Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 23, 2019
When I started teaching, videos were a rarity. Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
OCTOBER 24, 2019
It’s that time of year! Time for spooky and silly, candy and dressing up. Halloween can be super fun in the elementary classroom or it can be a hot mess. Either way, here are some great books and Makerspace Moments in Literature to get your spook on! It’s that time of year! Time for spooky and silly, candy and dressing up. Halloween can be super fun in the elementary classroom or it can be a hot mess.
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CTE Learning
OCTOBER 22, 2019
**This post is derived from recently updated content in our AI and Mobile Robotics Course** Growth Sophia, an intelligent humanoid robot, has been granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. It’s the first country in the world to give a bot the same status reserved for humans. The explosive growth of technology in our society and economy has shifted how we work, and it has created jobs that didn’t exist just a few years ago.
Bright and Smart
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Our Posterity = Our Children Posterity comes from Middle English posterite, from Anglo-French pusterite, from Latin posterus ("coming after"). What would talking about Space be if we left out talking about the stars! These twinkling little objects have been written about, sung about and wished upon, but do children understand what a star is? When we look up into the night sky, stars and planets appear to look alike, but besides their illuminating presence, they do not have anything in common.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 25, 2019
Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps: Websites and Apps. Carving Pumpkins. Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents magazine – Resolute Digital, LLC (app).
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STEMx
OCTOBER 24, 2019
To address the most important challenges in STEM education, the STEMx network brings together leading organizations. Today, we’re announcing the winners of our latest STEMx Challenge Grants. Read the detailed press release from Battelle for more information about the grant and the commitments made by each state. STEMx network invests in state innovations, including rural STEM education.
Magic EdTech
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Dedicated and enthusiastic teachers play a significant role in shaping the lives of our future generations. They have done so through the years, despite significant challenges. Although technology has disrupted practically every sphere of our lives, it has been late to make its mark on the education sector , leaving teachers at the mercy of antiquated instruction methods.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 21, 2019
When I started teaching, videos were used only for a few reasons: to teach historical events, as a prize for something students did well, or for the sub to fill the time while I was out. A lot has changed since then, most importantly, teachers now recognize that students learn in a variety of ways, only one of which is via text. Why use videos. It turns out, videos are much more than the distraction from life Hollywood would have us believe or the visual encyclopedia those educational movies of
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Memrise is a fun mobile (iOS/Android) app for learning foreign languages. This is done through Game Based Learning as a user plays through a variety of games such as: speed review, listening skills, difficult words, and classic reviews. Also, there are lots of resources to help learn a language such as chatbots and videos from actual foreign language speakers.
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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.
Magic EdTech
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Dedicated and enthusiastic teachers play a significant role in shaping the lives of our future generations. They have done so through the years, despite significant challenges. Although technology has disrupted practically every sphere of our lives, it has been late to make its mark on the education sector , leaving teachers at the mercy of antiquated instruction methods.
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Edpuzzle the world's leading digital tool for taking a video and making it your "own" has released a bunch of new updates for the upcoming school year. New Features Live Mode - project Edpuzzle videos up on a screen and have student answer questions in real-time on their won devices easily assess and differentiate instruction Open Class - student's can join an existing class w/out having to create an account ideal for PD or El Ed students LMS Integration - Edpuzzle synce w/ most popular LMS such
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 22, 2019
ShowMe is an excellent free mobile (iOS, Android, Chromebook) app for creating beautiful looking screencasts, or "flipping" a lesson/classroom. ShowMe provides an interactive whiteboard to allow educators or students to create lessons, presentations, etc. while recording and narrating their own voiceover. Best of all, a finished product can then be shared online in ShowMe's educational community where other users can find, share, or embed, other screencasts.
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 22, 2019
DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Events, etc.) where educators can then select lesson plans, create assignments, and help students increase their Reading and Vocabulary skills.
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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
OCTOBER 21, 2019
The Globe of Extremes is a very cool interactive globe that has "hot keys"/plots w/ interesting facts about extreme information in the world. For example, if you wanted to learn about what the highest populated city is away from an ocean or the lowest point below sea level is on earth, this would be the place to go. I highly recommend checking out the Globe of Extremes by clicking here !!!
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Socrates is an innovate new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction for each student through a unique game based learning system. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more.
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 24, 2019
30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS app that is ideal for digital storytelling 30hands Pro. The 30hands community is a perfect cloud based solution that allows educators to: manage/track students, hand in/out assignments, schedule events, and more. While the mobile is being used in education for project based learning, digital storytelling, and more.
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Formative is a great standards-aligned way to go paperless in your classroom for all your assessments. You can easily and quickly transform your current files onto Formative and start getting live results from students. Students can show their work and receive your feedback in real-time. I highly recommend checking out Formative by clicking here !!!
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