Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There seems to be a limitless supply of online education content. In fact, my email box and social media explodes with them. But often, these offerings are too basic, a lite version of a paid program that isn’t terribly robust, confusing, or created by people who don’t really understand how to blend technology and education. As a busy teacher, I want resources that are clear, easy-to-use, accessible by all types of students, scalable, and fun.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 3, 2017

October 3, 2017 Comic strips can be a great way to engage students in a wide variety of multimedia enriched learning activities. Using group work, you can assign each group with a writing or digital.read more.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 5, 2017

We are well into the 2017/18 school year and that means it is time to focus on ideas, tips and strategies for using tech to effectively connect with families. #NYCSchoolTech teacher Eileen Lennon (@eileen_lennon) moderates with me throwing in my two cents. You can prepare for the conversation by thinking about answers to these questions: Q1. Share tech tools you have used to connect with parents.

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CTE Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. She believed her tormenters’ horrid insults, never thought she could find a way to stop them, and killed herself. She’s not the only one. In fact, according to the anti-bullying website NoBullying.com , 52 percent of young people report being cyberbullied and over half of them don’t report it to their parents.

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Informed K12

OCTOBER 6, 2017

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Reading Racer is a free new iOS app that I just had the pleasure of reviewing. This is an excellent easy-to-use app that uses the mobile device's microphone to "listen" as a student speaks the words on the screen. This is really innovative and separates Reading Racer from other educational apps on the market. Reading Racer is designed for kids ages 5-8 and uses speech recognition as the user speaks the words/sentences as fast as they can.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Here are the most-read posts for the month of September: A New Typing Website With a Twist. Building Digital Citizens–the Class. Great list of Top Education Blogs. 20 Websites and 3 Posters to Teach Mouse Skills. 4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom. 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2017

October 5th-15th: Building Digital Citizens. $10 off! with coupon code: BDC10. Usually: $29.97. Now: $19.97. Click here for more information.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 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: #77–Use BCC to Hide Email Addresses.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Owl Eyes is an innovative site that lets teachers create "classrooms" where their students can read and interact w/ texts. Student's are able to select through a wide variety of literature and then annotate the text. This is helpful as they can take notes and pickup right where they left off when reading. Best of all, the teacher tools allows educators to create quizzes to assess how students are doing and they can even track/manage their student accounts.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sketch Nation the simple to use mobile (iOS/Android) app/site for creating games recently updated their lesson plan ideas page. This is a great place for educators to go to find ways on how to integrate Sketch Nation into their classroom. These lesson ideas focus on a wide variety of subjects such as: Coding, History, Math, and more. Sketch Nation makes it a seamless way to introduce STEM into their classroom in a fun and engaging way.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 4, 2017

WittyWe is a new site I just found out about from Monica Burn's amazing blog. WW reminds me of q more robust version of BrainBop and is a excellent place to find online courses/educational videos on a wide range of topics (i.e. Math, Health, Science, etc.) These animated lessons (5-10 min in length) are designed for El Ed kids through college and can be accessed on any device.

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