Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

Orton-Gillingham started over seventy years ago as an instructional approach intended for those with difficulty reading, spelling, and writing, like what children experience in dyslexia. Sometimes, teachers recognized the special needs of a reading-challenged student, but just as often, it was blamed on disinterest or lack of effort, leaving the child to conclude s/he “just wasn’t good at reading.” When those same children were taught to read using the Orton-Gillingham (O-G) ap

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 19, 2017

#NYCSchoolsTech teacher Eileen Lennon took the post I wrote on tips for connecting at education conferences and turned it into this beautiful infographic which we will share with participants at our upcoming #NYCSchoolsTech Summit. Check it out and I hope it provides some good ideas for your next learning event.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 16, 2017

Innovative educators who are fortunate enough to present at or attend an education event, have a moral imperative to share what they are learning beyond that day and that building. There is a whole community out there thirsty for the knowledge that you had the opportunity to receive. A powerful way to share learning is by livestreaming using Periscope.TV.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 15, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here’s what’s hot: Addressing diversity and bias. Making its way to the top for the first time is a post with ideas for inviting diversity into professional learning events and opportunities. Next up is a post that looks at one organization’s strategy to address bias and privilege and launch students to success.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2017

STEAM–Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math–is education’s new STEM. By adding the creativity and problem-solving skills that are part and parcel to Anything Art, students have permission to use colors, images, and outside-the-lines thinking to address Big Ideas and Essential Questions. I’ve written before on ways to use STEM every day in classwork.

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