Ashley Haynes, M. Ed.

ISTE Certified Educator 2025-2028

I passed my @ISTEofficial certification! I am officially an ISTE Certified Educator!

Earners of this badge have completed extensive PD around designing, facilitating & assessing learning using technology, as well as passed a rigorous evaluation of their portfolios! 👏🏼🙌🏻🥳

I didn’t qualify to get them from insurance because “I chose to” lose my hearing after 22 & before 65 😤 Otherwise I would’ve been fully covered.

Hearing test results on iPhone with graph for left and right ear!

Technology is so cool now my AirPod 2s can double as personalized hearing aids & my family members don’t sound robotic! #gamechanger #technology #Apple

If you don’t feel this way, it’s probably never personally affected you.

Kinders using classvr headsets

& sometimes I’m crazy enough to do VR headsets & @nearpod.bsky.social with Kinder after they have had an ice cream party 2 days before their first school break 🙃 thankfully their teacher is AMAZING & they were cute 😆

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This school yr I see 21 kids weekly to work on various skills.

This year's goal is to get each kid a blanket & a game so they can practice their skills.

If you would like to help, the link to my wish list is here: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Thank you for spreading the magic! ✨

Tonight while working a family event at school I took a chance when I saw a Mom. I said “you may not remember me but I taught your son in 2nd grade at Irvin”. She said “Oh I do not but he’s in the car, we are leaving here to go to a Hornets game”. Thinking that was the end, I said “say hi” for me. 5 minutes later this whole grown kid comes and hug attacks me. We hugged for a while and he said “oh my God it’s you. I thought I lost you. You were my favorite teacher ever.” He kept going to leave because they were going to a Hornets game and then rehugging me. Naturally the tears streamed down my face. He went through hell and back his 2nd grade year in my class and still grew and was always so kind. He moved to Weddington for 3rd grade and now he’s a Senior at West Cabarrus. He didn’t know how much I needed tonight, but I’m so thankful it happened. 💙

Today I had the moment of why I have stuck with education for 11 years. I am still in disbelief. 🥹

I don’t even think it should be allowed on a platform.

How is this ok?

I find it incredibly significant and valuable I think we need to teach the skills of how to be critical of it and copyright and plagiarism like we did with Wikipedia and the likes. I don’t find it different in that light.

And by isolation I mean a lesson primarily focused on those skills but tying in curriculum so the children see the relevance! #edusky

Absolutely it’s a free AI platform for teachers created by a former teacher and principal. It takes out the scariness of prompting and it has many tools that can help with almost anything you can think of in the school day from planning to emails to behavior management and more! Check it out!

At least what I have seen we just assume now that kids have these skills or ignore the fact they have been Googling questions and copying and pasting the first line of text they see. Especially upper elementary and middle school!

Any other #IBPYP educators on BlueSky? 🌎

Ugh the way this would decrease my stress at work. Also love you and miss you bunches! 💛

No lies detected.

Yes the technology is vastly different but the skills remain the same in the classroom. Thinking critically, asking questions, discernment, putting it in their own words - all skills we have to continue to teach in isolation & with purpose.

Children playing with sphero robots

Child controlling a beebot

Let’s learn about directionality and speed with #spheros and reinforce counting with #beebots! #edtech #learnthroughdiscovery

Child using vr headset

Child using vr headset

Child using vr headset

I love doing #classvr headsets with the kids. Their reactions to being sent to different worlds beyond and inside our own never gets old! Diving into their Inquiry unit on the human body! #ibpyp

Child coding a Minecraft game on hourofcode

Child coding using kodable on hourofcode

My 3rd graders are learning to code at their own level thanks to #hourofcode! #edtech #girlswhocode

I spy 3 friends, 2 of which are coworkers 😁

What’s your favorite resource to check out when creating a newsletter for your staff on the latest and greatest in #edtech?

A3: people to learn from and grow with 🌱 #theedcollab

A1: K-5, Instructional Technology Facilitator 🤓 #theedcollab

A2: I’m overwhelmed, frustrated & always feeling on the brink of flight or fight. 😩

Love these! 💛 I love me a good anchor chart or wonder wall!

I’m confused about the hype talk surrounding AI & education especially research. It’s a tool like a book, the internet & other tools. It requires the same amount of criticism, discernment & discussion. We still need to focus on the idea of taking information and synthesizing it.

Dell AIO showing the Apple TV home screen

This was a small win today. After Apple Configurating this Apple TV I hooked it up to AIO to reset it up so it was ready to go for my teacher. 🤓 HDMI for the win! 🏅

Absolutely it would be an honor!

What made you decide to return to the classroom?