Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2022

June 4th-8th: Buy a K-8 School License. Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License. provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

At Indian Prairie School District (IPSD), located just west of Chicago, one of the crucial alignment points—a “north star,” if you will—for the district’s 35 schools is its Portrait of a Graduate profile.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Six months out from when it broke the internet, ChatGPT — and its numerous clones and adaptations — have drummed up great interest, and concerns, for teachers, school leaders and districts. They’re going to figure it out before we figure it out,” says Tracy Daniel-Hardy, director of technology at the Gulfport School District in Mississippi.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

Objectives and Steps The objectives of this lesson are (use the lines in front of each item to check them off as completed): Understand that computers can be used to visit far-away places and learn new things. _Have students return to their seats and log onto the computer. Discuss why they use a password to access the computer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2023

Why is it important to preserve historical school video recordings? How about: to preserve old recordings that are degrading with time to make them more accessible to potential viewers and researchers to increase their lifespan But what’s the best way to do this? Press play and wait for the capture device to do its job.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Once content is created, it can be deployed to mobile devices, computers, consoles, AR/VR headsets and a host of other platforms to reach its audience. Teach for Tomorrow’s Job Market Many parents want their children to study computer science. Yet, in the United States, just over half of high schools actually teach it.

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MAY 6, 2024

The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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MAY 28, 2020

They aren’t used to the homeschool aspect of remote teaching and it is a challenge to balance the needs of all of their children as well as their own personal circumstances. Today, she’s focused her considerable experience on how parents and teachers can support remote teaching. You’ll enjoy this: . Make a Schedule .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

We’re still at a very interesting place in the development of computer science education. The shortage of qualified CS teachers is becoming more acute and more and more schools and school systems attempt to expand CS education. The other thing CS teachers need to know is how to teach CS. Weird isn’t it?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

When I started teaching, syncing work between school and home was impossible. There was no way to get it into a student school drive from home. Thanks to cloud computing, that nightmare is over. Cloud Computing in the Educational Sector. We will explore them together in the next section of this article.

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Computer Science Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2022

Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. We spent a lot of design time on our various OS subsystems to make sure that access was verified and that people could only access what they were authorized to access. It was the real world.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Need for AI Literacy in Education The rapidly evolving space of artificial intelligence (AI) requires school and district leaders to make sense of how emerging technology applications, including those that use generative AI (Gen AI), are being integrated into schools and districts across the United States. What Is AI Literacy?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. I’ve noticed news stories about schools adding financial literacy to the High School course load (yay!). It is a fast-paced, interactive game that engages students in football strategy while teaching money management skills.

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Cool Cat Teacher

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.) Teaching About AI Art 1. I'm also asking my sister who is a professor at SCAD lots of questions.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, I will be sharing Part 3 of the series I've been writing about how every school needs an AI policy now, including the empirical evidence in Pa rt 1 and the Generative AI examples in Part 2. Summarize and Access Web Content First, inside Edge, you'll want to toggle on the feature that lets you access web content inside the browser.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Ballard believed that the tool required too much time for teachers to parse and leverage effectively in their teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Schools have moved many of their educational resources to the cloud.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. That’s been changing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtually every school and teacher were thrust into the edtech landscape. Louis, Missouri.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. If your school doesn’t teach a course about personal economics, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. Age group: Middle school. Age group: middle and high school. Age group: high school.

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

My school, however, purchased a subscription to Peardeck, so I had to switch and get used to a new program. But when you teach classes of 30 kids a day and barely have time to eat lunch or go to the bathroom, do you pay attention to those differences? Early on in virtual learning, I used Nearpod and got used to it.

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MAY 31, 2023

For teachers, this means providing equal access to educational experiences and ensuring that all students have the support and resources they need to succeed academically, socially and emotionally. For Mulcahy, UDL means “making sure that all of the students have an accessible way to learn.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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APRIL 24, 2019

No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Middle School. Education has changed. It didn’t work. 2nd Grade.

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CoderZ

JULY 10, 2023

As educators, we eagerly anticipate the start of a new school year while using our summer break to recharge and prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead. In this article, we will explore how embracing flexibility and innovation can enhance your robotics and computer science classes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 4, 2015

I got a lot of suggestions based on my post, What to do When the Computers Are Down in January. Even without internet access, if you had Laptops, they could create Documents using Microsoft Word. I know there are stories ( Arthur’s Computer Disaster, The Magic School Bus Gets Programmed ) that you could read to the students.

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CoderZ

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In recent years, the landscape of education in the United States has been undergoing a profound transformation, particularly when it comes to Computer Science (CS) education in K-12 schools. As technology continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace, there is a growing demand for a workforce with strong computer science skills.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Doing so involves leveraging research rooted in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) — a systematic inquiry into student learning to improve teaching practices — and analyzing insights that have been drawn from academic and institutional data. To advance the teaching and learning experience.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

I made DIVAA, the Digital Interactive Virtual AP Assistant to help my AP Computer Science Principles with Python and AP Content. I don't think that my students who do not subscribe to chat GPT will be able to access the custom GPT I have made, that is why I'm testing it. Then, I'll treat it like a teaching assistant. (I

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In Part 1 of “ Why Every School Needs and AI Policy Right Now ,” I shared the empirical evidence about Artificial Intelligence and how it is impacting our world and schools. To know the words is to be able to create the art.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

This approach can be used in any discipline and for any school age even if Maths is particularly suitable for this type of teaching. You can use crossword puzzles or word searches created for instance with LearningApps to obtain a keyword at the end of the game to use as a password to access the following scene.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. And when women and men came into that environment, women reported a lot less interest in computer science than men. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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