Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 16, 2019

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 this summer 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

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 11, 2019

Amanda Guest works with teenage art enthusiasts who are a part of ArtsConnection. T he organization provides students with engaging and authentic art experiences such as exhibiting their work in fancy New York City offices. I had the opportunity to meet Amanda's students as they were planning an exhibit to be displayed where I work. We discussed some ideas for displaying art in a way that is accessible.

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

AUGUST 15, 2019

Back-to-School Procedures, Procedures, Procedures Procedures and routines are such a vital part of a well-run classroom. Without them, everything falls apart. For real! Every time I have ever disliked a time in my school day it has all come down to what procedure I had in place during that time. Systems really are that crucial. Classroom routines train students to carry out procedures with a minimum of wasted time.

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Magic EdTech

AUGUST 16, 2019

Print Books are passé and today it has become essential to increase the reachability of the content by making it downloadable for the readers. The way new digital content is produced and consumed is going through significant changes. EBooks technically means digitally available books but through EPUB3 conversion, it can be changed into ‘enhanced eBooks’ also known as Interactive Digital Books.

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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.

Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2019

I teach a lot of online classes and as such, have used many different platforms. It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. He’s boiled it down to three suggestions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2019

I first ran into Behaviorism in child psychology classes I took for my Early Childhood Education credential (ECE). It was developed by a renowned psychologist named John B. Watson and formed into the Theory of Behaviorism by another famous psychologist, B.F. Skinner. The technical definition they provide is: “…scientific and objective methods of investigation concerned with observable stimulus-response behaviors; all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment.R

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