February, 2018

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19 Educational Websites to Enhance Students Reading Skills

Educators Technology

Today's post features some of the best educational websites to help your students develop strong reading skills. They (websites) provide access to a treasure trove of resources, lessons plans,read more.

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169 Tech Tip #25: My Desktop Keyboard Doesn’t Work

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #25: My Desktop Keyboard Doesn’t Work.

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No Child Left Unloved: 5 Shifts We Need to Serve At-Risk Youth

The Innovative Educator

Editor's note: This is part of a series entitled " Innovative Approaches to Support At-Risk Youth." Innovative educators work hard to find the best ways possible for students to learn by tapping into their talents, passions, interests, and abilities. However, before the learning can happen, there is one crucial element that is necessary, but often overlooked for learning to occur.

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The Science of Curling

STEMx

This post was. originally published by Battelle. , which manages STEMx, and it’s too good not to share. Have you integrated curling (or any other Olympic sport) into your classroom? Please tell us about it in the comments below. At Battelle, we take science seriously. And, our researchers may take their hobbies just as seriously as their science. Rick Olson, a mechanical engineer who has led structural analysis projects at Battelle for 41 years, is also an active member of the Columbus Curling C

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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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One of the most inspiring moments in STEAM 2018 – SpaceX and Elon Musk

CTE Learning

I was speechless… well that is a lie. I was going nuts. I still get tears in my eyes when I look at these images. My son thinks I am a bit off the rails. However, he was not in Aerospace Eng school when the Challenger blew up. It was devastating and demoralizing. Later we lost Columbia – another punch to the throat. Though I must give a shout out to the ISS and all of their terrific success.

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12 Great Classroom Management Websites for Teachers

Educators Technology

Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your class instruction? The list below has you covered. These are some some popular web tools we have reviewed in multiple.read more.

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169 Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work.

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An Innovative Educator’s Guide to Facebook Privacy Settings

The Innovative Educator

Like it or not, at this point in time Facebook is the winner when it comes to social learning communities. It is where companies have found they can best connect with customers and build relationships. It is also where organizations have learned staff can effectively connect to keep communication going and learn and support from one another. If you’ve tried to be one of the last to hop aboard, but realize it is no longer possible if you want to do your job most effectively, here are some tips fo

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Focused on student success: Ainslie completes tenure at Indiana STEM Network

STEMx

After five-plus years leading the I-STEM Resource Network at Purdue University, Paul J. Ainslie stepped down as managing director in February. Since 2012, Ainslie had guided the network, which provides STEM curriculum and teacher professional development in Indiana as well as advocates for improved STEM education and resources for the state. In announcing his departure, Ainslie wrote, “.

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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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High School Launches STEAM Career Coding Courses

CTE Learning

Branson High School – Coding and Video Game Design Course – STEAM Career Course This fall, April Fiesler started the first coding and game development class at Branson High School, a beautiful school nestled in the Ozark mountain country of southern Missouri. April has fast become one of our favorite teachers to work with. What STEM / STEAM courses to teach?

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Super Teacher Worksheets File Cabinet

Technology Tidbits

Super Teacher Worksheets the one-stop place for educational resources has jut released a way to "house" all of their PDF's in a easy file-cabinet system. This is an excellent way to keep all of their worksheets, printables, puzzles, and more in a convenient place. Be sure to check STW out and see all of their Spring resources too!!! Below is a brief demo of the Super Teacher Worksheet file cabinet feature.

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6 Great Google Slides Add-ons for Teachers

Educators Technology

A few months ago, Google made it possible for third party developers to create and share add-ons to be used on Google Slides after it was exclusive to only Docs and Sheets. Since then Slides.read more.

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What is the VARK model of Student Learning?

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you use the VARK model of Student Learning , you know why I’m excited about it. VARK started as a questionnaire to help students and teachers understand their best approach to learning but has since become more of a guideline for teaching and learning. The questionnaire is deliberately short (thirteen-sixteen questions, depending upon which version you take) in order to prevent student survey fatigue.

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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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11 Ways to Increase School Safety Right Now

The Innovative Educator

Editor's note: This is part of a series entitled " Innovative Approaches to Support At-Risk Youth.".

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Volkswagen, state, and key local partners bring eLabs to many schools in Chattanooga

STEMx

At eight schools in Hamilton County, Tennessee, students can tackle a selected real-world problem, design a solution and fabricate that solution, all in their onsite Volkswagen eLab. The eight eLabs, which provide access to rapid prototyping technology, came about through a public-private partnership in the Chattanooga area. And, it was just announced that eight more schools in the county will be getting eLabs.

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The Year of the Dog – Libby the Intern’s favorite year.

CTE Learning

Libby the intern would like to note that this is the year of the dog. She is already pushing for a raise in office treats and rides. Negotiations are heated at the moment as her Australian Cattle Dog Rescue stubbornness is kicking in. Anyway – Happy Year of the Dog. Libby’s first day at work. Actually, Libby’s first “Out here and not on the office carpet” break.

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Fabmath

Technology Tidbits

Fabmath is an excellent resource for teachers/students for Math grades 1st-8th. Fabmath is a great learning tool w/ educational portal that allows educators to assign tests, worksheets, and more, while tracking their students progress and needs. This allows teachers to different instruction and assess students in real-time while generating detailed reports.

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17 of The Best Surveys and Polls Creation Tools for Teachers and Educators

Educators Technology

Over the last few months we have reviewed a number of interesting web tools and mobile apps teachers can use to collect students feedback. And as we have argued elsewhere, access to students feedback.read more.

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39 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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Address Learning Differences with These Micro-credentials from @DigitalPromise

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators know the importance of understanding how a student learns best and then designing an approach tailored that student’s needs. This comes in the form of learning that is student centered , differentiated, and takes into account the learner’s differences and preferences. It also means having a class load that makes this manageable and using resources like Thrively or Personal Success Plans to tap into students individual passions, talents, interests, abilities, and learning sty

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How AT&T is solving super problems at the NFL championship game

STEMx

Staging Super Bowl LII can mean solving super problems, such as: How do you increase network capacity at the NFL championship game site — U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis — to handle the cellphone calls of thousands of fans, media representatives and vendors as well as myriad other visitors? Solution: You plan months in advance. So says Marachel Knight, senior vice president, Technology and Planning, with AT&T Operations.

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Coding, Video Game Design and App Development – A teacher’s thoughts “Giving His Students The Advantage” – Lance Gerodias of Charter Oak High School – a National Academy Foundation NAF School

CTE Learning

We caught up with Lance at Charter Oak High School, in Covina, California and asked him about his experiences with teaching coding. Charter Oak High School is a National Academy Foundation NAF school and Lance teaches in their BETA program. The two CTeLearning.com courses, that Lance teaches, are also industry certification courses. This has paid off big time for COHS.

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Otus

Technology Tidbits

Otus the excellent and easy to use Learning Management System for schools has a sleek new design, that allows for easier functionality, a brighter customizable color interface, and real-time analytics and third party integration (i.e. Khan Academy), and of course Otus Worksheets. Here is a list of their updated features. Cleaner Interface: A polished, streamlined functionality lets users more easily navigate existing features including polling for instant feedback, a real-time assessment center,

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6 Excellent Websites to Help Students Learn Coding

Educators Technology

Coding is the sine qua non of success in a knowledge economy society. It has become a primordial skill in K-12 education and beyond. The pedagogical importance of coding, besides the technical part.read more.

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Best-in-Category Winners for 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher routinely shares favorite websites and apps that make a difference in the classroom. Over the last month, readers voted on which tools had the greatest impact on readers. To award this Best in Category badge, we asked them to look for the uncommon resources (meaning: not the ones everyone knows about), the ones that made them say Wow and rush to share with colleagues everywhere.

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#NYCSchoolsTechChat: Valentine's Special Tonight at 7 p.m.

The Innovative Educator

As Valentine's Day approaches, this chat will give participants ideas for way we can touch our students' hearts so we can reach their minds. #NYCSchoolTech teacher Eileen Lennon moderates with me throwing in my two cents. You can prepare for the conversation by thinking about answers to these questions: Q1 What innovative approaches are you using in your classroom to celebrate Valentine’s Day?

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9 of The Best News Sources for Students and Young Learners

Educators Technology

News reading is an important literacy practice that, among other things, helps students become responsible citizens, raises their critical media awareness, and connects them to the global world. News.read more.

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20 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: Apps. Drag-and-drop. Dress up the heart. Google Drawings Magnetic Poetry from Ctrl Alt Achieve. Games and puzzles. Games and stories. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Line up the hearts. Match. Mouse skills.

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Quick Review of 7 Popular Math Programs

Ask a Tech Teacher

America’s student math scores continue to drop. Headlines such as “ Less than half of Maryland students pass English, math assessments ” and “ Internationally, U.S. Students Are Falling ” have become so common, we are almost immune to the message. The knee-jerk reaction “That’s not my school; that’s someone else’s” has become the excuse for fighting efforts to fix kids’ math aptitude when those fixes are outside the box or difficu

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5 Ways to Use JotForm Cards With Your Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

One of the fastest growing technologies in education is forms–to gather information, curate data, test students, and much more. There are lots of platforms available but for many, JotForm is the gold standard whether on PCs, Macs, or mobile devices. JotForm offers what seems to be an endless supply of professional-looking templates that can be used to sign up volunteers, get feedback on events, enroll students into classes, ask for donations, collect payments, and much more.

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Tech Tips #170: Cover your webcam!

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is part of the 169 tech tips for your class-but this is a bonus, not included in the ebook, just for readers of Ask a Tech Teacher: Tech Tip #170: Cover your webcam when you aren’t using it! Why? privacy. security. peace of mind. Sign up for a new tip each week or buy the entire 169 Real-world Ways to Put Tech into Your Classroom. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.