Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

There’s always been something mystical about people in technical professions–engineering, science, mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of mathematical functions, even smile at the mention of calculus. The teaching profession has their own version of these individuals, called ‘technology teachers’ They used to be stuffed in a corner of the school where most teachers could pretend they didn’t exist, that what they did was for

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 18, 2020

In Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons , I propose a model for the stages of making. I believe that the heart of making is creating new and unique things. I also realize that in order for this type of making to occur, there needs to be some scaffolding so that maker learners can develop a foundation of knowledge and skills.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 19, 2020

Museum educator shares information to an audience about their four programs. " How would you get troops on a beach when there's a big coral reef in the way?" "If you were Eisenhower or Churchill and had the information they had what decisions would you make?" These are the type of questions students are confronted with when they take a digital field trip to the The National WWII Museum.

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Magic EdTech

JANUARY 21, 2020

The online sphere has become an indispensable resource for almost every aspect of life, from recreation to education and employment to healthcare and even business. More importantly, it is this online sphere that can help transcend barriers to audio, visual and print media, ensuring accessibility for all. In fact, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that access to information and communications technologies is a basic human right.

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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 24, 2020

Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. At first, I thought it had to do with finding something exciting about the dreariness of post-Christmas January but when I counted school days from Labor Day to the hundred-day mark (skipping weekends, two weeks at Christmas and a week at Thanksgiving), that put me in the second week of February.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 23, 2020

Vocab Victor is a free innovative mobile (iOS/Android) app for building vocabulary words/skills that is ideal for ESL/ELL. Vocab Victor uses "game based learning" to help students develop their vocabulary through 4 different styles of games through 11 levels. These games offer high replay as well as different varieties of game play, such as: matching, sorting, targeting, and more.

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PHYSICS! BLOG!

JANUARY 23, 2020

In November, I tried this lesson (below) in my 10th grade physics classes. I’ve joined an “anti-bias task force” at my school made up of teachers from all divisions (lower, middle, and high school) who are looking at their curriculum and implementing lessons or other changes to work on removing bias and improving what and how we teach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2020

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: Check History in Your Browser. Category: Internet.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 21, 2020

Math Attax is a super-fun free mobile (iOS/Google Play) Math game that helps students w/ their basic Math skills (i.e. addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.). This is a 2 player game where students move their player up/down a grid while trying to shoot the correct answer to a equation. Also, they can freeze the other player and reset their score.

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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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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 21, 2020

Storillo is an innovative new tool for group writing projects. Storillo makes it easy for educators to create projects and then organize groups for students to work on together. Best of all, Storillo makes it easy for educators to see who has done what and help strengthen cooperation/collaboration skills. I highly recommend checking out Storillo by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 20, 2020

Workbench is a excellent place for educational resources, lessons plans, and much much more. Also, this is great place to find STEM resources and help introduce coding/programming into the classroom. Best of all, Workbench integrates w/ Google Classroom allowing teachers to track and monitor students and makes it easy to create student portfolios. I highly recommend checking out Workbench by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 20, 2020

Socrates is an innovate new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction for each student through a unique game based learning system. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 20, 2020

Story Wheel is an excellent educational app for students wanting to develop their Language Arts skills. This is done through a super-fun iOS game where 1-4 students spin-a-wheel and develop a story by recording audio to the picture the wheel lands on. This is a great way to develop story composition, ignite creativity, strengthen oral language skills, and more.

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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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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 22, 2020

MemoStack is an excellent new site for creating flashcards. Like similar sites, MemoStack uses "spaced repetition" to help students learn by giving them difficult more frequently. Best of all, MemoStack generates detailed reports and integrates w/ a built-in dictionary to make learning easier. I highly recommend checking out MemoStack by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 21, 2020

Story Composer is an innovative multiplayer iOS game that helps students develop their story composition skills. This is done through the use over 240 animated images where students pick and choose which pictures to structure their story from the beginning, middle, and end. Finally, a finished story can be shared online or emailed to family and friends.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 23, 2020

"A graphic organizer , also known as knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram , is a communication tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas, and the relationships between them. [1] The main purpose of a graphic organizer is to provide a visual aid to facilitate learning and instruction. [1] [link] " Graphic Organizers are used daily in education for any curriculum to help teach any subject (i.e. mind

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