Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Here are ten of the top digital citizenship resources according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: 19 Topics to Teach in Digital Citizenship–and How. Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft. How to Teach 3rd Graders About Digital Citizenship. How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community. Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts. What a Teacher Can Do About Cyberbullying. 120+ Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Background Information. I recently learned, for the first time, about Aristotle’s belief that there were three basic activities of humans: theoria (thinking), poiesis (making), and praxis (doing). Corresponding to these activities were three types of knowledge: theoretical, the end goal being truth; poietical, the end goal being production; and practical, the end goal being action ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ).

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php Select: Company, Organization, Institution Category: Education Email: Use the NYC DOE email (or other professional email) that you have set up for your school, institution, or program. Share website (optional) Upload photo that represents this page Complete about section In the admin panel invite at least one other person as an administrator using their professional email.

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STEMx

OCTOBER 23, 2016

by Michael Feder, Director of STEMx. STEMx will be featured at the 2017 National Science Teachers Association STEM Forum and Expo. NSTA’s STEM Forum brought together over 2,000 educators last year, including a few STEMx members. Today, I’m proud to announce that there will be a STEMx track at the 6th Annual STEM Forum. Check out the details below for information about attending and presenting.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

If you haven’t met Nepris before, here’s the abbreviated introduction: Nepris is an amazing source of experts available to meet virtually with your class. It’s like Skype but easier, less work, and more comprehensive. Check out my review here for more details. If you’re looking for professional experts to appear in your classroom, here’s what’s coming up: -->.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Each year The Center for Digital Education recognizes the top 30 technology trailblazers and trendsetters. Here are three trailblazing technology trends shared at #CDELive by a #CDETop30 teacher, school leader, and district leader. Teacher - Tonya Tivis: Education Goes on the Road with a Food Truck! Background: Tonya Tivis is a forward thinking high school culinary arts instructor always looking to prepare her students for real-world success.

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STEMx

OCTOBER 25, 2016

by Mike Feder, Director of STEMx. In 1892, an influential group of educators released a document that outlined the eleven core subjects U.S. schools should teach. 1. They aimed to create an academic core that would prepare students for college. Since then, we’ve dropped Latin and Greek. Other than that…the list hasn’t seriously changed. Until now. Mike Feder, Director of STEMx.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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 so many daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #94–8 Tips for Chromebooks in Class.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I Know It is the excellent new (beta) site from Super Teacher Worksheets 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 a user to use a certain number of "hints" to help solve a problem and it gives the correct response w/ reason for the wrong answers.

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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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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Innovative educators love staying connected to the latest information, news, trends, and updates at great conferences that take place across the year. The frustrating part is that you can't go to every conference and even if you do, you can't attend every session you hope to. At least that's how things used to be. Today, innovative conference organizers can help address this issue by harnessing the power of technology to change that.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Periscope is a simple, and easy-to-use livestreaming platform where your audience can interact with reactions and comments, and you can respond back via text or voice. When you complete your broadcast, or if there is a broadcast from someone else that you want to share, here is how to do that. 1) Click on the bottom left of your screen on the circle with an underscored arrow. 2) A "Share Broadcast" menu appears allowing you to share via Twitter, Facebook, or by sharing a link.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Radly the Readbot is the wonderful new online game from RoomRecess. This game is designed for grades 3rd-6th and focuses on different Reading skills such as: vocabulary, cause & effect, making inferences, and more. Radly, is a fun platform style game where a student controls the robot and shoots the correct barrel/answer while trying to avoid enemies.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Owl Eyes is an innovative site that lets teachers create "classrooms" where their students can read and interact w/ texts. Student's are able to select through a wide variety of literature and then annotate the text. This is helpful as they can take notes and pickup right where they left off when reading. Best of all, the teacher tools allows educators to create quizzes to assess how students are doing and they can even track/manage their student accounts.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Musicshake EDU is a site I've blogged about in the past but wanted to revisit due to it's ease of use for education. This is a site designed to bring music to every student in a school via web browser for a very low price. These audio files/music are created by students in the browser and turned into WAV or MP3's and are very easy to create. Below is a demo video.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Buncee is a fantastic and simple tool to use for education. Educators are using it for project based learning, digital storytelling, announcements, digital cards, and much much more. A great way to use it is for holiday projects such as Halloween. Buncee, has lots of free resources for educators (lesson plans), as well as state of the art clip-art, animations, backgrounds, etc.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Flying Superstars is the educational Math game from Skidos. This is a fun yet challenging mobile (iOS/Android) app for grades 1st-5th practicing basic Math skills (i.e. subtraction, word problems, fractions, etc.). Flying Superstars is easy to play but hard to master as a student tries to guide his player through levels while collecting gems and avoiding lava.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Multi-award-winning Minecraft is a game of survival. You don’t ‘level up’; you build, explore, and survive whatever comes at you by placing blocks and going on adventures, either alone or with classmates. As you do, you explore, gather resources, craft, and fight for your survival. At the core of every action is problem-solving: Minecraft encourages kids to tinker. “You’re not complaining to get the corporate overlord to fix it — you just have to fix it yourse

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The popularity of standards-based grading and instruction is growing. Why? It’s because the one-size-fits-all concept of a single grade representing the fullness of the students’ work is flawed. Today, teachers want to call out student strengths and weaknesses, accomplishments and areas of improvement, as aligned with the standards that their school mission is built on.

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