Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 15, 2017
Do you want to know which virtual speakers and field trips are available for your class? Use this auto-notification from Nepris for real-time updates. Click here for a step-by-step guide on how to sign up with any mobile device. . If you aren’t familiar with Nepris : It is an amazing source of experts available to meet virtually with your class.
Educators Technology
MARCH 17, 2017
March 17, 2017 Here is a vey good collection of websites for high school students curated from our archives here in EdTech and mLearning in response to requests from some our readers. Categorizing.read more.
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Amy Brown Science
MARCH 15, 2017
The Background Story: A few years ago, I wanted to do something different on the first day of school. Most of the teachers at my school, including me, were doing the same thing all daylong. Going over the course syllabus, passing out textbooks, reading the dreaded classroom rules. After one class period of this, all that the students heard was "Blah, blah, blah.
User Generated Education
MARCH 6, 2017
Yes, there are mounds of curricula students must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. Other skills must be honed, too, not the least of which is how to get along with their peers and work well with others. This is not something that can be cultivated through rote memorization or with strategically placed posters.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
The Innovative Educator
MARCH 28, 2017
Teenagers! They’re impulsive. Aggressive. Engage in risky behavior and just don’t know what’s best for them. And there’s research now that gives a reason for it too. It’s that their brains are not capable of making reasonable decisions. You know. It’s their frontal lobes that are not fully developed and that’s why they act the way they do. Or is it?
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 10, 2017
STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. These four topics cover every aspect of our life. Science is our natural world, from the land we live on to the oceans and space we aspire to visit. It’s the weather that changes our picnic plans to the natural disaster that destroyed a town in our own state. Technology includes the iPads toddlers play on, the smartphones we use to guide our days, the apps that turn our lights on and off–or start our car.
STEMx
MARCH 23, 2017
Just a few weeks ago, we unveiled. a major re-design to the STEMx website, including a major expansion to our list of. STEMx-endorsed resources. We invested in these upgrades (and devoted a full section of the resources to communications) having getting your messages heard matters. It takes serious time, practice, and energy to be heard. We aren’t done yet.
Science Teaching Junkie
MARCH 13, 2017
What Science Junkie, Kid-Loving, Education Nerd Wouldn't Love This Place?!? Science is a compilation of facts and evidence, but at the very basic core of each scientific endeavor lies imagination, exploration, discovery, and passion. All of this can be found at the Hill Country Science Mill. When I first found out about the Hill Country Science Mill in Johnson City, Texas, my inner science nerd came out!
User Generated Education
MARCH 24, 2017
I am facilitating two mini-workshops at ASCD Empower 17 and the 2017 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence on using a framework for implementating maker education activities. The description for my session is: Providing a framework for maker activities helps ensure that their use is intentional and that meaningful learning is extracted from these experiences.
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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.
The Innovative Educator
MARCH 19, 2017
When it comes to education, innovation is nothing new. Innovative models have been around but forgotten in the current climate of accountability and standardization. Before that there were models, like Montessori, that were more well known. These are models where students work on projects, learning is assessed with real-world measures, and the curriculum was customized to the student rather than standardized.
CTE Learning
MARCH 18, 2017
I remember watching this video when it first came out in 2014. Edutopia did a fantastic job of succinctly stating the key elements of a truly impactful PBL experience. Our teachers will see all that we do jump out at them as they watch this video. It is not rocket science. Nevertheless, it can include some rocket science (mmm – got me dreaming now).
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 14, 2017
I posted this last year, but it’s still valid. One addition: new activities down toward the bottom of the post. Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant Ï€ (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of Ï€ in the decimal form. Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant, holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes.
STEM Teacher Inspiration
MARCH 8, 2017
This is my DNA Evidence lecture given in a forensics class about types of evidence that contain DNA. It also describes Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and DNA Fingerprinting by electrophoresis in detail. There is also an embedded youtube video in the prezi and the powerpoint. The content in the prezi and powerpoint are identical so it is just a matter of choice for the teacher.
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These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!
Wisconsin Science and STEM Education
MARCH 21, 2017
Whether you’re at the end of the unit or want to check for understanding earlier, performance tasks provide a way to gauge students’ abilities to engage in scientific thinking and use their content knowledge. It’s difficult to truly determine their depth of understanding of a concept or their ability to create scientific models and explanations through multiple choice or brief-response questions.
STEMx
MARCH 14, 2017
With Donald Trump in the White House, what changes might be in store for education in the United States? When a new administration led by a different political party takes office in Washington, action on important issues is often difficult to predict. We asked Thomas Phillips, a congressional affairs specialist for Battelle, what the first year of the Trump presidency might mean for education: Q: In general, how do you think education policy under President Donald Trump might differ from the pol
The Innovative Educator
MARCH 3, 2017
Our president has shared that education is a civil rights issue of our time. He and his newly appointed Secretary of Education believe the solution is school choice in the form of charter schools and vouchers. While the concept makes sense at face value, when we scratch beneath the surface, it becomes clear that the solution is based on a premise riddled with misconceptions.
CTE Learning
MARCH 11, 2017
El Rancho Charter School’s Coding and 3D Video Game Design class had a developer’s meeting on Friday. Veteran Game Coding Instructor Troy Coffey invited Daniel and Steve to webinar into his class to meet with this semesters game design class. The topics discussed with some of the CTeLearning.com development team was gravity, collision and what they might expect when starting out in the coding game (no pun intended) as a new hire in a company.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 29, 2017
Summer is coming, and so is Summer Tech Learning! Join me with a great group of professionals (who will quickly become your best online friends) for one or more of these five classes on tech topics you want to learn. Note: Early Bird special for those who sign up by May 15th: Use coupon code SUMMERPD to get 10% off! There are five options, four of them detailed below: The Tech-infused Teacher.
Technology Tidbits
MARCH 21, 2017
Boogie Bot is a super-fun free app (iOS/Google Play) that teaches kids how to program/code. This is done w/ the familiar-friendly technique of dragging-and-dropping blocks of code to make your robot dance. This is great for educators introducing and teaching concepts of programming and ideal for STEM. Also, students can build their own robot, customize their dance floor, and even record their own video.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 22, 2017
The end of the school year means graduation for seniors. If they aren’t going to college, they’re job hunting. Sara Stringer, Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, has several ideas on how to make that more efficient: As a teacher, you’re fully aware of how much the world is advancing through technology. Undoubtedly, innovation has touched many aspects of how you teach.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 24, 2017
Beneylu is a K-8 online learning platform that puts critical classroom applications, resources, activities, and games in a secure online universe that is accessible to parents, teachers, and students. The goal is to make learning not only smoothly-delivered but adaptable and intriguing for everything. The brightly-colored friendly Beneylu platform provides a web-based classroom with intuitive learning resources and student-friendly apps.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 23, 2017
Using the cloud to store, share, and collaborate in the classroom is relatively new. A decade ago, accessing schoolwork from home was just about impossible. Now, it’s easy through sites like Google Drive and OneDrive. Mary Davis, a guest writer for Ask a Tech Teacher, specializes in cloud computing. Here are her thoughts on how cloud computing is transforming today’s education: Cloud computing technology is certainly having its moment these days.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 21, 2017
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #127–12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 16, 2017
Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun activities: Color the shamrock. Color the Pot-o-gold. Color the leprechaun. Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s puzzle II. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. St. Pat’s math. St. Patrick’s Day history–video.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 13, 2017
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #126: 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 9, 2017
If you’re a fan of Kiddom , the easy way to plan, assess, and analyze learning, you’ll be excited to hear that they added more than 50 features to the new Kiddom 2.0 (see my review of Kiddom ). These include: Planning — personalized curriculum to meet the changing needs of students. Reports — visualize progress with beautiful analytics that track student performance.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 3, 2017
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #119–What to do when Computers are Down?
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 20, 2017
Students learn best when they are relaxed, happy, and feeling loved. It is challenging to include those characteristics in classes when you are concurrently trying to achieve school goals, comply with curriculum timelines, juggle parent concerns, and blend your lessons with those of colleagues. This is where mindfulness becomes important. It reminds teachers that the fulcrum for learning is the student’s emotional well-being.
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