Join our UEN Professional Development team in exploring some of the best edtech tools available to educators in the videos below!

In this week's newsletter, you will find:

• UENVideo with Teacher Tips, Students in Focus, PDTV, UOSL Shorts, and GEGUtah
• UEN Homeroom Podcast: New episode on Location and Digital Equity
• Course Spotlight on UCET / UELMA Book Club
• eMedia Hub Spotlight: Physical Education Hub
• Upcoming Professional Development opportunities from UCET, UELMA, UCTM, and Edcamps
• Resource Share: Common Sense Media Artificial Intelligence Literacy Lessons

Online discussions can be a secret weapon for creating engaging lessons. In this video, Dani shares practical tips to ignite student engagement, encourage participation and deepen understanding.

In this episode of Students In Focus, you'll meet some remarkable students using film as a medium to express their thoughts and emotions about the world around them. This episode features a poetic documentary, a stop-motion animation and a personal narrative.

In this episode of UEN's PDTV, we travel to Middle Canyon Elementary in Tooele to meet Abish Jimenez, a 3rd-grade Spanish DLI teacher who is transforming Chromebooks in her classroom into tools for collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking. Watch to see how her students thrive in a technology-rich learning environment.

Today's lesson: Martin Luther King Jr.'s incredible legacy. Let's explore, learn and honor the vision of this iconic leader together using Gale In Context!

Join GEGUtah for its January Meetup!

Welcome back to UEN Homeroom!

In this episode of UEN Homeroom, Dani and Matt discuss the impact of geographic location on access to technology and the internet in Utah. Listen now!

Join UCET & UELMA for a statewide book club on a series of books from speakers at our 2024 conference: Donalyn Millers’ The Book Whisperer, Richard Culatta’s Digital for Good, and Carl Hooker’s Learning Evolution. Participants will engage in a series of asynchronous discussions and will develop a learning environment implementation project based on their chosen books. To receive credit, participants must complete two of the three books/modules and all work associated with that book. UCET & UELMA will also offer synchronous virtual discussion groups in January-March 2024 with participants. Books are to be purchased by the educator.

Register for any course using the links below!

The new Physical Education hub has been published in eMedia! Created in collaboration with USBE, the hub features grade level resource collections and collaborative groups. Be sure to explore the PE lesson plans contributed by Utah PE educators!

The UEN Professional Development Team is excited to come to your school and work with your teachers on a variety of topics ranging from podcasting to Minecraft, digital literacy, or a variety of technology tools (Adobe, Nearpod, Google, Canvas, Canva, Utah's Online Library, and eMedia) and more. Request Free Professional Development

Common Sense Media has some great resources for educators who are learning about Artificial Intelligence including a series of eight lessons that explore AI Literacy in 6-12 classrooms. From their site:

"Quick, grab-and-go lessons to help your students think critically about AI and its impact.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world we live in. From using generative AI for schoolwork to dealing with misinformation and befriending AI chatbots, students have a lot to consider when it comes to this ever-evolving technology.

This collection of quick lessons (20 minutes or less!) provide an introduction to AI and help address its social and ethical impacts. Through these lessons, students will:

• Understand what AI is and how it works
• Consider some of its potential benefits and risks
• Think critically about how we can be responsible and ethical users of AI"

Check out the lessons at the link below!

Learn more about Utah Education Network including our free professional development courses, media productions, professional development at your school, and more at UEN's website.

Email: training@uen.org
Website: https://www.uen.org/
Location: 101 South Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Phone: (800) 866-5852
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UtahEducationNetwork
Twitter: @UENnews