February, 2016

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4 Web Tools To Create Newspapers and Flyers for Your Class

Educators Technology

February 26, 2016 Below is a collection of some very good web tools you can use with your students to create educational posters,flyers, brochures, and newspapers.The tools are simple and easy to use.read more.

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3 Whiteboard Apps for Teachers and Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Whiteboards have long been a de rigeur staple in classrooms, occupying pride-of-place at the front of the room. Despite the popularity of hi-tech Smartscreens, the simple whiteboard remains the favored method of sharing information during class time. But one change has revolutionized their use: They can now be projected from your iPad. Before introducing three amazing must-have whiteboard apps, let me note that there are dozens of options , all with varied traits and prices.

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Doing Things at School That Can’t Be Done At Home

User Generated Education

Many kids and teens are spending a lot of their time doing solitary screen-related activities. This most often occurs at home with their own devices. We are also living in an age where practically any and all content can be found via the Internet. The educator is no longer the gatekeeper to information. Internet resources can present and teach content better than a lecturing educator.

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10 #EdTech Tools Teachers Can Use to Strengthen Relationships with Students & Parents

The Innovative Educator

Educators know that when it comes to building relationships, class size and the number of students per teacher matter. While class size is certainly an issue for elementary school students, it becomes even harder for secondary school teachers who may have 150 students or more. Consider that students have 1, 2, or more parents or guardians each, and we’re talking about a lot of people!

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Forensics: Virtual Autopsy Activity

STEM Teacher Inspiration

This is a great virtual autopsy activity for a Forensics course or unit on pathology or anatomy. Students visit a website that has 18 different examples of autopsies with lab results for each body system. Students record all relevant information and then try to determine the cause of death. This can be used as an introduction to the unit, as an activity within the unit, or even as a great sub plan!

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9 Great Books on The Impact of Technology on Learning and Cognition

Educators Technology

February 4, 2016 We are living in an age of distraction par excellence. The tumult of digital noise is surrounding us all day long dividing our attentiveness and making us think in short bursts of.read more.

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A Conversation about Keyboarding, Methods, Pedagogy, and More

Ask a Tech Teacher

Dr. Bill Morgan and I have engaged in several months of spirited conversation about keyboarding, pre-keyboarding, and how it can best serve students. Bill is the brilliant creator of Keyboarding Arts and the giant floor keyboard for classrooms. His experience teaching keyboarding often informs me in my art as I adapt to the ever-changing needs of the students in my classes.

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Natural Verus Unnatural Learning

User Generated Education

There is a huge disconnect between how people learn naturally and how students are taught in public education. Mark Twain once quipped, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”. In school, students are expected to. Sit in uncomfortable desks and chairs, and expected to pay attention for long periods of time. Learn out of textbooks specifically designed for the institution of education – books that almost no one buys in real life.

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Develop Your School’s Brand with These 5 Social Media Platforms + Strategies

The Innovative Educator

Today’s students and their parents feel user generated content (UGC) on social media is more memorable and trusted than any other media. This makes social media the best way for schools to communicate their brand to their school community. Award-winning principal, Eric Sheninger explains it this way: “If you don’t tell your story, someone else will.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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STEMx Policy Fellow: Representative Graig Meyer

STEMx

Today, we’re talking to Representative Graig Meyer of North Carolina. Rep. Meyer is part of the inaugural class of STEMx Policy Fellows from across the country. They are spending the next two years learning from and with other policymakers from STEMx states to take new ideas back to their own community. Before becoming a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, Rep.

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Haven High School Students Receive Industry Certification In Mobile Application Design and Paid Internships – Press Release

CTE Learning

Haven, Kansas February 15, 2016 – Four Haven High School Students are the first Kansas High School students this year to achieve Mobile Application Design and Development industry credentials. The industry professional association WebProfessionals.org and course provider CTeLearning.com are proud to congratulate these students for receiving their certifications associated with Haven High’s Mobile Application Design and Development course.

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Science Program Evaluation and a System of Science Assessment

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

Assuming your district/school has established a vision for science education and large-scale, specific goals aligned to that vision , you will next need to determine a system of assessments for evaluating progress toward those goals. As mentioned in my last post, many districts are working to adopt and implement new science standards. Strategically assessing science-related outcomes at multiple levels will provide ongoing evidence of effective change – after all, why make changes if you don’t kn

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3 Fresh Art and Music Apps for the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Fifty years ago, Albert Einstein warned ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ The ability to solve problems by thinking creatively is more important than knowing how they were solved in the past. Now, in today’s connected classroom, creativity has become the newest transformative tool, the buzzword that indicates a curriculum is on the cutting edge, that teachers are delivering their best to students and differentiating for varied needs.

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Downloadable Design Briefs for an Integrative STEM Curriculum

These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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Visions of Education Futures Floating Around in My Head

User Generated Education

Walk into a classroom in any part of the United States, even the world, and you most likely will scratch your head in disbelief asking yourself questions such as: Why do the classrooms look pretty much like the ones in which I, my parents, and my grandparents learned? Many students (of all ages) own computers in the form of their cell phones that are more powerful than all of the computer power of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon.

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Technology: Powerful Weapon or Greatest Foe?

The Innovative Educator

There is mistrust around innovative educators these days because of how technology is being used (or misused) in some schools and districts. By now you’ve heard the stories of tech replacing caring teachers. You’ve heard how class sizes are being increased and students are left to learn by staring at screens rather than interacting with classmates and teachers.

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“Caine’s Arcade” filmmaker joins Tennessee summit

STEMx

Today, we’re talking to Wes Hall, Director of the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network. Wes and the network launched a new conference last year – the Tennessee STEM Innovation Summit. They’re pulling ideas from other networks and showcasing the best of STEM in their state. What’s exciting about the conference this year? We’re excited to kickoff the second annual.

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Recommended Video from our intern Libby

CTE Learning

[link] Click here to watch Be The Generation… The post Recommended Video from our intern Libby appeared first on CTeLearning.

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AR Flashcards Addition

Technology Tidbits

AR Flashcards Addition is the new innovative way for students to work on their addition skills on their mobile iOS devices. The way this works is a user goes to the AR Flashcard website prints out the free flashcard, and then points their iOS device at the card to render beautiful 3D numbers and animals to form an equation. A student can then solve the equation w/in the app and even take timed quizzes.

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Four Ways Teachers Can Stay Connected With Their Student’s Parents Using Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

I was chatting with Mary over at the Dial My Calls site (click to see my review of Dial My Calls ) and she had some great suggestions for how teachers can use technology to stay in touch with parents: A lot of emphasis has been given to getting parents involved in their child’s education, but with a teacher’s already full schedule and parents who are already stretched thin, this is not always easy to accomplish.

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The Maker as a Reflective Practitioner

User Generated Education

This coming year, I am doing several keynotes and workshops on the reflecting on the making process. Two elements from my training as educator lead me to really embrace this topic: Background in Experiential Education. Studying the Reflective Practitioner During Graduate School. Experiential Learning. Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as “learning through reflection on doing.” Experiential learning is distinct from r

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I Fought the Law. Who Won?

The Innovative Educator

In my nearly 30 years in New York City I have found one of the norms we take pride in is that pedestrians and cyclists are trusted to do their best to cross the streets safely despite a traffic system favoring cars rather than those who use more environmentally friendly ways to travel. As I shared last summer, I received a ticket in Manhattan for jay biking.

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Idaho: Primed for STEM

STEMx

Last week, David Burns from Battelle joined a delegation from Ohio to the Idaho legislature. The topic: How to foster STEM? You can read about the visit in detail in this piece. for the Idaho Statesman by Bill Roberts. We asked what he’s thinking after returning home to Ohio. So, this is how it starts. David Burns from Battelle on Idaho’s readiness for STEM schools.

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February Fun- Nerdy Science Pick-up Lines

Science Teaching Junkie

Are you a total science nerd like me? Do you love totally cheesy pick up lines? Then you've got to check out my Instagram account and join in on the February Fun! Each day, until Valentines Day, I will be posting a nerdy pick up line that is science related. My 8th graders really love them and look forward to what completely off-the-wall thing I will post next.

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Biteslide

Technology Tidbits

Biteslide is a wonderful site that I've covered many times before that allows users to create beautiful slidebooks/presentations w/ simple to use drag-n-drop tools. Best of all, it is all done through an educational portal that allows educators to create and manage student account. Educators are using Biteslide for project based learning, flip a lesson, and more.

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3 Favorite Classroom Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s an excellent collection of great apps for your classroom — to cover writing, research, and assessment. You can even use all three on one project: Storyboard That. Free; fee for education accounts . Storyboard That is a leader among online digital storytelling tools thanks to its comic-based themes, clean layout, vast collection of story pieces, varied strip layouts, and intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

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Why Social Media Education Is Needed In Schools

User Generated Education

Social media is an intimate part of a large majority of tweens’ and teens’ lives. The following graphs about teens’ social media use come from Pew Research’s Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015: For young people, social media is not an add-on nor an extracurricular activity. Social media is like eating, bathing, talking.

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#NYCSchoolsTech Teachers Explain Importance of #EdTech #DigCit with @CommonSenseEdu @Graphite @RemindHQ

The Innovative Educator

The Common Sense Education program helps us help students be more deliberate, intentional and self-aware in their online interactions. What kind of teacher, would leave the warmth of their home and families on a cold, windy, rainy Tuesday night? In New York City it was teachers excited to have participated in our Innovation Partner Professional Development Program.

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52 Resources for Read Across America Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

Many people in the United States, particularly students, parents and teachers, join forces on Read Across America Day, annually held on March 2. This nationwide observance coincides with the birthday of Dr Seuss. Here are some great reading websites for students K-5: Aesop Fables—no ads. Aesop’s Fables. Audio stories. Childhood Stories. Classic Fairy Tales.

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8 Reasons for and 8 Against Revisiting Software in the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

I recently chatted with a tech coordinator on the East coast who asked about software alternatives to the webtools we were discussing. That surprised me. Usually, teachers want free, easily-accessible-from-anywhere webtools in place of expensive, installed software. When I asked why she had some excellent reasons: No ads. Almost all free online tools and apps include advertising.

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19 Valentine Sites For Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else: Dress up the heart. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Line up the hearts. Valentine games and puzzles. Valentine Day games and stories. Valentine Day poem generator. Valentine drag-and-drop. Valentine match.

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8 Fresh Activities for Valentine’s Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re looking for project websites for Valentine’s Day, go to my post last Friday and you’ll find 20 Great Valentine Websites for your students. If you’re looking for something else, read on: Here’s Valentine history , according to Wikipedia. Who knew it all started with Geoffrey Chaucer? Three great Valentine love poems from new efriend, Chris Wood.