Using Evernote for Literacy Instruction

This screencast was created to present four ideas for how teachers and students can use Evernote during the K-5 literacy block. The content shared here started our staff's fourth and final tech night of the year.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzc1_nGlHNE]

While this quick tutorial was nice for considering what's possible, we really appreciated our Skype guest Cathy Mere (@cathymere), author of More Than Guided Reading (Stenhouse, 2005). She took a lot of time answering our questions about technology in the elementary classrooms, such as "How do get your 1st graders to become so independent with the iPads?" (The answer: Shared demonstration)

While I can talk about technology use in the classroom, Cathy and my teachers are doing it, every day. That the work they do is grounded in strong literacy instruction makes all the difference. Their approach in considering how digital tools can best support and augment student learning is the right approach.