What's in their tech stack? Steven O.

Steven Olson teaches 6th grade social studies at Noblesville East Middle School. Here is his tech stack!

✨ Brisk
Steven recently turned to Brisk to generate a project rubric. He proofread and changed the wording in places, but was overall impressed with the result. He likes how Brisk integrates so seamlessly with Google Docs and sees himself using it more in the second semester.

📒 NotebookLM
NotebookLM has been a dream for creating short videos to help his students understand big social studies topics. First, he generates a summary of the topic in MagicSchool by entering key vocabulary, dates, and people. Then he pastes the summary into NotebookLM. To quote Steve, NotebookLM has "incredible capabilities."

👾 Quizlet & Wayground
Reading Peter Brown's Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning years ago shifted Steven's thinking about the value of repetitive practice in the classroom. Steven is now a fan of using Quizlet or Wayground as a warmup for the first 5 minutes of classes, 1-2x/week.

🗂️ Google Chrome
Steven joked about the number of tabs open on his laptop when I visited. Here are some of the sites he regularly visits to support student learning: World A to Z, CNN 10, Digital Inquiry Group, and Civic Online Reasoning

🤖 BrainPopSteven knows he can always count on BrainPop to introduce or reinforce a complex topic in kid-friendly language. He often links to BrainPop videos in his unit materials for students.


Are you willing to share your tech stack? Send me an email. I'd love to feature you!

Kristin Patrick, Blended Learning Coach