Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
There’s a reason why the brain uses 25% of the calories you eat: Thinking is hard work. Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons. Worse, you’re either right or wrong with no gray areas.
Educators Technology
SEPTEMBER 15, 2018
Google Drive is in a continuous flux in terms of the functionalities and built-in features it offers to its users. A great deal of these features are especially useful for us in education. In this.
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The Innovative Educator
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Cross posted at the #NYCSchoolsTech blog. Educators share the value in developing expertise and showing what they know via #EdTech recognition programs like the #NYCSchoolsTech Partner Certification Program. This program allows educators to develop expertise and receive recognition from companies like Common Sense Education, Google, Apple, Microsoft, PBS/WNET, BrainPop, SoundTrap, and more.
STEMx
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
How do America’s STEM scientists and researchers dismantle the “ivory tower” idea? What potentially game-changing breakthroughs are these dedicated men and women working on? Answering such questions is the aim of a program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy research facility operated by Battelle, is training some of its scientists and researchers how to explain their work to regular folks.
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
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
New teachers quickly realize that one size doesn’t fit all in the classroom. Students are wonderfully different in the way they learn, listen, and absorb. While teaching to the majority sounds good superficially, let’s look at the math: A majority is 51%. That means 49% may not get what you put out there. The popularity of personalized learning makes it abundantly clear that those numbers just aren’t good enough anymore.
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The Innovative Educator
SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
Parent-teacher conferences provide a way for staff and families to better to connect to support students. They can also be stressful for all parties involved. Parents and teachers may be nervous about what the other will say to them about the child. To make conferences more pleasant and strengthen relationships remember the importance of promoting good will.
Magic EdTech
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Accessibility is a buzzword today, with minds across the globe thinking of how they can make their digital learning products more accessible according to international standards. Enter WCAG. WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is an internationally established set of guidelines for accessible content on the Internet. This act ensures that access to communications, services, and the information is protected as a fundamental human right.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Homework has come under fire the last few years as data surfaced that seemed to support the conclusion that homework is a waste of time. The traditional goals — that homework reinforces school work, provides additional practice on difficult topics, and involves the family — seemed to fall away under the onslaught of naysayers and their numbers.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
"Self-paced instruction or learning is any kind of instruction that proceeds based on learner response. The content itself can be curriculum, corporate training, technical tutorials, or any other subject that does not require the immediate response of an instructor. Self-paced instruction is constructed in such a way that the learner proceeds from one topic or segment to the next at their own speed.
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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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
This is not part of the 169 tech tips for your class book but it will be when I update the ebook: Tech Tip #171: Ctrl+0 returns your screen to normal. Often, readers or friends push their computers in my face, frantic because they can’t see all of the screen. It bleeds off the edges. “I use Ctrl- to zoom out–like you said–but I can’t get it back to where it used to be, the way I like reading it!
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
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 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 all stakehol
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Klassroom is a free mobile (Android/iOS) that I just found out about for parent Monica Burns. Klassroom reminds me of a cross between Remind and ClassDojo where educators can share: photos, videos, documents, or events w/ parents in a secure environment. Also, this is a great way for teachers and parents to inform each other of field trips, student absences, and more. communication/engagement from Below is a brief demo.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Modern Chalkboard is a wonderful new free site for finding SMART board resources. This is a great place to find interactive lessons on a wide variety of subjects such as: Math, Grammar, Science, Social Studies, and more Also, this is a nice place to find other resources such as links and help files. I highly recommend checking out Modern Chalkboard by clicking here !!!
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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
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Edji is an innovative site for annotating texts for collaborative learning that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Edji lets users read a online text and then interact w/ it by: highlighting passages, annotate w/ text, images, or emojis, and, more. Educators can then view a "heat map" which shows highlighting being done in real-time that helps them differentiate instruction and assess student's understanding.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
UMU is a fantastic site and mobile app (iOS/Android) for "self paced learning" and "mobile learning" that I just found out about from the innovative educator Naomi Harm. UMU can be used in a number of different ways such as: creating quizzes/polls, adding voiceovers to slides, create infographics or live broadcasts, and much much more. Also, UMU is a excellent way to assess an audience/students and can be used for professional development and blended learning.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Design Wizard is an excellent site for making beautiful looking presentations. Design Wizard has a very user-friendly interface where all a user has to do is select a template where they can customize anything such as: images, videos, audio, and more. Best of all, a user can share/embed their presentation online, download it, or even print it out. Below is a brief demo.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Project Rush is the new video editing app from Adobe that I just found out about from the amazing Ed Tech Specialist Clara Galan. Project Rush looks to be similar to iMovie for creating, editing, and sharing movies online. Be sure to sign up for Project Rush's private beta by clicking here !!!
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Vocab Victor is an innovative mobile (iOS/Android) app for building vocabulary words/skills that I just found out about from the wonderful blog, Class Tech Tips. Vocab Victor uses "game based learning" to help students develop their vocabulary. These games offer high replay as well as different varieties of game play, such as: matching, sorting, targeting, and more.
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