Jay Gross is speaking at a conference on communicating with students through technology. He emphasizes establishing relationships with students and inspiring them daily. He discusses how students today communicate through apps like texting, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. Gross encourages educators to take chances, step outside their comfort zones, and try new technologies with students. His goal is to help students find and share their gifts or voices through digital stories and technology.

2. Excited to be here is an
understatement…
Teach you people?
I’m one of you & hope to learn
as much if not more from you
today…

3. Our Boys…
All adopted
out of the
Central
Michigan
area…

12. Kids & Dogs… Kids & Dogs…
Establishing Relationships is so very crucial…

13. Michigan Industrial & Technology
Education Society
90th Annual Convention
May 9 – 12, 2018
Lansing, Michigan

14. Door Handles & Eyes:
Continue To Bring The
Passion!
Jay Gross
@jgross811
jaygrossproductions.org

15. So let’s get started!

16. My Fear is the same as
Al’s…

18. I want relationships first…
Second Comes:
• Technology
• Curriculum
• Testing
• Everything else

19. Jay.. Show the ‘OLD’ stuff!
Quick Time Capsule???

23. Jay… Show them the OLD
stuff!

25. I overheard a
conversation with
teens…
You use Yahoo
email?
So? My mom still uses Hotma
What’s ‘Hotmail’? Is is
dirty???

27. Cell phones
a problem?
It is how I treat
my students…
They respond
back with what
they receive…

28. When I come to a
conference…
Collaboration
Innovation
Inspiration

29. Collaboration

30. Take just a second…
Look around…
There is a saying…
“Cannot be a prophet in your
own land”

31. Shepherd’s own Mr. Owen
Russell

34. Innovation

36. Yes… I could stand here and tell you
all the things I do with technology…
TWITTER

37. Mail Track

38. Tunity

39. Run Pee

40. Online Portfolios
Kate!
Levi J Smith
Hannah Yesmunt
Rachel Travis
Jasmine Brown

42. And FINALLY…

46. But I would have to be
‘friends’ with students &
parents?
Terry Abbott… Working with the Media in a Crisis
• The Fear Factor
• Sexual Predators
• Teacher/Student relationships & texting

47. I will NOT let the less than
½% of all educators who are
sexual deviants & predators
& perverts rule my life.
Period.

48. Inspiration

49. When I come to a
conference…

50. Weddings…
Funerals…
Keynotes

51. As cool as the other side of the pill

52. My Wish Today…

53. #1 Always stop and look through our
students’ eyes
#2 Don’t be afraid to take a chance,
step out of that comfort zone, and try
something new. Innovation is DOING
new things!
#3 Inspire daily… yourself and those
around you.

54. #4 Realize this profession is a
gift…

55. Keeping positive in a
sometimes negative world…
#3 Inspire daily… yourself and those around you

56. “Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to
seize everything you ever wanted in one moment,
would you capture it or just let it slip?”
Eminem

59. Imagine for a second being a kid
in these situations…

60. Good Morning…
My name is Jay Gross. I am here today to talk to you about Communicating with today’s
students through technology. Let us take a moment and define communication. Dictionary.com
defines communication as:
 the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
 the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.
 something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted.
 a document or message imparting news, views, information, etc.
 passage, or an opportunity or means of passage, between places.
My Purpose today is give you some new ideas on how to exchange ideas with students.
 I also want you to take a chance and step outside your comfort zones.
 If there is time, I would like to tell you some stories.
 So let us now talk about technology. Dictionary.com defines technology as:
 the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their
interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial
arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
 the terminology of an art, science, etc.; technical nomenclature.
 a scientific or industrial process, invention, method, or the like.
 the sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselves with the material objects of
their civilization.
Now that we have that straight, how do students today communicate?
 Texting
 Twitter
 SnapChat
 Instagram
 FaceBook

61. Prefer Handouts???
You do yours / I’ll do mine / We’ll pass & grade when done /
Then pass forward for our teacher

63. Or Dittos???
Ah… that smell

64. My
Classroom
 Project Based
 Groups
 “Guide on the Side / Not the Sage on the
Stage”

70. Go Old School… Hallway
time!

71. Establishing
Relationships with &
through technology…

72. Every single child we come across has a
gift…
It is our mission to help them find the gift.
Help them unwrap it. Help them polish it.
Help them use it.

73. They all have voices and all of them are
yearning to be heard…
Think about this for just a second...
What are digital story technology &
apps
without a story to tell?

74. If this were my last day teaching…
What would I say to them?
What would they remember about
me?

75. I am going to curse you two
ways…

76. #1

77. #2
EYES…

81. Emergency Button!

82. This profession is a gift…
And so are our students…
So are you as an Educator…

83. Thank you.
Today has been my honor…
All my best and then some…

84. Mr. Jay Gross
Shepherd High School
jaygrossproductions.org
Twitter: jgross811
FaceBook: Jay B Gross