Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2020

Every month, we’ll share five themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired. This month: Keyboarding. –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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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 24, 2020

Story Spheres is an innovative new (beta) site for digital storytelling that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's blog. The way this works is simple, upload a 360 degree image, and then add audio track/file or sounds. Once a story is done it can then be shared via a link or embedded into a site. Finally, Story Spheres can set to play audio once the image is viewed or when an image is clicked on to change the perspective in 360 degrees.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Today I have a special guest Amy Mezni from Teaching Ideas 4U. And we are going to talk all about the magic of hands-on integrated units. Hope you stick around. Amy shares information on integrated units. You may be thinking, is that a thematic unit, is it an intradisciplinary unit or is there a difference ? Amy's going to explain the differences to us, so that is really helpful.

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PCS Edventures

JUNE 24, 2020

There are plenty of studies out there that show just how important family engagement is to a students’ success in school, especially in the earlier grades. The real question is how to build up a relationship of mutual trust between the educator and families. Each student may have different access to technology, practice different traditions, or even speak different languages at home.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

MTI 557: Building Digital Citizens. vv. starts Monday, June 29, 2020 . Click to sign up. xx. If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. cyberbullying. digital commerce. digital communications. digital footprint, digital privacy. digital ri

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Magic EdTech

JUNE 23, 2020

If you have taken any kind of exam, you know what a proctor is. They are the anonymous individuals who pass out exams. Then, they pace up and down the room and sometimes stand over your shoulder watching your every move while you take the test. This is also the person who announces that time is up and collects your exam regardless of whether or not you’ve completed it.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 23, 2020

*Circly's collaboration features make it an ideal tool for "remote learning" while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 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: Quick Browser Fixes. Category: Internet.

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CTE Learning

JUNE 23, 2020

With COVID-19 affecting how we work and live, many people are seeking new career paths that will allow them to work with more flexibility and freedom. Let’s look at how to switch careers by studying how one student took advantage of an online training course that allowed her to learn at her own pace and equip herself with the technical skills to thrive in this rapidly changing economy.

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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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Magic EdTech

JUNE 23, 2020

‘’From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet… technology progresses.’’ . This quote summarizes the journey of learning from the static environment of a classroom of four walls, around fixed tables and chairs to a digital classroom with smart boards, epubs, educational videos, and online assessments.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 26, 2020

DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Events, etc.) where educators can then select lesson plans, create assignments, and help students increase their Reading and Vocabulary skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2020

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 all stakehol

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CTE Learning

JUNE 23, 2020

With COVID-19 affecting how we work and live, many people are seeking new career paths that will allow them to work with more flexibility and freedom. Let’s look at how to switch careers by studying how one student took advantage of an online training course that allowed her to learn at her own pace and equip herself with the technical skills to thrive in this rapidly changing economy.

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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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