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The Importance of 3D Printing in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

A topic I don’t cover enough is 3D printing. It’s relatively new on the education landscape and I have yet to reach a comfort level with it. Thankfully, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Lisa Michaels, has lots of knowledge and experience on this topic. Here are her thoughts on the importance of 3D printing in education: The range of possibilities which 3D printing provides is almost limitless.

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Teaching Elementary-Level Learners About the Brain

User Generated Education

Judy Willis in How to Teach Students About the Brain writes: If we want to empower students, we must show them how they can control their own cognitive and emotional health and their own learning. Teaching students how the brain operates is a huge step. Even young students can learn strategies for priming their brains to learn more efficiently. Teaching students the mechanism behind how the brain operates and teaching them approaches they can use to work that mechanism more effectively helps stu

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Who Do You Tweet to When @Twitter @Support Is Your Problem? Please RT.

The Innovative Educator

Twitter has been an essential platform for me in building my professional learning network and share ideas. It also has come in handy when seeking customer service support. Especially when I need support from large companies like airlines, utilities, cable, and more. For the past few weeks the customer service support I am seeking is support with Twitter.

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EDpuzzle - School Channel

Technology Tidbits

EDpuzzle the excellent free tool that educators everywhere are using to flip their classroom/lessons and assess student learning, just released their "School Channel". This channel allows teachers to share/ copy other video lessons from their colleagues. I highly recommend checking out EDpuzzle by clicking here !!! Below is a brief demo. *EDpuzzle is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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10 Ways to Use Twitter in Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

For anyone who missed the April announcement, Twitter switched its app category from ‘social media’ (where it consistently ranked in the top ten with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Pinterest) to ‘news’ (now ranked #1, ahead of apps like CNN, Fox News, and Reddit). It makes sense; tweets and twitter streams have been part of hard-core news reports for years as an effective way for leaders and politicians to reach their constituents and pollsters to gauge wha

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The 3 Hottest Posts Innovative Educators Are Reading

The Innovative Educator

If you haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator, don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! At the top spot for another week first time is 6 Skills Students Today Must Develop. It includes some terrific tools to ensure these are the 21st century skills your students develop and provides a useful framework for implementing this work and having conversations about what students need for success today.

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Animatron Updates

Technology Tidbits

Animatron the excellent free online tool for creating custom animations has just released a bunch of new updates. Teachers and students are using these updates to creating stunning digital stories, for project based learning, collaborative projects, and much much more. New Features Lite Mode - Lite mode is a simplified version of the Animatron video editor.

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169 Tech Tips #160–14 Assessment Strategies

Ask a Tech Teacher

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: #160–14 Assessment Strategies.

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Lab Stations: How to Make Them Work for You!

Amy Brown Science

Lab stations can be a fantastic tool in our teaching arsenal! Teaching science requires a multi-faceted approach. Students are all over the place in terms of their learning styles, their ability levels, and their attitudes toward learning. Great science teachers mix it up every day in terms of teaching strategies and approaches for getting across the concepts we need to teach.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

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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Should Teachers Pay Teachers or Share Freely? My #GoOpen Verdict at #TLTechLive

The Innovative Educator

Today I will be presenting at #TLTechLive in Princeton, NJ where among other things I will be discussing why the U.S. Department of Education wants teachers, schools, districts, and states to #GoOpen. I was interested in discussing this topic after attending #ISTE2016 when Amazon announced "Inspire" and then there was a debate about if teachers should pay teachers or share freely.

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Answerables

Technology Tidbits

Answerables the innovative educational tool that combines the best features of game based learning w/ a learning management system has just released their free iPad app. Answerables is being used by educators in a variety of ways from collaborating w/ other classes, to browsing the web, all in a secure 3D virtual environment. Answerables is used as a: • Virtual classroom • Lesson planner • Learning manager • Quest creator • Resource manager • Web browser (managed) • Social Network • Student port

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Office Hours–Questions? Let’s Talk

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you are using the SL K-5 Technology Curriculum , you’ll love this free service. Every Sunday, Ask a Tech Teacher will offer online, virtual Office Hours to answers questions about the curriculum. Any questions you have about how to unpack lessons, teach a skill, or tie into class inquiry can be asked at this weekly real-time Google Hangout: Sundays, 2pm PDT.

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iCivics

Technology Tidbits

iCivics is a fantastic site for learning about Civics through Game Based Learning. Best of all, iCivics has an educational portal that allows educators to create and manage student accounts. Also, teachers can create assignments such as games/webquests and track student performance w/ detailed reports. Finally, a educator can create a forum or message board to engage students in online discussions and send out class announcements.

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Downloadable Design Briefs for an Integrative STEM Curriculum

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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3 #DigCit Activities to Celebrate #DigCitWeek fr @CommonSenseEd

The Innovative Educator

Digital Citizenship Week is here and continues until October 22nd. Be sure to celebrate with three suggested activities for teachers, students, and families from Common Sense Education. Teachers: Take the Digital Citizenship for All Pledge. Pledged to teach kids how to manage their online reputations, deal with issues such as cyberbullying, and conduct themselves safely online.