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Subscriber Special: August

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. August 1-10. 169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech into Your Class NOW. get 10% off with coupon code SUBSCRIBERSPECIAL. 169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech Into Your Class Now provides 1) an overview of the tech topics most important to your teaching, and 2) practical strategies to address common classroom tech problems.

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Moving From Lecture to Learning

The Innovative Educator

Think of something you’re really good at. Something that is important in your career and something you are proud of. It could be your ability to manage a classroom well. It could be that you have found the key to get children to begin reading. Maybe you are great at making videos. Whatever that thing is, take a minute to think about how you learned to be good at this thing.

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3 Smart Ways to Improve Parent-Teacher and Student-Teacher Communication This School Year

Science Teaching Junkie

As secondary educators, our list of responsibilities seems to grow exponentially every year. More paperwork, more tasks, more meetings. Why do we view communication as such a daunting task? I believe it has a lot to do with the amount of time it can take. On several occasions, I've contacted a parent at the beginning of my conference period, only to have the BELL end the conversation!

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Ohio student team creates water filter from litter

STEMx

Cross-posted from the. Ohio STEM Learning Network. To find students applying STEM learning to real-life problems, look no further than four Gahanna Middle School East eighth-graders. As their entry in an eCYBERMISSION competition sponsored by the Army Educational Outreach Program, the student team came up with a waste-saving, water-purifying idea that has garnered $25,000.

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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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Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of

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Animatron for Political Animations

Technology Tidbits

Animatron the amazing new and free site for creating custom animations has just released their "political" set. This set which contains all of the candidates running for office and other political figures is a great way to study/introduce Politics, the election process, US History, and more. Educators are using Animatron for digital storytelling, project based learning, and more.

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Announcing the STEMx Advisory Board

STEMx

by. Mike Feder. , STEMx Director. Today, I’m incredibly proud to announce to you a major step forward for STEMx. We’re announcing the first six members of the STEMx Advisory Board. The formal press release is below. I urge you to take a look at these six strong advocates for STEM. They’ll provide us detailed guidance moving forward. In particular, I want to draw your attention to the diversity of groups these leaders represent.

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How Do Non-Techie Parents Handle the Increasing Focus of Technology in Education?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Parents increasingly find technology a roadblock to tracking student progress in the classrooms. There are too many options, with too few instructions that seem to constantly change. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors summed it up like this: Most parents have some concerns about keeping up with the part of the digital revolution that has extended to their child’s classroom.

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Why Ask Why? 17 Different Types of Questions to Ask.

The Innovative Educator

I listened to a teacher explain his pleasure in his teaching method. He explained that the secret to his being a successful educator is that he asks students “Why?” The only question I had about this technique was “Why?” His answer was because his mastery of “Why” teaching has led his students developing the critical thinking necessary to pass the Common Core tests.

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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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Edventure Builder

Technology Tidbits

Edventure Builder is an innovative new site that is perfect for sparking student's creativity by providing a online platform for creating: scavenger hunts, interactive stories, or choose your own adventures. Also, this is a fantastic tool that educators can use to build mobile lessons, interactive tours (think Back to School night or outside activities), and more.

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What BloomBoard is and How it Energizes Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

BloomBoard is a professional development website for teachers and administrators. On the teacher side , educators learn, share, and discuss teaching ideas. The resources–including over 10,000 articles, videos, lesson plans, and more–are clear, easy-to-navigate, and user-friendly, with opportunities to collaborate with other teachers. What truly makes this educator-oriented site unique is that teachers can earn topical micro-credentials that can be used by their school district or st

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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: Padlet: A Versatile Classroom Tool y in the Classroom. 4 Ways to Use Podcasts in the Classroom. Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Digital Citizenship Curriculum. 10 Reasons to Screencast in Your Class and 7 Best-in-class Tools. Why is the Supreme Court So Important — and How to Explain That to Students.

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Using Your Headshot to Own Your Digital Image

The Innovative Educator

You've heard the stories. Raunchy photos result in people getting fired, kicked off the team or appearing less attractive potential mate. But what if you could make the images people find online, great? Innovative educators know you can with a headshot. Amy Brougher Milstein captured "the awesome" of winners of the Excellence in #NYCSchoolsTech awards by taking their headshots which they can now use in all their online platforms to set the stage for their story.

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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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The Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

This week’s hottest posts are dominated with tips on using social media. Read them and discover how to effectively use Facebook Live and what not to do. Learn why Twitter Scavenger Hunts are a fun activity to have at school events. Rounding out the top are the essential elements of a Twitter bio as well as advice on becoming Twitter famous. If any of these posts are of interest, check em out below and share with others using the buttons below on Twitter, Facebook, email or whichever platform you

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Buncee for Schools w/ Google Classroom Integration

Technology Tidbits

Buncee the amazing learning tool that educators and students are using worldwide to create stunning presentations, digital stories, eCards, announcements, and more, has just integrated w/ Google Classroom. This now means that Google Classroom users now have access to the advanced features of Buncee for Schools and Districts. Buncee is such an excellent tool for schools as educators can access and monitor student accounts, assess students and track their learning to help w/ differentiating instru

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Hop Star

Technology Tidbits

Hop Star is one of my favorite brand new iOS games for learning basic Math skills. Hop Star reminds me of the popular arcade/mobile game Crossy Roads (think a pixelated Frogger) designed for students grade 1st-5th. This super fun game has students hopping over a wide variety of items/animals (i.e. trucks, elephants, etc) while collecting coins. These coins can be used to unlock new characters and power-ups.

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emaze

Technology Tidbits

emaze is a new (beta) site for creating stunning presentations. This appears to be a cross between Prezi and PP as it allows users to interact w/ presentation and move around. As w/ most sites a user can add: text, images, audi, links, etc into their presentation. Best of all a finished presentation can then be embedded into a site/blog. I highly recommend checking out emaze for educators by clicking here !!!

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Trilo Spelling

Technology Tidbits

Trilo Spelling is a wonderful new (iOS/Google Play) for grades K-2. This is a fun phonics-based spelling game that has students trying to spell words w/ a variety of monster characters as well as working on their Reading skills. Trilo Spelling other highlights: The phonics sequence includes short vowels, consonant digraphs, FLoSS rule, and beginning and ending consonant blends.

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Visme

Technology Tidbits

Visme is a wonderful new (beta) site for creating beautiful looking interactive presentations, animations, infographics and more. This is a simple to use drag-n-drop site that educators can use in a wide variety of ways (i.e. announcements, project based learning, etc.). Best of all, a user has complete control over their content and has a wide range of controls from privacy setting, sharing (embedding), and more.