Sat.Aug 03, 2019 - Fri.Aug 09, 2019

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Subscriber Special: August

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get news to help their tech teaching. August: 3 Ways to Learn Digital Citizenship. so you can teach your students. Building Digital Citizens: Online college-credit 5-week class. Building Digital Citizens: Online certificate class delivered via Google Classroom (also available through Teachers Pay Teachers ).

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6 Tips for A More Accessible School & Classroom from @HabenGirma

The Innovative Educator

Haben Girma speaking to an audience of educators at an Accessibility Expo in Brooklyn, NY. View the video of her speaking. Are you doing everything possible to create an inclusive environment for your students? Haben Girma , author of Haben: The DeafBlind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law spoke to educators at an Accessibility Expo in New York City. She shared advice for making schools more accessible for students.

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39: Back-to-School Motivation

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

Back-to-School Motivation Today we talk all about getting into the right mindset for back-to-school. When we know that what we do has a purpose, we have to find ways to motivate and inspire ourselves to do the job well. In today’s episode, I share my God driven moments in teaching as well as some inspiring quotes from some brilliant people. I hope you will join me Also, I would love to hear all about your back-to-school journey.

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How Accessible is the Digital Learning Today?

Magic EdTech

Consider visiting a website just to realize it is off limits to you because you have a physical or intellectual disability. Online content is crucial for delivering information; with today’s technological advances, there is no reason anyone should be excluded. Government lawsuits have made it clear with fines and allowing major lawsuits to proceed that all users have a right to access, experience, and navigate online content ensuring inclusion for all.

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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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Online Class Starts Aug. 12th–Tech-infused Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher

MTI 562: The Tech-infused Teacher. Starts Monday, August 12, 2019! . Click to sign up. In MTI 562 The Tech-infused Teacher, you will use a suite of digital tools to make your lesson plans pop while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding.

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Helping computer science teachers find community

STEMx

When a frustrated teacher needs a colleague’s encouraging support, professional advice or reassuring hug, he or she might seek out another educator teaching the same subject or grade level in the school. But what if no one else in the building handles the same curriculum? Computer science teachers often can be the only one teaching that course in a school, or even an entire district.

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How Accessible is Accessible Learning Today?

Magic EdTech

Consider visiting a website just to realize it is off limits to you because you have a physical or intellectual disability. Online content is crucial for delivering information; with today’s technological advances, there is no reason anyone should be excluded. Government lawsuits have made it clear with fines and allowing major lawsuits to proceed that all users have a right to access, experience, and navigate online content ensuring inclusion for all.

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What You Might Have Missed in July

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of July: Great App for Future Readers: Word Zoo. Math Webtools to Support Any Curriculum. How to Help Students Find Their Passion. Wonder Workshop’s Amazing Dash. How Tech Enhances Class Performance. How to Do Student-led Conferences. 5 digital tools to enhance the writing skills of your students. 11+ Back-to-School Night Tips.

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Super Teacher Worksheets for Back to School

Technology Tidbits

Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for educators looking for printables, worksheets, puzzles, activities, and much much more. Also, all items are labeled if they are aligned to Common Core Standards and there are even generators/wizards for users to create their very own worksheets/puzzles/etc. Best of all, teachers can use STW for any subject and browse through 1000's of educational resources that can work for them.

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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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nawmal

Technology Tidbits

nawmal is an simple-to-use innovative site for digital storytelling and project based learning. nawmal is an excellent learning tool that educators are using in a wide variety of ways to integrate technology into their classroom, such as: introducing a topic, create animated videos, and much more. Best of all, nawmal can be used by any subject to teach any curriculum.

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NameCoach

Technology Tidbits

NameCoach is a wonderful web service that educators are using to learn student's names and pronounce them correctly. This is especially useful w/ school starting up and teachers want to learn the correct way to pronounce their student's names. The way this works is simple as a teacher creates a name/web page and then has the student's speak their names.

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Back to School with Buncee

Technology Tidbits

Buncee the amazing learning tool that educators around the world are using to integrate technology into the classroom has updated their list of ways to use Buncee w/ the school year approaching. Teachers are using Buncee for project based learning, to "flip" a lesson, digital storytelling, create beautiful presentations, and much much more. Best of all, Buncee Classroom their educational portal, allows educators to manage/monitor student projects, differentiate instructions, etc to engage studen

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TeachVid

Technology Tidbits

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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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!