History of Google

  • Founded in 1998
  • Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
    • Sergey went to Stanford and Larry was considering attending in 1995
  • The two started creating in their dorm rooms → originally called “Backrub” 

Our Inquiry

  • We intend to become certified Google Educators
  • As future teachers, we think it would be beneficial to be able to better navigate this technology and know ways to implement it in a classroom
  • We have seen  many Google tools being used in schools and hope to be able to contribute our own knowledge in any class we may be placed in

Our Inspiration

  • Emma, a practicing teacher and one of our seminar leaders from last semester, is a google innovator and encouraged all of us to pursue this educational pathway

Google For Education: Teacher Center

  • This website provides us with the information that we need in order to train for becoming Google Educators Level 1.
  • The Fundamentals Training part of the website will prepare us with modules and lessons that will show us how to integrate google into our future classrooms. We will go more in-depth into this section in our next blog post
  • We can study for the test using sample questions

Potential Downfalls of Becoming Google Educators Level 1

  • We could have tunnel-vision and only use google suite apps. By doing this, we may not explore other helpful apps and technologies.