Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 31, 2020
On Feb. 5, 2020, World Read Aloud Day celebrates the pure joy of oral reading with kids of all ages. Created by LitWorld , past years have found over 1 million people in 100 countries joining together to enjoy the power and wonder of reading aloud in groups or individually, at school or home, and discovering what it means to listen to a story told through the voice of another.
User Generated Education
JANUARY 18, 2020
In Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons , I propose a model for the stages of making. I believe that the heart of making is creating new and unique things. I also realize that in order for this type of making to occur, there needs to be some scaffolding so that maker learners can develop a foundation of knowledge and skills.
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The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 25, 2020
All schools receiving public funding must make content accessible to everyone including those with disabilities. If your school or district is interested in helping staff understand why this is important, then consider Accessibility for Everyone for your next great book study. Inclusive research In the book author Laura Kalbag talks about the importance of including people with disabilities in user research studies.
PHYSICS! BLOG!
JANUARY 23, 2020
In November, I tried this lesson (below) in my 10th grade physics classes. I’ve joined an “anti-bias task force” at my school made up of teachers from all divisions (lower, middle, and high school) who are looking at their curriculum and implementing lessons or other changes to work on removing bias and improving what and how we teach.
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.
Magic EdTech
JANUARY 21, 2020
The online sphere has become an indispensable resource for almost every aspect of life, from recreation to education and employment to healthcare and even business. More importantly, it is this online sphere that can help transcend barriers to audio, visual and print media, ensuring accessibility for all. In fact, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that access to information and communications technologies is a basic human right.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 9, 2020
Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Serhii Tkachecnko, CEO at Unicheck, shares his thoughts on how educators can teach students about the benefits of plagiarism checking. Students experience an array of emotions toward education: from excitement to boredom. But when it comes to plagiarism checking, most students feel hostile. Many misconceptions circle around plagiarism checkers, but in reality, plagiarism checkers improve the cooperation, communication, and collaboration between educators and studen
User Generated Education
JANUARY 1, 2020
20/20 vision is a term for visual acuity in which the numerator refers to distance and the denominator refers to size. Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision. Vision is all about clarity. 20/20 vision is perfect, high-definition clarity. The question is: How clear is your vision? Specifically, how clear is your vision [for your learners’] futures?
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 19, 2020
Museum educator shares information to an audience about their four programs. " How would you get troops on a beach when there's a big coral reef in the way?" "If you were Eisenhower or Churchill and had the information they had what decisions would you make?" These are the type of questions students are confronted with when they take a digital field trip to the The National WWII Museum.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
JANUARY 30, 2020
Today we discuss the ways that podcasting can be used to engage students in the classroom. Getting students to participate can be difficult at times. Teachers are continually competing with the fast pace of video games and instant gratification that exists in our world today. That's why podcasting can be such a useful tool to grab the attention of your students.
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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.
Magic EdTech
JANUARY 30, 2020
Have you heard of learning to drive using simulators? Simulations as you know allow us to imitate real-world activities and processes in a safe environment. They provide an experience as close to real activity with the added advantage of unlimited practice. With the reset option learner can approach a situation with different strategies. The use of simulation in education and training started in aviation training and medical field due to safety and cost considerations.
Informed K12
JANUARY 13, 2020
It’s officially January, which means it’s officially 2020! As we reflect on the successes of last year, we’re proud of not only bringing on a record number of new school districts, but also of bringing on quite a few new employees. It’s a bit surreal to look back on where the team was at this point last year and see just how much progress has been made on many fronts.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 27, 2020
Before I get into how edtech enhances social studies lessons, let’s ask a foundational question: What the heck is Social Studies ? If you don’t teach in the United States, this might be a term you aren’t familiar with. According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” Merriam Webster offers this definitio
User Generated Education
JANUARY 12, 2020
Last semester, I worked with a few high school students to create a project for the New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge. Being a learner-centric, process-oriented educator (hence, the name of my blog – User Generated Education), I embraced the following practices during this project. Learners selected and developed their problem statement and guiding question.
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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!
Mrs. Harris Teaches
JANUARY 14, 2020
In North Carolina, Earth and Environmental Science is a required high school science course for all students. For this class, I have center rotations for review before each test (with one center being Jeopardy ). But for the NC earth and environmental science final exam review, I also use flashcards. Cue the groans of my 9th graders. Yup, I integrate the use of flashcards into my science instruction.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
JANUARY 23, 2020
Podcasting is such a powerful medium on which to share your message. So why not put that in the hands of kids? Kids these days are constantly sharing their messages on social media. Yet, our children are feeling heard less and less. Why not give them a platform to speak up and be heard? Today on the show I will share 3 powerful reasons teachers should be utilizing podcasts in their classroom.
Start-Engineering
JANUARY 7, 2020
Eric Iversen. Who has it? A certain theory holds that people who succeed in cybersecurity, like the rich, are different from you and me. They see things from a different slant, finding patterns and connections in seemingly mundane or familiar environments that other people cannot see. Security guru Bruce Schneier describes it this way : "Security requires a particular mindset.
The Tech Savvy Science Teacher
JANUARY 4, 2020
PDF Candy is a collection of absolutely free online and offline tools for working with PDF files (converting, splitting, merging, rotating, etc ). You can use this tool on the web or download the app for your Windows computer. All tools are very easy to use. You can always upload files from Dropbox, Google Drive or simply by drag and dropping them. Each tool can be added to 'Favorites' for faster access from the index page of the PDF Candy website.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 22, 2020
There’s always been something mystical about people in technical professions–engineering, science, mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of mathematical functions, even smile at the mention of calculus. The teaching profession has their own version of these individuals, called ‘technology teachers’ They used to be stuffed in a corner of the school where most teachers could pretend they didn’t exist, that what they did was for
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 12, 2020
Innovative educators understand that there is more to learning than processed worksheets and tests. That's why real-world tasks and assessments are finally making it out of just the elite schools and are becoming more prevalent in mainstream education. At the Tech & Learning Leadership Summit experts in the area of technology and education came together to discuss a variety of topics including how technology support bringing real learning experiences to the classroom.
Mrs. Harris Teaches
JANUARY 13, 2020
Resources for science teachers come in many forms, and I’m all about that informal PD. Here’s a collection of news stories I came across this past week that may inspire positive change in your science teaching, classroom, or life. Photo by Edvin Johansson on Unsplash. SCIENCE TEACHING. Teach about science in the news in 2020 via NSTA Blog.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
JANUARY 16, 2020
60: How Teachers Can Make Smart Moves With Money Teachers don't go into teaching for the money. In fact, we often know there won't be a lot of that. So how do we not only survive a teacher's salary but thrive instead? Today Rob Phelan from Fi Educator and I sit down and have some hard conversations about money. I only wish I had this conversation 20 years ago!
STEMx
JANUARY 30, 2020
Adapted from Battelle’s. press release. . The inaugural Battelle NEON STEM Grant Program will fund $100,000 worth of student research around the country, enabling five projects to leverage the open data generated by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). A continental-scale ecological observation facility sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed and operated by Battelle since 2016, NEON collects long-term ecological data from across the United States to better unders
CTE Learning
JANUARY 13, 2020
Educator Warning, as of January 14, 2020, Windows 7 on your school and personal systems will no longer receive security updates or technical support from Microsoft. Here is what is really scary… 26% of the computers in the world are still running Windows 7. How many of them are in your school? Your guess is as good as mine. But there is a way to find out without bugging the IT department.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 24, 2020
Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. At first, I thought it had to do with finding something exciting about the dreariness of post-Christmas January but when I counted school days from Labor Day to the hundred-day mark (skipping weekends, two weeks at Christmas and a week at Thanksgiving), that put me in the second week of February.
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 5, 2020
If you work in a school where English is not the first language of all students then families may have a hard time understanding what is happening in schools. This is because families are unable to access content due to language barriers. However you can address this issue by creating inclusive content. Inclusive content is more easily accessed by those with disabilities and more easily translatable by a machine.
Stem-by-Design
JANUARY 8, 2020
Hi Anne – I am a high school CTE teacher where we are in the beginning phases of developing a STEAM Academy. I am the chair of our STEAM team, and I am so excited about the possibilities that lie ahead of us. I just finished reading, “Stem By Design” and I am thrilled with the information and resources I have gathered thus far. I was wondering if you had some good high school resources that you would recommend.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
JANUARY 9, 2020
Implementing New Habits in the Classroom for the New Year Today we will be talking about the power of habit building and the impact habits can have on your results. We will talk about an excellent book titled Atomic Habits by James Clear. You will find that just a 1% change can have a compounded interest on your desired result. I hope you'll join me.
STEMx
JANUARY 14, 2020
Yesterday afternoon, the top three entries in U.S. territories and states were announced for the “Name the Rover” contest. Read NASA’s feature below for all the details on what’s next. Check out the names and essays for the semifinalists selected from your state. here. NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Closer to Getting Its Name. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is one step closer to having its own name after 155 students across the U.S. were chosen as semifinalists in the “Name the Rover” essay contest.
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