Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

What there is is a teacher not afraid to try new ways, test them out in a classroom environment, toss what doesn’t work and share the rest. Her/his success doesn’t come without lots of failure and mistakes, widgets that sounded good but were too complicated or non-intuitive for a 21st century classroom. Why do this?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

3 Fun Ways to Use Tech in the Classroom in the Run-Up to Summer Summer is right around the corner and as a teacher, you might be in search of creative ways to leverage technology to ensure your classroom remains an entertaining, engaging and educational space. Fear not, we’ve got you covered! Let’s dive in!

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A study published in the journal AERA Open found that students earn better marks in college STEM courses when those classrooms have higher percentages of students who are underrepresented racial minorities or the first in their families to participate in higher education.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, Jesse Lubinsky, a former classroom teacher and education evangelist for Adobe, shares 10 awesome free ways that teachers can use Adobe Express in their classrooms. – Vicki, your podcast host and friendly fellow classroom teacher.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 23, 2022

Classroom culture defines your classroom. You can feel a classroom culture, but what is a classroom culture? How do you build a positive classroom culture? In this show, Andrew Sharos, author of Finding Lifelifes: A Practical Tale about Teacher and Mentors , shares how to create a thriving classroom culture.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

Messages in classrooms and how discipline is handled can also play a role, he adds. Teachers know that a huge predictor of whether they're able to achieve their goals in the classroom is that the class is well ordered and on task. They think, ‘Is there something wrong with me? Kids who are misbehaving are threatening to that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has written a great article on behavioral learning in the classroom. Knowledge of behavioral theory empowers educators to create tailored strategies enhancing both classroom management and students’ performance efficiently. These can be exchanged later for rewards, instilling a sense of accomplishment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 20, 2022

More about tech skills in the classroom. Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer science jobs are projected to grow 13% between 2020 and 2030. Still, less than half of all K-12 schools in the U.S. teach computer science as part of the curriculum. Digital Literacy–Too Important to Skip. How to Assess Digital Literacy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

As a professor of practice whose goal is to prepare preservice teachers to lead their own classrooms, how do I ensure that these preservice teachers know math content well and feel equipped and prepared to teach math to students? My answer: an immersive, 15-credit-hour semester of math. Mistakes are valuable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2022

If you use Google Classroom, here’s a list, created by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Scott Winstead: How to Clean Up Google Classroom for the Summer. For many, this means cleaning out classrooms and organizing materials for the next year. Step 2: Clean up your Classroom folder. I know, it sounds like a pain.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve used flipped classrooms in my Middle School classes. After the initial excitment that somthing changed, it fell into a routine with not much better results than any other teaching method. But not worse, either. I tossed it into the category of something to try when whatever I was using didn’t work.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. The benefits of playing in the classroom are becoming more obvious.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2022

Our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has some interesting thoughts on mainstreaming this in your classroom: How to Encourage Creativity in the Classroom: Best Tips to Inspire Your Students. Now, apply this idea to the classroom and ask your students to come up with solutions to a simple problem. Problem-Solving with Multiple Solutions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 31, 2022

They offer lots of videos from the classroom, showing teachers at work, but also well thought out discussions on topics that impact education. Either way, let’s drive into what it means to be mindful, including ways to use mindfulness in your classroom (in the midst of chaos). This one is on mindfulness. What is Mindfulness?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? This has left less room to focus on the things we know matter most like relationship-building, social-emotional development and building a respectful, inclusive classroom community. I’ve seen a number of them and they’ve all had a different vibe.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2023

What can you do to make things work better in the classroom with simple fixes? How The Classroom Environment Shapes Understanding of Cause and Effect Relationships Mastering cause-and-effect relationships in research is crucial for a student’s academic future and career. How do teaching methods influence understanding?

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Middle Web

APRIL 1, 2024

Debbie Silver offers six strategies educators can use to create classrooms that foster resiliency. The post Build a Classroom That’s Resilience-Friendly first appeared on MiddleWeb. All students can learn how to pick up the pieces after they face adversity, disappointment, loss, or trauma and go on.

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Educators Technology

MAY 10, 2022

Online classroom timers are web-based tools to use in your class to measure time. These tools have a number of pedagogical benefits. Using timers with students will absolutely help them develop an.read more.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2022

The debate about mobile phones in the classroom can get heated. Others push to ban cell phones from the classroom altogether. Two years ago, English Language Arts teacher Tyler Rablin promoted cell phone use in the classroom, encouraging his students to bring their phones to class. He’s had a change of heart.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 12, 2024

If you're doing collaborative projects and design in your classroom, you'll get practical ideas for how you can modify your projects to encourage collaboration and real-world learning. Are they doing it with like post-it note brainstorming on the board or how's that coming about in classrooms? Stream by clicking here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. I, like many teachers, liked to promote the excellent work taking place in my classroom so other colleagues could view my students’ work. Classroom Use. How many followers do you have?

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JULY 3, 2023

In fact, our top pieces all address the reality that plenty of educators are thinking of leaving the classroom behind. But some are following through; they’re walking out of their classrooms and away from the careers they thought they’d have for life.” What’s It Like to Leave the Classroom for a Job in Edtech? Who I am is gone.’”

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Let's look at what is happening and a classroom application where there is one. I'll also share stories from my classroom and how we're using AI if it applies. This blog post includes eight use cases of Generative AI impacting classrooms and schools now. Perspectives as a classroom teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

AI-powered quiz builders are revolutionizing modern classrooms, transforming traditional teaching methods into captivating, gamified learning adventures. Imagine a classroom where students are glued to their seats, laser-focused on interactive quiz games displayed on the smartboard.

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Accelerate Learning

APRIL 5, 2024

Discover effective strategies for building a strong math community in your classroom. Explore ways to engage students in Math and enhance their learning experience.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 19, 2023

My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Welcome to an extended episode focusing on AI!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is a great article for new teachers who might not have seen the traditional classroom experience. One teacher offers tips to help new starters who did their training in lockdown to feel at home in their classroom: New Teachers: 10 Ways to Claim Your Classroom Space. Here’s my advice. New Tech Teacher? I Understand You.

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Accelerate Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2022

You too can create a STEM classroom where students are actively engaged in collaborating to solve problems using creativity and critical thinking.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Groven made the point during a recent panel discussion about how best to encourage viewpoint diversity in classrooms, hosted by the Free Speech Project , a nonpartisan initiative run by Georgetown University. And this seeps into the college culture within the context of a classroom. They're the most important thing that I think about.

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Educators Technology

JULY 10, 2022

Bouncy Balls is a free web tool that helps you manage your classroom noise. Bouncy Balls has an integrated noise meter that automatically detects different noise levels in surrounding.read more.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 4, 2023

Outline of: Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better Sponsor: Research Quest Introducing Tom Mullaney What is Figma? Click Here Sponsor Episode 804 - 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better What is Figjam? What is Figjam?

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Welcome to today's episode, where I will bridge the gap between AI in my classroom and your ears! Let's continue this AI adventure together as we work to improve our classrooms and educate a successful generation for tomorrow. You’ll be glad you did.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2022

I think you’ll enjoy this: Coping with COVID in the Classroom. Over Spring Break we set up Google Classroom pages, learned how to do Zoom, and created packets of papers for students’ families to pick up and drop off outside the school weekly. I’ve missed that classroom community—it’s so good to get some of it back!

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today we'll dive deep into the transformative power of data analytics for your classroom! Importance of Data in Education 00:00:50:00 – 00:01:00:13 : Vicki Davis emphasizes the importance of data analytics in making classrooms more effective.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Recently, I introduced voice interactions with ChatGPT in my classroom using a Custom GPT that I made. This tool, tailored for educational purposes, has opened up new avenues for learning and interaction in my classroom. The transparency of this system ensured I could monitor all interactions, aligning with classroom safety standards.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This is a major shift as the district’s existing preschool program is typically served from one portable classroom at several elementary school sites. All of the classrooms have sliding glass doors that open directly into a protected courtyard, shaded by the tree canopies.

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Box Light

AUGUST 31, 2023

When it comes to diverse classrooms, effective communication reigns supreme. Enter classroom audio tools – the superheroes ensuring every student hears and engages. Delve into the significance of classroom audio and uncover five actionable strategies to utilize audio tech for inclusivity.

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