Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2017

Many of the existential guides for teaching (such as Habits of Mind , the Socrative Method , and Mindfulness ) promote a student-driven growth mindset as fundamental to successful learning. This means students take an active part in achieving education and personal goals. The problem is how to persuade students to voluntarily reflect on their progress, rethink goals, and make the required adjustments to achieve success?

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 8, 2017

9Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication. The human or social element is often disregarded.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 25, 2017

Check out #1st5Days on Twitter to see how others start their school year. While some schools have been in session since early August, teachers in my district, New York City, are just gearing up for the start of the year. They are eager to put into place ideas to start the year off right. Ed tech leader Alan November , suggests setting the tone for powerful, engaging, and self-directed learning during the first five days of school.

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Informed K12

AUGUST 25, 2017

School districst arcross the country are turning to emergency measures in order to fill hard-to-fill teaching posts, according to an article published this week by Education Week.

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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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CTE Learning

AUGUST 18, 2017

Our offices will be closed for most of the working day 08/21. Our town is close enough to the eclipse path that we will be shutting down between 10:30am till 2:30pm CST. The team has varied plans for what they will be doing. Welding googles and viewing glasses are scattered about and stashed in cars. I expect some will drive a little north, or go to local watch parties.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 16, 2017

Lakeshore has long been a staple for preschool to sixth grade teachers looking for classroom supplies. Many education conferences I have attended, they were there, sharing their resources. Now, ORIGO Education is partnering with them to deliver their industry-leading math curricula. Read on: ORIGO Education , a leading provider of mathematic curriculum programs for Pre-K–6 grades, and Lakeshore Learning Materials , a nationwide supplier of educational resources, announce their partnership to of

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 20, 2017

Torrence, whose focus was on creativity, developed the Torrence Incubation Model of Creative Thinking (TIM) model. As emphasized in this video, embedding creativity into the curriculum can and should be a strong component of content area teaching and learning. In other words, educators don’t need to plan to teach creativity as another part of curriculum.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 6, 2017

While we’ve made progress in supporting students with digital literacy, citizenship, and using technology to support teaching and learning, one area where we haven’t kept up is news and media literacy. A Stanford study found that America's middle, high school and college students are shockingly bad deciphering fact from fiction or detecting bias. Educational companies are starting to rise to the challenge of addressing this issue.

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Informed K12

AUGUST 10, 2017

From Edsource , The Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team's new CEO, Michael Fine spoke to a reporter recently about the affects of declining enrollments and what the means for California districts and LCFF.

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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.

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STEMx

AUGUST 31, 2017

STEMx was created as a platform for connecting state STEM networks together to share breakthroughs and support each other. In February, we. unveiled. a new, searchable database of resources pulled from around the country. That database is growing. Throughout the year, a team of leaders from around the network met to evaluate potential resources. Today, we proudly grant the STEMx Seal of Approval to the following tools: States are devoting resources to STEM schools for a clear reason: Research co

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 9, 2017

Night Zoopkeeper is a new free site for students to help their Writing skills through fun interactive lessons. Best of all, the educational portal allows educators to: assign lessons, track student progress, and assess their work in real-time. This makes it easy for teachers to differentiate instruction and implement project based learning in their classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2017

Nothing turns data into information like a spreadsheet. We as teachers understand that, which is why spreadsheets are a fundamental tool to critically analyze any data that includes numbers. There are many options (Numbers, Excel, and Open Office to name just a few), but arguably the most popular is Google Sheets. If you’re using Google Classroom or G Suite, you already have it.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 12, 2017

I was painfully bored during my K-12 education. I looked forward to college anticipating that it would be different – more engaging, more interesting, more innovative. I was wrong. My undergraduate education, except for a few bright spots, was just an extension of my K-12 education including more grill and drill with sages on the stages (literally since I went to such a large university); taking notes and taking lots of multiple choice tests.

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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!

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 23, 2017

Ed tech leader Jackie Patanio & I building Emoticons. Imagine that when students come back to school, rather than telling them to take out a book, read chapters 1 & 2 and answer the questions at the end of each chapter, instead you invited them to play and make stuff. And, what if this stuff was all standards aligned and paired with the assessments that make some administrators happy?

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Informed K12

AUGUST 14, 2017

District Administration today published an article that summarizes some potential cost reduction tactics that districts can deploy in order to help balance their budgets.

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STEMx

AUGUST 25, 2017

September 13, 2017: 4-5 p.m. (EST). Register. Access to quality STEM mentors has been linked to student and teacher success. Creating a process to develop, manage, and sustain mentorship relationships between STEM professionals and teachers and students isn’t easy. Tune in this month to learn about the steps being taken in New York and Utah to create meaningful STEM mentorships.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 8, 2017

EDpuzzle the amazing simple to use site that educators everywhere are using to "flip" a classroom and differentiate instruction has recently release their "online" curriculum for teachers. Educators can now access all video-lessons and questions for the whole school year. This is a great way to easily gage student learning in a wide range of subjects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 11, 2017

If you have challenging students in your classes, there’s a good chance someone has suggested that you look into Whole Brain Teaching (WBT). Whole Brain Teaching is an active teaching method designed to maximize student engagement in lessons, positive interactions with classmates, and educational fun. Instruction includes vocal directions mixed with hand gestures, inflections, full body movement, head motions, and chants.

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Amy Brown Science

AUGUST 14, 2017

Over 130 years have passed since the death of Charles Darwin. Despite the passage of time since Darwin first presented his ideas on natural selection, there continues to be controversy surrounding his theory of evolution. In 1973, Theodosius Dobzhansky published an essay in American Biology Teacher in which he stated, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 5, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. What’s hot: Livestreaming, conferences, and partnering with companies for learning. At the top for the third consecutive week is 10 Strategies For Successfully Using #PeriscopeEdu to capture the learning at conferences. Next up is post that shares Tips for Connecting at Education Conferences Rounding out the top is a post featuring a podcast I was interviewed for where I discuss my educational phi

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2017

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, w

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2017

Thinkster Math is an iPad based math tutorial program for K-8, aligned with Common Core and based on well-known international math programs such as Singapore Math. Offered in thirty countries and used by thousands of students, it teaches via digital worksheets, video tutorials, feedback from real (human) coaches, and a long-term plan developed with the student that encourages students to learn at their own pace, wherever they are, on a device (the iPad) that they love.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2017

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

Here are the most-read posts for the month of July: What is Microsoft Sway? 10 Great Posts on How to Involve Parents. 12 Projects for your STEAM program. Is Orton-Gillingham Right For Your Students? 13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading. Zap Zap Kindergarten Math–Clever, Engaging Early Math Lessons. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2017

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, w

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

September 1st-3rd: Common Core Resources. 25% off! with coupon code: CCSSDISCOUNT. This includes ebooks, lesson plans, webinars, and articles–your choice. Just click this link. Pick any resource(s) you want. When you check out, you’ll get 25% off. Click to view slideshow.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

I’ve written a lot of Back-to-School articles over the last few years. They cover so many topics–see if you find what you’re looking for here: 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons. 3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year. 4 Options for a Class Internet Start Page. 5 Tech Ed Tools to Use this Fall. 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year. 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 5 Ways Teache rs Can Stay on Top of Technology. 5 Ways to Involve Parent

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 16, 2017

When difficult news and events take place in our world, it stands to reason that difficult topics may work their way into the classroom. Unfortunately educators don't have much training on how to best approach such situations with students. Thank goodness for Common Sense. Education that is. When difficult events take place like the horrific display of hate in Charlottesville, Virginia Common Sense comes through with some helpful tools and resources to ad dress students.

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