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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Maybe the cord that connects the keyboard to the computer is loose or fell out. Sometimes the stuff in the computer’s boot-up sequence that makes the keyboard work gets lost.

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MAY 6, 2024

The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has come up with a foundational list of tips for teaching coding. Share in comments what your secret techniques are: 6 Tips for Teaching Kids Coding If you were around when the internet first came out, you may have seen how coding was a career for specialized professionals.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging. They are invested in teaching their classes and suddenly it seems impossible to meet yearly goals, build lifelong learners. Curricula for online teaching. That’s not what happens in online teaching. Access the required site through mobile devices.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Some Typical Prompts for AI Art Generation Additionally, I've bought some books on artistic styles and terminologies because knowing the words to use is part of making AI art generation accessible to our students (and ourselves.) I'm also asking my sister who is a professor at SCAD lots of questions. Teaching About AI Art 1.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Another teacher found that utilizing an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that was cloud-based gave her students round-the-clock access to work in their programming class instead of relying on a downloaded file to a school computer. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. T4Edtech #edtech.

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MARCH 31, 2023

This is one that isn’t connected to your local computer so can’t be compromised if you get a virus. It’s good to always backup data to cloud drives or a different drive on your computer but once a year, do the entire collection of data files to what is called an ‘air gap’ drive–one that is separated from any internet connection.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

When I started teaching, syncing work between school and home was impossible. Thanks to cloud computing, that nightmare is over. Cloud Computing in the Educational Sector. And yet, cloud computing for school and universities wasn’t a top priority less than a decade ago. Opportunities, Benefits, and Progress.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If you teach online, you know what I mean. The ease with which it differentiates for student needs, focuses on what’s important (which rarely is a due date), and provides much-needed flexibility has changed the way many of us teach our physical classes. Good online instructors are what we always wished teaching would be.

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MARCH 29, 2022

If your school doesn’t teach personal economics but would like to, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. It is a fast-paced, interactive game that engages students in football strategy while teaching money management skills. Websites that Teach Your Kids About Money. Here are some I like.

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JULY 18, 2023

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. During my one-score-and-seven-years of teaching, I’ve discovered if I keep the geeky stuff to a max of 2-3 steps, students remember it, embrace it, and use it.

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MARCH 31, 2022

This is one that isn’t connected to your local computer so can’t be compromised if you get a virus. You might even make more than one backup to external storage devices and keep the two copies in different places (providing protection and access to your data even if one of the backup devices is destroyed or inaccessible.

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JULY 25, 2023

Modern Tools and Techniques for Math Teachers Nothing teaches one how to become a math teacher quite like modern technology. And if you’re looking to enroll in one of the online teaching certification programs available, learning how to use technology while teaching will seem like a natural next step.

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JULY 29, 2022

I published this about a year ago and have updated it to reflect our current teaching environment. The most dependable method of accessing resources is through programs preloaded onto the local computer or available as PDFs that are easily shared. PDFs are easily accessed. PDFs are always available. You own it.

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MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. Greg Walton: Sapna Cheryan, a professor at University of Washington, has done work on gender and belonging issues. What’s an example?

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JULY 27, 2023

EdSurge talked with professors in a variety of disciplines to dig into what they’re trying as they teach summer classes or prepare for the fall. The race to outsmart artificial intelligence is on as educators try to prevent the coming semester from devolving into, as one professor put it, a “ homework apocalypse.”

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JUNE 18, 2019

A Denial of Service — a DoS – is defined as: “…an interruption in an authorized user’s access to a computer network…” If I’m the “authorized user” and my brain is the “computer network”, this happens to me often. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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MARCH 12, 2019

As a teacher on a mission to infuse technology into my classes, I’m often surprised how often technology can be applied to teaching and life. A Denial of Service — a DoS – is defined as: “…an interruption in an authorized user’s access to a computer network…”. 10 Bits of Wisdom I Learned from my Computer (ten more).

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APRIL 24, 2019

This used to mean limiting access to the Internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) to discourage students from using an infinite and fascinating resource. Best practices now suggest that instead of cocooning students, we teach them to be good digital citizens , confident and competent. It didn’t work.

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APRIL 6, 2020

If your school doesn’t teach a course about personal economics, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. Banzai is a personal finance curriculum that teaches high school and middle school students how to prioritize spending decisions through real-life scenarios and choose-. Here are fifteen I like.

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MARCH 23, 2017

A decade ago, accessing schoolwork from home was just about impossible. 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.

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APRIL 11, 2019

I’ve been teaching technology for over fifteen years. While student familiarity with this tool has improved, one thing that never varies is the myths surrounding teaching with it. The New York Post reported in 2018 that as many as 5 million schoolage children have no Internet access. You don’t have to teach keyboarding.

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JUNE 2, 2022

It is perfect for private schools, independent schools, charter schools, public schools–any school with multiple computer labs, classroom computer pods, 1:1 programs. provide access to full text PDF (or videos where relevant) from every digital device in your school, 24 hours a day. Benefits of a School License.

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MARCH 30, 2021

This is one that isn’t connected to your local computer so can’t be compromised if you get a virus. You might even make more than one backup to external storage devices and keep the two copies in different places (providing protection and access to your data even if one of the backup devices is destroyed or inaccessible.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Her premise was that a key link between professors and students was broken. Specifically, she felt that emails between professors and students led to inequalities when it came to which students understood material or got clarifications on how to do assignments. She called her startup Piazza. program at Stanford University.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. Teaching is hard.

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MARCH 30, 2020

This is one that isn’t connected to your local computer so can’t be compromised if you get a virus. You might even make more than one backup to external storage devices and keep the two copies in different places (providing protection and access to your data even if one of the backup devices is destroyed or inaccessible.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Any device such as a smart TV, computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. First, the website will request your IP address, information about your computer, your location, and more. Additionally, it can help unlock content unavailable in any other region, giving travelers more access to sites, music, and videos than they could before.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Our class has no prerequisites.

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APRIL 25, 2023

Bir, who’s now a freshman studying computer science at Diablo Valley College in California, could relate. “As For Christopher Faidley, a middle school computer science teacher who once taught advanced technology to Bir, it’s a place to send inquisitive parents. “I I know directories exist, like, students have access to libraries.

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MARCH 7, 2023

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. If nothing works, reboot.

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MARCH 19, 2020

My inbox–probably yours, too–is flooded with suggestions, how-tos, and don’t-do’s, on teaching online as a strategy for dealing with Covid-19. I’m an adjunct professor – online only–for a variety of major universities (CSU for one). 7 Ways to Keep Teaching. Resources for Teaching Online –from Edublog.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

we have a access to our income streams on our digital devices. Any moderately-talented hacker can access your computer’s webcam and microphone remotely. There are numerous hacker videos showing how they can hack into your computer in about three minutes when you’re on free WiFi. 2-step Authentication.

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MAY 15, 2023

Technologists have long dreamed of this vision of a “computer-assisted” tutor. In fact, Patrick Suppes, a Stanford University philosophy professor and pioneer of computerized tutoring, said in 1966 that students would someday have “the personal services of a tutor as well informed and as responsive as Aristotle.” So how can that work?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. ByteLearn.com – Digital math teaching assistant for teachers. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Final thoughts.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Colleges offer countless possibilities for networking both with professors who are experts in your field and with fellow students. At first glance, it seems that programmers, software developers and other tech professionals need little more than a computer with an Internet connection to develop their skills.

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MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Good intentions to give all students access to the world’s knowledge were derailed by the cost of the websites and webtools that made that happen. Access this catalog via the website. Access this collection via the website.

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