Educators Technology
JANUARY 16, 2018
January 16, 2018 In yesterday’s post we talked about grading and we featured a number of apps to help teachers with their grading. In today’s post we cover a closely related concept: rubrics.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 17, 2018
Technology remains–still–a love-hate relationship between teachers and teaching. Yes, it enriches learning but at the price of too many problems, preparation required, and confusion. I l ike Felicia Zorn’s summary of how that go-nogo decision really has become ‘get with the program’ Teacher Support in the Digital-Blended Classroom.
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The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 17, 2018
Innovative educators understand that when posts have images they receive more views and provide a better experience for the reader. What they may not realize is that is only the beginning. You also should describe your images. There are two primary reasons for that. 1) Search Image Optimization (SEO) 2) Accessible to those who can't see images because they are visually impaired or because of bandwidth issues.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 16, 2018
Emaptico is a new learning tool that connects teachers and classrooms around the world. Empatico reminds me of a cross between Skype and Wiziq and is a great way for educators to easily teach online classes. The way this works is a students selects their desired activities, availability, and then get selected w/ a teacher. Best of all, Empatico has lots of free resources for teachers to use while interacting w/ their online.
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.
Educators Technology
JANUARY 17, 2018
January 17, 2018 Spelling is a learned activity that requires formal/informal teaching and practice. You may pick up the oral part of a target language relatively easily (depending on your cognitive.read more.
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The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 14, 2018
In a world where so many right-hearted people spend so much time and money on social interventions meant to help, doesn’t it make sense to figure out which ones work and which ones don’t? That’s the question economist Stephen J. Dubner explored on an episode of his Freakonomics radio show called “ When Helping Hurts.” Dubner took a look at a longitudinal study that began during the Great Depression and is still going on today.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 16, 2018
Storyboard That the amazing site that educators are using for creating timelines, graphic organizers, digital stories, storyboards, project based learning, and much much more, just released their Illustrated Guides. These one cell storyboards are great for teaching any number of subjects such as: Mythology, Literature, History, and more. I highly recommend checking out Storyboard That's Illustrated Guides by clicking here !!!
Educators Technology
JANUARY 15, 2018
January 15, 2018 The rise of mobile technologies has triggered an unprecedented learning/teaching revolution. They (mobile technologies) have destroyed boundaries, opened up new learning.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 15, 2018
Because AATT is a resource blog, we share lots of tips our group comes across in their daily teaching as well as materials shared by others we think you’d like. Some you agree with; others, not so much. Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2017: Top 10 Tech Tips. As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems which I share with you.
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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.
STEMx
JANUARY 15, 2018
Did you know that the performing arts can improve performance in math? So says the educators at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. A professional development program at the foundation’s education arm teams classroom teachers with specially trained performing artists to blend arts education with math lessons. The young children exposed to this hybrid curriculum have tallied much-improved math scores.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 14, 2018
ClassDojo the widely used (free) tool for behavior management and communication for education now offers Student Stories. Student Stories is a new way for students to create digital portfolios and share them w/ others. More info from their press release. Students take the lead - students can share and celebrate their learning by snapping photos of projects, taking videos of presentations, and writing reflections.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 18, 2018
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: #78–Save a File so Everyone Can Read it.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 17, 2018
Actively Learn is a site I'm just finding out about that is an excellent resource for educators looking to increase comprehension and "depth" of any text. AL reminds me a lot of EDpuzzle but instead of "making a video your own" it is "making reading material your own". This can be done using any text and lets educators track student's learning and understanding of a passage through the use of asking questions, annotating, collaborating, and more all in real-time.
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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!
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 17, 2018
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.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 15, 2018
Codemoji is a innovative new website for grades 1st-8th grade learning how to code or program. CodeMoji is an excellent learning tool to introduce html, CSS, and Javascript, while integrating STEM into the classroom. Best of all, it makes coding fun and easy to learn through the use of emojis. Also, the educational portal or teacher/student dashboard makes tracking student's data/progress easy to do.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 15, 2018
Owl Eyes is an innovative site that lets teachers create "classrooms" where their students can read and interact w/ texts. Student's are able to select through a wide variety of literature and then annotate the text. This is helpful as they can take notes and pickup right where they left off when reading. Best of all, the teacher tools allows educators to create quizzes to assess how students are doing and they can even track/manage their student accounts.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 14, 2018
MathTango is a wonderful new/free iOS app for addition and subtraction grades 1st-3rd. MathTango uses Gesame Based Learning through 20+ levels of solving puzzles and equations. As a student progresses through the game they will unlock more monsters, levels, and features, while "building" their own unique island. MathTango tracks student data and makes it easy for parents and educators to reinforce basic Math skills.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 14, 2018
Reading Racer is a free new iOS app that I just had the pleasure of reviewing. This is an excellent easy-to-use app that uses the mobile device's microphone to "listen" as a student speaks the words on the screen. This is really innovative and separates Reading Racer from other educational apps on the market. Reading Racer is designed for kids ages 5-8 and uses speech recognition as the user speaks the words/sentences as fast as they can.
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