Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 1, 2020
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Bullying is no longer relegated to the playground or the neighborhood. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld. Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
SpeakyReads is an innovative learning tool for ESL students or those looking for help w/ reading and comprehension. The way this works is that books/texts are broken up into audio-paragraphs that can be used in two different modes, Reading or Dictation. Best of all, SpeakyReads lets students set their own targets and generate detailed reports for "self paced learning".
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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
OCTOBER 1, 2020
96: Halloween and Makerspace in the Elementary Classroom Makerspace and Halloween can go hand in hand with just the right literature to set the stage. Finding books that engage students and make them think is half the battle. The creation of solutions is the fun part! This episode takes a closer look at several different books that can be used in October or for Halloween.
Ellipsis Education
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Begin with the End in Mind. This phrase probably sounds familiar to you, especially if you’ve read the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. The meaning of the adage is clear: having a vision, mission, and direction can help you achieve even the most daunting tasks. Beginning with the End in Mind can be helpful for curriculum implementation, as well.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 28, 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: . Category: Keyboarding. Q: I’m updating grades at school.
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Top 10 Sciencekits
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
The global pandemic hit the world, aka covid-19, have brought with it many restrictions and limitations all around the world. Schools and kindergartens being shut down, playgrounds are less available and even in some areas going out of home is fully prohibited. This situation, as we all have learned, brings in a complex challenge for us parents, to keep our kids occupied, keep their spirits high, and invest in their education to compensate on the lost time at school or kindergarten.
ED Week
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
COVID-19 and climate change prove why science standards can't ignore real-world concerns, write Andrew Zucker and Pendred Noyce.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Here are the most-read posts for the month of September: 19 Websites and 5 Posters to Teach Mouse Skills. Teacher-Authors–Writing and Labor Day Go Well Together. 5 reasons why outdoor learning is vital for young children. Favorite Shortkeys for Special Needs. 5 (free) Shortkey Posters to Mainstream Tech Ed. 20 Great Websites to Inspire 2nd Graders. 19 Great Websites to Inspire 5th Graders.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Chronicle Cloud is an innovative educational all-in-one iOS app for teachers. Educators can use Chronicle Cloud in a number of different ways such as: assessing (using their "traffic light" system), note-taking, providing feedback, and much much more. Also, being on the "cloud" teachers can collaborate and share best "teaching" practices in an easy way.
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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.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Monsters vs Fractions is an excellent site for learning fractions through game based learning. This is a super-fun online or iOS environment where students select through a number of games (i.e. Portal Machine, Catapult, Fractonium Mine). These games focus on a wide variety of skills such as, sorting fractions on a number line, determining which fractions are greater, and more.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Mobile Permissions is a fantastic new free tool for educators to virtual send parents permissions slips. Mobile Permissions makes it easy for teachers to send any type of permission slip form to a parents/guardians phone or mobile device. They can then electronically sign and submit payment while educators can track/monitor to it all from their teacher portal.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Otus is an ideal tool for Remote Learning w/ schools being closed. Their learning platform makes it easy for educators to build dynamic engaging lessons, deliver instruction, and then assess student learning. Otus is a all-in-one mobile learning solution for schools that combines the best features of a: learning management system, data management system, and more.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Wooclap is an excellent learning tool that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog that is ideal for Distance Learning. Wooclap is a tool that reminds me a lot of Kahoot, where a teacher can create a poll/quiz and students can respond in real-time from their mobile device. Best of all, Wooclap has lots of robust features that set it apart from their competition such as: 20+ ways to interact w/ their audience, integrates w/ most LMS, Keynote, PPT, Google Slides, etc, free for education,
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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!
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
MonkeyLearn is an excellent site for creating a word cloud that reminds me a lot of Wordle. All a user has to do is copy/paste in some text and hit generate word cloud. That's it, MonkeyLearn generates the cloud and even analyzes the text for keywords and sentiment analysis. I highly recommend checking out MonkeyLearn by clicking here !! For a more detailed review check out Richard Byrne's wonderful blog.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 2, 2020
A warm welcome to Sean Clark, Instructional Aide, and his first time contributing to Ask a Tech Teacher. He’s also a Teacher-Author with a wonderful experience involving his students in November’s NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program: School-age kids these days are bridging huge linguistic and literary gaps almost every day: reading books checked out from the school library, but also online assignments, texts, and instant messages from parents and classmates.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
BoomWriter is a terrific site that I’ve written about many times because it lets elementary, middle, and high school teachers conduct non-fiction, fiction, and vocabulary development group-writing/collaborative activities in almost any subject area. BoomWriter is an innovative learning tool that educators everywhere are using for project based learning and turn students into published writers.
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