Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 20, 2016
Tell me if this sounds familiar: With the 2016 New Year, you resolved to build your Professional Learning Network –finally, to stop living in the 20th century where your world revolved around a sticks-and-bricks building, a landline phone, and the mailbox. You joined all the big social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, blogging–just for starters).
The Innovative Educator
APRIL 17, 2016
Innovative educators and students alike understand that genius can’t be measured by a bubble test or a writing exercise that has no audience or purpose. Now that the standardized tests are over for the year, students no longer are confined to hours of reading and answering questions about stuff others find important. Out with the test prep and in with experience.
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CTE Learning
APRIL 19, 2016
This was a big morning for two people in two different parts of the country. Delavan-Darien High School student Lucas D. got to meet his first paying client Leesa. They met when Leesa took Lucas on a walking tour of her property. Lucas is currently a student in Marty Speth’s Sustainable Landscape Design course in Delavan WI. Leesa, the client, is in Kansas City a little over 500 miles away.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 22, 2016
Lyrics2learn uses Hip-hop and rock to boost K-5th grade reading fluency, and offers 4 levels of interactive comprehension practice. Kids read along with rappers and rockers during each lesson. Kids memorize quickly while learning about about character building, history, science, and grammar and boost reading skills. Each fluency video is followed by 4 levels of interactive comprehension.
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
APRIL 19, 2016
Because I teach graduate classes for educators, I talk to lots of teachers all over the country. It’s become clear to me that for most of them, adding technology to their lessons means layering more work on top of their already overburdened lesson plans. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 22, 2016
In response to extensive interest from readers, Ask a Tech Teacher will be offering four Summer Learning classes: 1 of 4 Certificate classes. 1 of 4 Certificate classes. 1 of 4 Certificate classes. 1 of 4 Certificate classes. June 20th through August 7th. 3-4 weeks, lots of resources and hands-on help. You can find out more by clicking on the image.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 18, 2016
Math Quest is a fun RPG style game for El Ed ages kids learning basic Math skills (i.e. addition, subtraction, etc.). Like most RPGs a user can create a character and then level up by battling monsters. As a user gains skill points, money, and items a user can level up purchase items, learn magic, equip their player, etc etc. Also, there are fun side quests to go on and a student has the ability to save their progress.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 18, 2016
EDpuzzle is vastly becoming one of the premiere web/iOS tools around for learning in the classroom. This is fantastic free tool for editing a video, cropping, adding quizzes/poll s, narration, etc. then embedding into site/blog. It is being used to flip a classroom or lesson, Project Based Learning, grading/assessing, and even for differentiating instruction.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 18, 2016
30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS apps that are ideal for digital storytelling ( 30hands Starter (free), 30hands Pro (paid)). The 30hands community is a perfect cloud based solution that allows educators to: manage/track students, hand in/out assignments, sched ule events, and more.
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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.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 22, 2016
Spellspire is a new free iOS word game that I can't stop playing. This is a fun game that is like a combination of Boggle meets a RPG, where in a user can earn money and then buy different items to equip their player. As a user advanced up the tower, monsters get harder and harder, and a player has to spell words faster and faster. This can be a fun way to introduce Game Based Learning into the classroom, is great for centers, and has high replay value.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 18, 2016
Reading is defined as “ the action or skill of absorbing written or printed matter silently or aloud.” Sounds dry, maybe even boring, but once a child learns to read, they get much more than an understanding of words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. They get an escape from reality, exercise for their brains, a closeness to like-minded souls, answers to problems–and reading can even predict success in school.
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