Francis Jim Tuscano

As an education technology specialist and consultant, Jim is passionate about designing transformative learning experiences in the classroom. He leads school leaders and educators in exploring how technology can support authentic and relevant assessment, provide efficient classroom management, and amplify student achievement. As an educator, his students are his compass in this great adventure of changing the landscape of education. He has been a Religious and Values Education (Christian Life Ed) teacher at the Grade School Unit of Xavier School - Philippines since 2009. Becoming a 1:1 iPad teacher was a product of his desire to bring innovation into the traditional subject content he is currently teaching and to engage his students into a deeper and more meaningful reflection into their learnings and experiences. Today, he is one of the heads of the 1:1 Program Committee of the Grade School unit in Xavier School. As an advocate of Ed Tech integration in learning and teaching, he speaks in conferences, designs and facilitates seminar-workshops and trainings for teachers. He is also a blogger and a writer/ contributor to a local publishing company website dedicated to technology integration in learning and teaching. He is a member of the global community of Apple Distinguished Educators, Class of 2015, Google Certified Educator, and Book Creator and SeeSaw apps ambassador.

Kids Can! Innovation Camp Project Recognized Internationally!

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Kids Can! Innovation Camp, education project of Francis Jim Tuscano recognized at the HundrED’s Spotlight on Sustainability as one of the world’s most inspiring innovations to educate youth on how to help save the planet https://youtu.be/3PYEsDIXF5Y Kids Can! Innovation Camp, created by Francis Jim Tuscano, department chair and edtech coach at Xavier School, and first [...]

(New and Old) Literacies for Well-Rounded Learner of the Future

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For the past decades or so, reading, writing, and mathematics (arithmetic), referred to as the 3R’s, have taken a back seat. The basic skills or building blocks that underpin learning have been often equated with traditional school setting where knowing is defined as the ability to read, write, and solve math problems. In understanding the [...]