Tools That Teach: Google, Canva & Interactive Tech for Today's Classroom

IGC 724

Fee: $675 ($575 Early Bird)

TBD

Earns 3 Graduate Credits through Gordon College (Equals 22.5 pdps)

This course equips Massachusetts educators with practical skills in the educational technology tools most widely used in today's K–12 classrooms — Google Workspace for Education, Canva for Education, and a curated selection of interactive engagement platforms. Participants build fluency in these tools through hands-on practice and develop a principled approach to technology integration.

Use Google Workspace for Education tools — including Classroom, Docs, Slides, Forms, and Drive — to manage, differentiate, and enhance classroom instruction.
Apply Canva for Education to design professional-quality instructional materials, student resources, and classroom visual displays.
Select and implement interactive engagement platforms (including Pear Deck, Kahoot!, Quizizz, and Flipgrid) to increase student participation and formative assessment.
Evaluate digital tools for equity, accessibility, student data privacy, and alignment to learning objectives before classroom implementation.
Design a technology-integrated lesson or unit that enhances rather than replaces sound pedagogical practice.