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How to Use Tech to Help Graduating Students Find Jobs

Ask a Tech Teacher

The end of the school year means graduation for seniors. If they aren’t going to college, they’re job hunting. Sara Stringer, Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, has several ideas on how to make that more efficient: As a teacher, you’re fully aware of how much the world is advancing through technology. Undoubtedly, innovation has touched many aspects of how you teach.

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A Framework for Implementing Maker Education Activities Presentation

User Generated Education

I am facilitating two mini-workshops at ASCD Empower 17 and the 2017 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence on using a framework for implementating maker education activities. The description for my session is: Providing a framework for maker activities helps ensure that their use is intentional and that meaningful learning is extracted from these experiences.

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Tools to get your message heard

STEMx

Just a few weeks ago, we unveiled. a major re-design to the STEMx website, including a major expansion to our list of. STEMx-endorsed resources. We invested in these upgrades (and devoted a full section of the resources to communications) having getting your messages heard matters. It takes serious time, practice, and energy to be heard. We aren’t done yet.

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Five Keys To Project Based Learning PBL Video

CTE Learning

I remember watching this video when it first came out in 2014. Edutopia did a fantastic job of succinctly stating the key elements of a truly impactful PBL experience. Our teachers will see all that we do jump out at them as they watch this video. It is not rocket science. Nevertheless, it can include some rocket science (mmm – got me dreaming now).

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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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Beneylu School: A Clever LMS for your School

Ask a Tech Teacher

Beneylu is a K-8 online learning platform that puts critical classroom applications, resources, activities, and games in a secure online universe that is accessible to parents, teachers, and students. The goal is to make learning not only smoothly-delivered but adaptable and intriguing for everything. The brightly-colored friendly Beneylu platform provides a web-based classroom with intuitive learning resources and student-friendly apps.

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Creating NGSS-Aligned Performance Tasks – Part 1

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

Whether you’re at the end of the unit or want to check for understanding earlier, performance tasks provide a way to gauge students’ abilities to engage in scientific thinking and use their content knowledge. It’s difficult to truly determine their depth of understanding of a concept or their ability to create scientific models and explanations through multiple choice or brief-response questions.

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Texas’ Next Generation of App Entrepreneurs and Coders are getting started at United South High School

CTE Learning

Laredo Tx – To kick off their new STEAM course, Jaime DeLeon’s students met with some of the development team behind the new Web and Mobile Application Course. Mr. DeLeon arranged the meeting to give his students the opportunity to hear what it is like to be JavaScript App coders, get a peek at the apps they would be creating, and to ask questions about the Industry Certification they could earn.

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The Effect Of Cloud Computing Technology On Today’s Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Using the cloud to store, share, and collaborate in the classroom is relatively new. A decade ago, accessing schoolwork from home was just about impossible. Now, it’s easy through sites like Google Drive and OneDrive. Mary Davis, a guest writer for Ask a Tech Teacher, specializes in cloud computing. Here are her thoughts on how cloud computing is transforming today’s education: Cloud computing technology is certainly having its moment these days.

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3 Hottest Posts Most Popular On The Innovative Educator

The Innovative Educator

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! What’s hot this week? Fighting fake news, increasing parent engagement, and ePortfolios. Making its way to the top for the first time is a post that points to four fabulous sites you can turn to fight fake news.

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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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Boogie Bot

Technology Tidbits

Boogie Bot is a super-fun free app (iOS/Google Play) that teaches kids how to program/code. This is done w/ the familiar-friendly technique of dragging-and-dropping blocks of code to make your robot dance. This is great for educators introducing and teaching concepts of programming and ideal for STEM. Also, students can build their own robot, customize their dance floor, and even record their own video.

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Indian Creek High School (OH) – Beating the Monday Blues with a Designers Meeting in Johnna P’s Web Design Class

CTE Learning

Johnna Provenzano’s Web Design students at Indian Creek High School (OH) got the week started off with a Designer’s Meeting. Johnna wanted to give her students a quick boost and arranged the meeting with some of the development team at CTeLearning.com. She knew her students are at the point where they are beginning to create websites for the corporate clients, and they wanted to chat about getting started with creating the brand and product narrative.

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169 Tech Tip #127: 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes

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: #127–12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes.

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5 Innovative School Models You Might Not Know

The Innovative Educator

When it comes to education, innovation is nothing new. Innovative models have been around but forgotten in the current climate of accountability and standardization. Before that there were models, like Montessori, that were more well known. These are models where students work on projects, learning is assessed with real-world measures, and the curriculum was customized to the student rather than standardized.

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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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DimensionU

Technology Tidbits

DimensionU is one of my favorite companies for Game Based Learning. These games take place in an interactive 3D virtual world where students strengthen their Math/Literacy skills. The games are designed for kids grades 3rd-9th and are aligned to Common Core Standards. Here are a list of DimensionU games. Watch the videos below to see all 4 AMAZING DimensionU Games in action: Meltdown is the DimensionU game that offers students a second chance when answering difficult questions, and rewards creat

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How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students learn best when they are relaxed, happy, and feeling loved. It is challenging to include those characteristics in classes when you are concurrently trying to achieve school goals, comply with curriculum timelines, juggle parent concerns, and blend your lessons with those of colleagues. This is where mindfulness becomes important. It reminds teachers that the fulcrum for learning is the student’s emotional well-being.

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KingCitation

Technology Tidbits

KingCitation is a wonderful site for generating bibliographies in a wide range of formats. It allows users to cite digital or print resources by simply entering data into a citation generator. Also, a user can export their bibliographies into a Word or RTF document. I highly recommend checking out KingCitation by clicking here !!!

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30hands News

Technology Tidbits

The other day 30hands Learning the company for the widely used iOS app (30hands Starter) has announced the discontinuation of their free version. As w/ most Ed Tech tools this is a necessity to help keep companies afloat and to continue to update their products w/ the most effective features. More information on this and their transition to their paid iOS/web solution can be found here.