Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2022

Every teacher knows the struggle of getting a class full of children to cooperate the first few weeks back after the long Christmas vacation break. If you’re looking to avoid going hoarse from shouting at distracted kids all day then you need an organized plan of action that will keep you and your pupils entertained whilst learning. This article is aimed at teaching children in the 4th and 5th grade so if that’s you, read on for our top lesson ideas to keep everyone happy, entertained, and ready

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Great Renegotiation is coming for schools. According to national data, schools are not facing greater teacher vacancies this year than in years past. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. And for good reason. Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020.

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Educators Technology

JANUARY 11, 2022

An online paraphrasing tool (a reword generator) is a tool that allows you to find better ways to reword or paraphrase your content. Students can use paraphrasing tools to help them enhance the.read more.

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Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2022

After all these years one would think I would know better. But it turns out that when coding for fun I don’t always do the planning that I should. It always comes back to hurt me. If you have been reading this blog lately you know that I have been playing with a Wordle solver. It’s going well. But. I started well. I identified several thins my solver should look for: Words that include letters I know are in the word Words that don’t include letters I know are not in the word.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Are you struggling with all the tech required for remote and hybrid teaching? Education Week shares what tech-savvy educators are using to make this work: 5 Practices of Truly Tech-Savvy Teachers. Education Week caught up with select teachers and instructional coaches who shared their thoughts on some essential practices to effectively implement technology into the practice of teaching.

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Educators Technology

JANUARY 10, 2022

Flipsnack is a platform that helps you create interactive flipbooks. Using a simple drag and drop editor you can instantly design visually attractive magazines, newspapers, eBooks, resumes,read more.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 13, 2022

The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk. *This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. By clicking on the links and making a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. The books we share with our students can cultivate an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. Providing exposure to a variety of books helps to show students that STEM is for everyone.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2022

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach about animals (click headings for more resources): Animals. African animals –research site for these animals. Alphabetimals –learn the alphabet with animal sounds. Animals. Audobon Bird Guide: North America (app). BrainPop Jr. Herd Tracker –watch the great migrations of East Africa in real time.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2022

Despite being capable of working a variety of jobs, people who are blind or visually impaired tend to have low job placement rates, low salaries and an unusually high underemployment rate. But some advocates say that more-accessible tech platforms could be a key to changing that. Typically, employment for the blind and visually impaired fall into either the low-skill, low-wage category or the professional jobs that require a college education category, says Edward Bell, the director of Louisiana

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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.

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Educators Technology

JANUARY 13, 2022

SplashLearn (previously Splash Math) is a game-based platform that offers curriculum-aligned materials for teaching math to students in kindergarten to grade 5. Teachers can create classes and.read more.

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Defined Learning

JANUARY 13, 2022

Many teachers and students have or are returning to face-to-face classrooms with Covid social distancing rules in effect. Wearing a face mask, staying six feet apart, and not sharing materials make group work and collaboration seem impossible. But there are ways to use technology and our space to still have social interactions and use groups to achieve tasks including Project Based Learning (PBL).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Alt+??? Brings up which Command? Category: MS Office, Keyboarding.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2022

Should schools be run like businesses? That’s a question that comes up a lot these days. At least one educator, though, worries that the arrangement is more of a misfit than even proponents of the idea might realize. This former high school teacher and current professor shared his thoughts in a Twitter thread today that got some attention. See a version here, published with permission.

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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!

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Educators Technology

JANUARY 10, 2022

Delta Math is a teacher-created math platform used by millions of students and teachers from all around the globe. Created in 2009 by a math teacher named Zach Korzyk, Delta Math has been such a.read more.

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Free Technology 4 Teachers

JANUARY 11, 2022

For many years ReadWriteThink offered a great collection of interactive templates for students to use to create all kinds of things including poems, story plots, timelines, compare & contrast maps, and much more. Unfortunately, the deprecation of Flash caused nearly all of the ReadWriteThink templates to stop working. That is until now! Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo's weekly Ed Tech Digest post , this morning I learned that ReadWriteThink has released updated versions of their popular student int

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2022

Every month, we’ll share themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired. This month: Reading. –for the entire collection of 65 posters, click here. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

For school leaders, life is always hectic at this time of year. We must ensure that loose ends are tied up before the end of the first semester. We’re finishing walk-throughs and mid-year observations for staff, overseeing school programs and sporting events, attending meetings, sending emails—and this doesn’t include any of the home obligations we have during the holiday season.

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Middle Web

JANUARY 9, 2022

Metaverse? Prebunking? Zombie claims? The rapid evolution of digital technology and methods of persuasion has unleashed a flood of words and phrases that need to be in students’ vocabularies. Media literacy expert Frank Baker offers examples from across current culture. The post Media Literacy Words to Intrigue Your Students first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Free Technology 4 Teachers

JANUARY 10, 2022

Yesterday morning I published a blog post about using the Read Aloud Chrome extension. In the introduction to that post I mentioned that I usually recommend using Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge if you need to regularly have webpages read aloud. A reader emailed me this morning to ask why I prefer Immersive Reader. Here's the short explanation that I gave.

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Robot Lab

JANUARY 14, 2022

By Sophie Isbell. Robots have been a point of fascination and study for centuries as researchers and inventors have sought to explore the potential for automated technology. While there’s a long history of the development and creation of autonomous machines, mobile, quadrupedal robots — or four-legged robotic dogs — have seen a significant boom in the last few decades.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

The brain is crucial to education, and most of us really don’t know much about how this organ works. Fortunately, we’re in a golden age of discovery when it comes to the brain, and there are even new disciplines emerging with new ways of thinking about the tool we use for thinking. On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re looking at an approach that comes out of physiology—the branch of biology that looks at how organisms function as a system.

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STEM Education Works

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s always good to try new things! Start this new semester with a fresh state of mind. Check out the best research-based pedagogical methodologies that you can take with you into the new year! . SEL: Social-Emotional Learning. SEL helps students develop skills in dealing “ effectively and ethically ” with daily behaviors and interactions.

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EiE Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Calling all educators! Are you looking for a STEM learning community? Collaboration? Professional development opportunities and resources from a trusted group of educators? Have you considered becoming an EiE Ambassador? Join our global professional learning community - today's a great day to check it out — for free!

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Box Light

JANUARY 14, 2022

The award-winning ProColor interactive display has announced new firmware release notes, including the addition of the MimioMessage app which turns the display into a communications tool. Users can use MimioMessage to broadcast messages, information, and alerts to staff, students, and visitors to a site (school, district offices, etc.). More information on this innovative app available on all ProColor displays will be coming soon!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

On March 18th, 2020, my principal pulled me into a meeting with the superintendent, principals, and assistant principals from other high schools in the district. I knew this meeting was important when I saw all the other administrators. The first words out of my principal’s mouth were, “we may have to close the school down for a few days.” After hearing this news, I was surprised and worried; we’d never had to close the school so abruptly before.

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Middle Web

JANUARY 10, 2022

Middle grades teacher Mona Iehl wants students to be able to “see themselves in math “and be represented in the work they do together. Learn how she uses the images and words of Black Mathematicians to empower and inspire her classes to welcome and master math challenges. The post Black History Figures Inspire Math Classes first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 13, 2022

*This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. By clicking on the links and making a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Can your elementary students help Rosie design, build, and test her flying machine? In the story, Rosie Revere, Engineer, by Andrea Beaty , Rosie is trying to build a flying machine. The trouble is, her first attempt doesn’t turn out as planned.

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Box Light

JANUARY 12, 2022

Mars exploration made strong advances in 2021. There were exciting missions to explore the Red Planet by several countries, such as China, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. The exploratory missions include analyzing the atmosphere, mapping out the planet’s magnetic field, searching for water and ice, and scouting the land and rock formations.

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