Sat.Nov 28, 2020 - Fri.Dec 04, 2020

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Students decide: PC or Mac

Ask a Tech Teacher

If your school’s digital devices extend beyond Chromebooks and iPads, here’s a good discussion about the strengths-weaknesses of Macs and Pcs, from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor: Students often decide between PCs and Macs. As a teacher, you’re probably often asked for advice from students who shop for their first computers: “Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

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Celebrating The World Disability Day

Magic EdTech

Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020: Also called World Disability Day and the theme for this year is ‘Building back better: towards an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world by, for and with persons with disabilities. . World disability day 2020 aims to further increase the awareness about people with disabilities while celebrating their achievements and contributions .

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Otus

Technology Tidbits

Otus is an ideal tool for Remote Learning w/ schools being closed. Their learning platform makes it easy for educators to build dynamic engaging lessons, deliver instruction, and then assess student learning. Otus is a all-in-one mobile learning solution for schools that combines the best features of a: learning management system, data management system, and more.

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Air pollution spikes linked to lower test scores for Salt Lake County third graders

K-12 Education News

More frequent exposure to air pollution spikes were associated with reduced test scores for third graders in Salt Lake County. Schools with a higher proportion of students of color and from households experiencing poverty were exposed to more peak pollution days than were schools serving middle- to upper- class and predominately white students. The results stress the need for legislators to enact policies to reduce the number of peak pollution days.

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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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Here’s a Preview of December

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in December: More Hour of Code projects, websites, resources. Unplugged activities for coding. Subscriber Special. Holiday activities to keep the learning going. Holiday gifts for teachers. End-of-year maintenance–speeding up computers, updating your online precense. Have Santa call your kids.

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The Power of A Gift to Maydm

Maydm

By Than Astin. We are Thrilled to announce Than as our newest board member. Than worked as an art teacher after college, then went on to work with Apple for 18 years, before retiring in 2019. At the end of a year like 2020 there are people looking to give something back in ways that have lasting impact. There are many choices when it comes time to give.

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Sales Spotlight: Stef Morris

Informed K12

What is your title, and how long have you worked here? I’ve worked at Informed K12 since August 2019 and while my formal title is Head of Sales, I consider our team to be more focused on building strong partnerships with school districts - not selling for the sake of revenue.

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Hour of Code? Here’s why to participate

Ask a Tech Teacher

December 7-12th, 2020, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Coding is that mystical geeky subject that confounds students and teachers alike.

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105: OTT: Countdown to Christmas

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

105: Countdown to Christmas The last few weeks before Christmas can be tough in the Elementary Classroom. Today we talk all about ways to make the last few weeks meaningful and fun! We are counting down to Christmas. I hope you will join us. Links Mentioned in the Show: Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendar Activity ? Holidays Matter (States of Matter) Christmas Around the World Lapbook Christmas Makerspace The last few weeks before Christmas can be tough in the Elementary Classroom.

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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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A Holiday Toy List to End All Toy Lists (or at least ours …)

Start-Engineering

Eric Iversen. A swan song We published our first list of engineering toys six years ago, 11 Toys to Excite the Engineer in Any Kid. It became the most-visited page on our website. By a lot. Like, by a factor of four. STEM toys already commanded great interest in 2014, and our list struck a chord because it was one of the first to take an engineering-specific approach to the topic.

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2020 Hour of Code Resources + Unplugged Coding Activity

Vivify Stem

2020 Hour of Code Resources & Distance Learning Activities Schools across the world will participate in an Hour of Code on December 7-13th as part of Computer Science Education Week. Check out our must-watch inspirational coding videos plus low-prep activities perfect for social distancing or distance learning. **This post includes Affiliate Links.

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What You Might Have Missed in November

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of November: How to Put Kindness in Your Classes. National STEM/STEAM Day Nov. 8th. Four Stages of Keyboarding Growth. 16 Sites, 3 Apps, 7 Projects for Thanksgiving. Should Coding be a Part of the Modern School’s Curriculum? –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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How do you build a Learning Space for All? Low Floor, High Ceiling

CoderZ

The Importance of Inclusive STEM. Over the last two decades, STEM has become a buzzword synonymous with progressive 21st-century learning. First introduced by the National Science Foundation as a more palatable version of their STEM efforts, STEM education quickly became a measure of school performance, as shown by the growing number of federal, state and private certifications available to schools with distinguished programs.

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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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Impactful science teaching requires minimum five hours instruction weekly

K-12 Education News

Middle-grades science teachers that dedicate a minimum of five hours of instructional time to science each week are more likely to implement inquiry-based teaching, a best practice among science and education experts, in their classrooms. Roughly a third of U.S. classrooms meet that mark.

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I Know It

Technology Tidbits

I Know It is a fantastic site for interactive Math lessons grades K-5th. This is a super fun easy to use site for practice on a wide range of topics, such as: place value, multiplication, counting coins, time, and more. Best of all, I Know It allows educators to assign lessons and track student progress to make it easy to differentiate instruction. I highly recommend checking out I Know It by clicking here !!!

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Socrates for Remote Learning

Technology Tidbits

Many schools are now realizing they do not have the tools in place so kids can continue to learn while schools are closed. Socrates personalized learning for the students so they are progressing automatically, and provides teachers with tools to monitor progress and assign topics. Teachers can control the learning remotely or just allow Socrates to adjust automatically - making it a perfect tool for teachers with closed classrooms.

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Microsoft Math

Technology Tidbits

Microsoft Math is an excellent free mobile (iOS/Google Play) app for all things Math grades K-12. All a user had to do is scan, type, or draw a math problem to get a answer and other results. Also, Microsoft Math generates detail step-by-step instructions on how to solve the problem, videos, graphs, and more. Finally, Microsoft Math lets teachers create printable Math worksheets for their students to use.

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Verse by Verse

Technology Tidbits

Verse by Verse is an excellent site for creating poetry that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. The way this works is a student selects a famous Poet and then types the first line and Verse by Verse's AI generates ideas for writing the next line. I highly recommend checking out Verse by Verse by clicking here !!!

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Chronicle Cloud

Technology Tidbits

Chronicle Cloud is an innovative educational all-in-one iOS app for teachers. Educators can use Chronicle Cloud in a number of different ways such as: assessing (using their "traffic light" system), note-taking, providing feedback, and much much more. Also, being on the "cloud" teachers can collaborate and share best "teaching" practices in an easy way.

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Education Blueprint

Technology Tidbits

Education Blueprint is a wonderful place for educators to find, rate, and share educational resources. This is done a very user friendly way where resources are curated in a wide number of ways (i.e. media, books, podcasts, etc.). Also, this is a great place for teachers to rate/review websites and apps, and even upload resources that they have used themselves.

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Arludo

Technology Tidbits

Arludo is an excellent site to create/find educational games and more. Arludo, is a great learning tool that is ideal for teaching Math or Science w/ lots of features for educators such as: generating detail reports, tools to differentiate instruction, and integrating game based learning into the classroom. Arludo has a nice collection of games that focuses on Math/Science areas like: evolution, ecosystems, molecules, and more.

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Blooket

Technology Tidbits

Blooket is an excellent new site that uses Game Based Learning to help students learn their subjects. Blooket is very easy to use and provides teachers w/ an educational portal that allows them to track and monitor student progress while generating detailed reports. Also, educators can create their own educational games or join an existing one (i.e. racing, battle royale, etc.

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Super Teacher Worksheets for Winter

Technology Tidbits

Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator. I highly recommend checking out Super Teacher Worksheets by clicking here !!!

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Knowt

Technology Tidbits

Knowt is an excellent Learning Management System that lets educators automatically create assignments that I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. Knowt educational portal allows teachers to track/monitor students, share notes, and generate assignments from uploaded documents, PDFs, etc. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Knowt by clicking here !!!

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Mobile Permissions

Technology Tidbits

Mobile Permissions is a fantastic new free tool for educators to virtual send parents permissions slips. Mobile Permissions makes it easy for teachers to send any type of permission slip form to a parents/guardians phone or mobile device. They can then electronically sign and submit payment while educators can track/monitor to it all from their teacher portal.

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iDialouge

Technology Tidbits

iDialouge is an excellent site for educators looking for an alternative to Zoom. This is a great place for educators to teach remotely by creating virtual classrooms w/ built-in conferencing tools. Also, teachers can record lectures, create lessons/quizzes/polls, and use it for "self paced learning and flipped learning". I highly recommend checking out iDialouge by clicking here !!!

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30hands Learning

Technology Tidbits

30hands Pro is the excellent iOS app for project based learning, flipping a classroom, and digital storytelling. Educators are using 30hands to integrate technology in a easy and seamless way. • New Features in Pro: — Enhanced Drawing with Editing, Adding Images to canvas, Layering Images, more! (Basic Drawing is still there, too) — Share-a-Slide to create a single slide video — Stop Motion is easier with settings and Enhanced Drawing — Storyboarding is faster and easier • New icons from Font Aw