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JULY 6, 2015

Mike Daugherty is the director of technology for a high-achieving public school district in Ohio, an occasional contributor to AATT (see his last post, 5 Things You Need to Know About 3D Printing), and the author of Modern EdTech Leadership , a discussion on how today’s administrators handle the blending of tech and ed. I asked him if he could distill this profile into bite-size chunks, consumable over coffee or between classes.

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JULY 13, 2015

July 13, 2015 Below is a selection of some of the best iPad apps we have reviewed in the last couple of years. These apps are particularly curated for student researchers and academics. They provide.read more.

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User Generated Education

JULY 27, 2015

Discussions have occurred around some maker circles about what actually is making as related to maker education. I have proposed 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

JULY 15, 2015

Traditional public schools have a testing- and competition-focused model that often gets in the way of potentially positive social interactions. After all, you can’t test students in their personal interactions, so in what’s the point in fostering it? When considering if school is a good place to learn healthy interpersonal relationships, it is important to make the distinction between socializing and being socialized.

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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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Technology Tidbits

JULY 24, 2015

Trending Words feature lets data guide teachers in 21st century vocabulary instruction. Last summer BoomWriter introduced WordWriter ( [link] ), which lets teachers conduct short interactive application activities allowing them to access and enhance their students' understanding of key terms, figures, phrases, and dates. BoomWrtier is now adding their Trending Words ( [link] ) feature to BoomWriter, allowing teachers to select from top trending vocabulary used by other BoomWriter teachers while

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Classrooms are infused with technology. You rarely see a lesson that doesn’t ask for online this or digital that. Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps. By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Accomplishing this so it serves educational goals isn’t as much about knowing how to use the tools as constructing knowledge in an organic, scalabl

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Educators Technology

JULY 13, 2015

July, 2015 Cite fast is an easy to use web tool for creating citations. Students can utilize it to generate citations in different formats: APA (6th edition), MAL (7th edition), or Chicago (16th.read more.

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User Generated Education

JULY 26, 2015

We are living in an age of advanced user-driven technologies, information abundance, and networked, participatory learning. It should logically follow, then, that education should take advantage of these amazing developments. As many of us in education know, it has not. This theme has permeated many of my blog posts: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 8, 2015

One of the most exciting things I found at #ISTE2015 was a school bus transformed into a technology learning studio. The bus is operated by Estella who at age 79 is a self-identified “Gadget Gal.” She loves technology and gadgets so much, she wanted to bring them to others in her community who might not have access to computers and the internet. So, she drew up her dream on a piece of paper and put the word out that she was looking for folks to help her bring this to life.

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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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Technology Tidbits

JULY 30, 2015

Storyboard That the innovative site for creating storyboards, digital lessons/storytelling, project based learning, and more, has just released an update that allows users to create timelines. All a student/teacher has to do is create a new storyboard and select timeline. They then have the option to add a date, text, image, or select one of the many templates/styles of their choice (i.e web, t-chart, grid, etc.).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2015

Lesson planning used to mean filling in boxes on a standard form with materials, goals, expectations, assessments–details like that. Certainly this is valuable information, but today’s lesson plans–like today’s lessons –demand less rote fill-in-the-blanks and more conceptualization, critical thinking, and collaboration.

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JULY 24, 2015

Natural disasters is a related discussion to any number of topics–geography, ecology, Earth Day, even problem solving. Here are 16 websites that bring the power of these natural forces to students: Avalanches. Earthquake simulations. Earthquakes. Earthquakes for Kids. Earthquakes–USGS. Hurricanes. Natural disaster videos. Natural disasters—National Geographic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2015

Videos, games, and more–preview them and pick what works for your age group: 1 7 Minutes of Terror- -Curiosity landing on Mars. 100,000 stars–simulation. Build a Space Station. Earthrise –the first time it’s recorded; a video. Land on the Moon. Moon around. Moon—Garfield teaches the Lunar Cycle. Moon—We Choose the Moon. NASA City.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2015

Web 2.0 is the most exciting thing to happen to education since the schoolhouse. It is a limitless classroom, allowing students access to anything they can define. Includes what’s a digital citizen, how to create a blog, a classroom internet start page, a classroom wiki, how to join social networks and post pictures on Flikr, where to go for podcasting and online docs, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2015

In the past few weeks, I’ve gotten several emails like this from teachers: I am a tech teacher, going on my fifth year in the lab. Each year I plan to be more organized than the last, and most often I revert back to the “way things were.” I’m determined to run the lab just like I think it should be! … Could you please elaborate on how you run your class?

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JULY 8, 2015

New to Ask a Tech Teacher? Here’s what you do: Subscribe to the site. We publish 5-6 articles a week on a wide variety of tech-in-ed topics. Don’t miss out on the latest about: Grade-level specific (K-12) tools and information. Subject-specific tools and information. The 21st Century classroom. Tech tools for the classroom. Reviews of tech ed books, products, websites, apps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 28, 2015

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: Sometimes, I just can’t remember how to accomplish a task. Often, I know it’s simple. Maybe I’ve done it before–or even learned it before–and it’s lost in my brain.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2015

In the past six months, I’ve posted over 140 articles on topics ranging from tech ed trends to how-tos, problem solving, and pedagogic discussions. I like to step back a few times a year and determine what readers are most interested in. WordPress makes that easy with their statistics. I calculate what’s trending on my blog by which of my posts are popular in a particular time period.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2015

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: I got an email that looks legitimate, but I’m not sure. How do I check? A: You’re right to take a step back. ‘Phishing’ is an attempt to steal your personal information by posing as a trusted source (a friend, your bank–like that).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 15, 2015

School’s been out for at least a few weeks and I just finished up three online classes that started in June. Next week, I’ll feel like I have an endless span of hours to do all the activities that got sidelined by grading, projects, training, and general ‘school’ stuff. Once I get through reading until I’m bored (or I run out of food) and straightening up the house (I won’t get carried away), I’ll start on the meat of my summer activities.

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Educators Technology

JULY 26, 2015

July 26, 2015 Kids’ cognition craves drawing because it provides it with an ample and unrestricted space to exercise its creative performance. With the advance of technology and more.read more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Summer PD 2015 just ended. A couple dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, lab teachers–gathered virtually for three weeks to experiment with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom–Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, backchannels, digital citizenship, assessment, and more (12 topics in all).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

MTI 562 (the Tech-infused Teacher ) and MTI 563 (the Differentiated Teacher ) just ended. More than a dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, lab teachers–gathered virtually for five weeks to experiment with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom–Google Apps, differentiation options, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, backchannels, digital citizenship, assessment, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 4, 2015

It’s America’s birthday and I’m celebrating. What I write today will be… anything I want–gibberish, a short story, guest articles on crazy topics. I have no idea. My son’s in Kuwait protecting America’s distant shores. My daughter’s in San Diego preparing her LPD for some future battle. I’m here, thanking both of them and every other service member who accepted the calling to protect our nation’s freedoms.

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Educators Technology

JULY 24, 2015

July 23, 2015 We have already shared several posts in the past featuring a plethora of web tools and apps to help kids (and adults) learn fast typing. However, today we are sharing with you our top.read more.

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JULY 31, 2015

Multi-user licenses are going up in price October 1st. This includes licenses for: student workbooks. teacher resources. teacher webinar–training. If you’re planning to purchase one, save 25% by purchasing yours now: Room. School. District. Questions? Email askatechteacher@gmail.com or zeke.rowe@structuredlearning.net.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2015

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: Typing on the iPad keyboard is slow. You have to access two different screens to type most messages. How do I speed that up without buying (and installing) a separate QWERTY keyboard?

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JULY 1, 2015

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: 25% Discount off Tech Curriculum Upgrade. If you want to upgrade from an earlier digital version of the SL Technology Curriculum , you are eligible for 25% off that upgrade. Email Zeke.Rowe at structuredlearning.net with the name you purchased under.

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