Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 8, 2024

January 8th-11th the 53-page PDF, “25 Digital Tools for the Classroom” for free! “25 Digital Tools for the Classroom” is a thorough discussion on which are the most useful tools in a K-8 classroom. This includes popular digital tools such as blogs, backchannel devices, vocabulary decoding tools, avatars, digital portfolios, digital notetaking, as well as others you may not have thought of.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A couple of years ago, Kelly Spoon decided to experiment with her assessment practices. A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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STEM Next

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s a New Year and a great time to celebrate the power of role models and mentors. STEM role models help strengthen important outcomes for kids, including increased positive attitudes about STEM, increased positive STEM identities, and increased STEM career knowledge. In fact, role models and mentors are a key pillar of STEM Next’s success with the Million Girls Moonshot , which has reached almost 3 million youth across the country in just three years.

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Middle Web

JANUARY 8, 2024

As she works on a grant proposal to fund an update of her classroom furniture, Kathleen Palmieri shares what she’s learned from researching how students benefit from flexible learning environments, including boosts in creativity, engagement, collaboration, focus and achievement. The post Flexible Seating Creates Vibrant Learning Spaces first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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The Maker Mom

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence is the future and kids can prepare by learning all about it now while the technology is still in the early stages. It’s always going to be a skill in high demand, especially as AI grows and becomes a more integral part of everyday life. As with any in-demand skill that involves technology, there is an abundance of online learning classes kids can learn from.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 8, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we start this year, each of us is in different circumstances. I rebel against anyone with a “one size fits all” plan that works for everybody. Each of us has a different approach to life and planning. As I do my planning, I spend time learning from others.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2024

Managing student data is a major challenge for districts across the nation. Educational institutions grapple with an overload of edtech products, creating a disjointed landscape where these tools fail to communicate effectively. This not only hampers coordination but also jeopardizes the data privacy of both staff and students. The Ed-Fi standard is a solution to help organize a universe of messy data through interoperability, providing benefits that range from state reporting to preventing over

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