A NEW TEACHERS PERSPECTIVE ON ED TECH

My guest is McKenna Akane 

McKenna is the author of a recent article in eSchool News entitled A New Teacher’s Perspective: Today’s Best EdTech Resources.  That article can be found here: https://www.eschoolnews.com/digital-learning/2024/06/14/new-teachers-perspective-student-engagement/

, a first year educator from Alberton School District in Montana and is a winner of Discovery Educations Educator  Award  CONGRATS MCKENNA and here's why : She designs lessons that are interactive, relevant, and meaningful by connecting classroom concepts to real-world applications and experiences. Whether through field trips, guest speakers, or project-based learning activities, she helps students see the practical implications of what they are learning, sparking their curiosity and engagement. Mrs. Akane has developed a proposal for a Virtual Reality (VR) project and curriculum that will truly revolutionize the way students across the country learn and interact with Montana’s Indigenous community. Working together with the University of Montana, Blackfoot Communications, and several other local partnerships, she has developed a K-12 project to provide meaningful Indian Education for All experiences. Utilizing high-powered computers and 360-degree cameras, students will reach out to Montana First Nations to record language, cultural traditions, ceremonies, and document tribal history from different Nations. In partnership with a VR education company, her students will then create VR lessons and tours and upload them to the company’s course offerings where other students across the world will be able to connect and interact with Montana’s Indigenous People virtually.