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Try wordclouds, and think about how you could use this to improve student learning

4. Try Making a Chatbot

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Try making a Chatbot during your sandbox time

5. Try A Web Whiteboard

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How could you use this tool to get kids collaborating and improve student learning?

Did you enjoy your Sandbox Time as much as I enjoyed making it?

If you haven’t already, check out @SGroshell TPT, and follow us on Twitter.

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Published by Zach Groshell

Zach Groshell, PhD is a highly distinguished teacher, instructional coach, and education consultant. Zach is based in the Seattle area and works with schools around the globe to develop high quality instruction based on the science of how kids learn. Zach hosts the podcast, Progressively Incorrect, and is the author of Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching.