Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. Not only does it eliminate the noise of who’s wearing what, disruptive students, and classes cancelled due to snow days, it is becoming the surest and easiest way to treat all students equally. The gregarious students no longer take over the class and the quiet ones are not ignored in their silence.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Kids are learning – but for way too many it occurs outside of the school environment rather than during school. Given today’s technologies, it makes sense and is exciting that learning occurs after schools hours, but for exciting, engaging, and profound learning not to occur during school hours is, simply put, a travesty. I contend that school, especially in the latter part of the 20th century, had a high degree of irrelevancy but in today’s highly connected world, it is absurd

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

66: Google Classroom With Bethany Rodgers Today I sit down with 6 grade ELA teacher, Bethany Rodgers as she shares loads of tips for using Google and Google Classroom. Talk about a highly engaging environment! You will definitely need to take notes during this episode. Bethany shares so many Google strategies and ways to integrate technology in a meaningful way.

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PCS Edventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Engineering is one of the cornerstones of STEM and STEAM education and those working within this field understand how diverse and complex this discipline can be. Intertwined with Science, Technology, Arts and Mathematics engineers utilize their understanding of each discipline to design and build works of art. From the Pyramids of Giza to the Golden Gate Bridge, engineers throughout history have contributed to the development of societies around the world. .

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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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Bright and Smart

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Our Posterity = Our Children. Enhancing our children's S.T.E.A.M education is imperative to their success and will help them become innovators of the future. S. T. E. A. M stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Hands-on activities helps us to cognitively and visually see how things work. By creating things with our hands, we can understand and appreciate the importance of its existence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Constructivism is a student-centered philosophy that emphasizes hands-on learning and active participation in lessons. Constructivists believe that learning is an active process so the most effective way to learn is through discovery. With hands-on activities, learners actively create their own subjective representation of objective reality. Because new information is blended into prior knowledge, the result is – of course – subjective, heavily dependent upon the personal lens of each learner.

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The Tech Savvy Science Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Edpuzzle offers student certifications on a number of topics. If you haven't familiar with Edpuzzle take a look at my previous post about it. Basically it's a way to embed questions into videos and allow you to track students' progress. You can assign students topics such as: digital citizenship, equal rights, personal finance, emotional intelligence, learning and study habits, health and building character.

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

66: Google Classroom With Bethany Rodgers Today I sit down with 6 grade ELA teacher, Bethany Rodgers as she shares loads of tips for using Google and Google Classroom. Talk about a highly engaging environment! You will definitely need to take notes during this episode. Bethany shares so many Google strategies and ways to integrate technology in a meaningful way.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

"Differentiated instruction and assessment (also known as differentiated learning or, in education , simply, differentiation ) is a framework or philosophy for effective teaching that involves providing students with different avenues to acquiring content; to processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas ; and to developing teaching materials and assessment measures so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively, regardless of differences in ability.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Activity is busting out all over at South Carolina’s Coalition for Mathematics & Science (SCCMS). From the upcoming STEM Education Month to the iMAGINE STEAM community festivals and S. 2. TEM Centers SC professional development, myriad events and projects are being sponsored by the coalition to make sure educators and students across the state are busy exploring, discovering and learning.

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CTE Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A career in web technologies is one of the high paying and highly sought after career pathways today. With attractive salaries and the personal freedom it offers, a career in web technologies could be the right choice for you. Every industry, business, government and arguably every person depends on the web the technologies of the web. A career in web technologies offers attractive salaries, mobility, and freedom for creative and skilled workers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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: My Internet Won’t Work. Category: Internet.

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STEM for Kids

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Morrisville, NC USA 2/25/20. America’s highest paying jobs include anesthesiologist, surgeon, oral surgeon, obstetrician / gynecologist, orthodontist, psychiatrist, physician, prosthodontist, pediatrician and dentist. What’s common about all these high ranking professions? Children at STEM For Kids medicine camp compare soluble tablets with coated pills.

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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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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

65: Stories From Podcasting School for Teachers Educators share their success stories about podcasting in the classroom and utilizing podcasts to share content with students. Podcasting School for Teachers was a live training that was shared on February 17th. Educators from a variety of levels joined to hear how to implement podcasts and podcasting into their classrooms.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Writing Bee is Back! Teachers can now conduct their own classroom Qualifying Sessions The folks at BoomWriter are at it again. It’s their fourth year conducting The Writing Bee , and this year they’ve structured the event so any teacher with students in Grades 4-6 can easily conduct their own classroom Qualifying session. Top performers from each class automatically qualify for The Writing Bee Finals and a chance to become The 2020 Writing Bee Champion!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Josemaría Carazo Abolafia, is an educational researcher and teacher who lives in Spain–and doesn’t own a car! He has a Masters in Ed from Penn State University (any Nittany Lion fans out there?) and is working on his EdD. Josemaria and I share the belief that “…[technology] must be transparent, like a lens; otherwise, it hinders learning.” Here’s his take on the use of videos in education: Multimedia content as a way to learni

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The potential impact of Virtual Reality (VR) in the classroom can’t be overstated. It has become the most exciting education device in a decade, enticing students to become engaged in pretty much any topic that includes a VR overlay. As a learning tool, it’s affordable, inclusive, and worth the moderate learning curve required to get it up and running.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I met Dr. Bill Morgan through a shared interest in keyboarding for youngers (see this article on A Conversation About Keyboarding and this article on Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach ). In each other, we found kindred spirits, both passionate about better ways to teach today’s learners. When Bill offered an article on a new class he started that helps English Language Learners, I was excited.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Here are the most-read posts for the month of January: #WorldReadAloudDay February 5. Ways to Use AI-Powered Quillionz to Assess Student Understanding. 5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons. 100th Day of School — Make it about Learning. How to Talk to a Tech Teacher (humorous). Lessons Learned My First 5 Years Of Teaching. Plagiarism Checkers: The Benefits Students Fail to See. 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2019.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

MTI 557: Building Digital Citizens. vv. Starts Monday, February 24th! Last chance to sign up. Click this link ; scroll down to MTI 557. Click for more information and to sign up. xx. If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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: Visit Foreign Language Google Search.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

I’ll never forget the day years ago when I stood in a donut shop, half asleep, bed head, with a monster sugar deficit. As I got to the front of the line, the man before me said, “I’ll pay for hers, too.” I didn’t know him. We hadn’t commiserated over how Krispy Kreme was always crowded. I’d just slogged onward, waiting my turn, eager to taste my apple fritter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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: The Internet Toolbar Disappeared.

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Today we will talk all about the most practical and engaging application of having technology in the classroom being the ability to empower your students to take charge of their learning by using podcasting in the classroom. I hope you stick around. Links Mentioned in the Show: Podcasting School for Teachers Virtual PD 61: 3 Powerful Reasons Why Teachers Should Be Podcasting 62: 3 Ways to Increase Engagement in the Classroom With Podcasting 63: Podcasting for Teachers: Where Do I Start?

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

63: Podcasting for Teachers: Where Do I Start? Integrating meaningful technology that enhances your instruction can sometimes be difficult to find. Podcasts and podcasting can be the very tool you need to cover standards, integrate technology, motivate learners, and get kids thinking and learning! Today I talk all about the first steps teachers take to get their students creating podcast episodes that share what they know and utilize standards and meaningful technology to cover content, offer ac

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CTE Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics is a high-demand career pathway Careers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics are exploding, and the industry is fast becoming one of the most popular career tracks. With competitive salaries, a range of specializations, and the opportunities the industry presents to work on cutting-edge projects that we utilize in our daily lives, a career in AI and robotics is worth exploring.

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STEM for Kids

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Morrisville, NC USA 2/3/20. Entrepreneur Franchise 500 has existed for over four decades and has become a dominant measuring tool for franchisees throughout the U.S. Entrepreneur Magazine evaluate factors such as brand strength, costs and scalability of a franchise to determine a position of the ranking. The franchises are given a cumulative score based on a 150 point analysis.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

TeachVid is an amazing online tool for learning foreign languages that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. TeachVid reminds me a tad like EDpuzzle where educators use interactive videos to assess student's learning. Also, educators can create a "virtual" classroom and create assignments that contain: videos, worksheets, etc. Finally, TeachVid makes it easy to flip a classroom or lesson and let student's learn at their own pace.

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