Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math. by Dennis Pierce. Like many U.S. school systems, the Magnolia Independent School District in Texas serves a diverse student population.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Recently I wrote a blog post about Intentional Creativity. Here is the graphic created for that post. Below the graphic are specific ideas I am using with my gifted elementary students this school year. What follows are the activities I am using this school year to be intentional with sparking creativity in my gifted education classrooms. The titles are links for these activities.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Ever wonder what it takes to successfully prepare for back to school in a building where there is a 1:1 iPad implementation? Llianna Villegas opened the doors to PS 96 in Manhattan to show exactly how this works at her school. The school is a part of the Verizon Innovative Learning program which works in partnership with Digital Promise to provide all middle school students with iPads that can connect to internet at school via the internet and away from school via a data plan.

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Informed K12

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Today we're proud to announce that Chalk Schools has changed its name and begun operations as Informed K12.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Labor Day is annually held on the first Monday of September (this year, September 2nd). It was originally organized to celebrate various labor associations’ strengths of and contributions to the United States economy. It is largely a day of rest in modern times. Many people mark Labor Day as the end of the summer season and a last chance to make trips or hold outdoor events.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

What are your back to school ideas for students and professional learning? Join us tonight to discuss with other teachers the best back to school tips, tricks, and strategies that you can put into practice this school year. #NYCSchoolTech teacher Eileen Lennon (@eileen_lennon) moderates with me throwing in my two cents. You can prepare for the conversation by thinking about answers to these questions: Q1 #NYCSchoolsTechChat - We’ve been #BackToSchoolNYC for 2 days.

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STEMx

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Does attending an inclusive STEM-focused high school have long-term effects on students? A study conducted by SRI Education and George Washington University aims to find out. The. iSTEM research project. , with. funding from the National Science Foundation. , is touted as “the first large-scale controlled longitudinal study of the impacts of inclusive STEM high schools in the United States.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

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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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Buncee Boards is the latest feature that lets users share, view, collaborate, and "review" in a new and innovative fun way. Buncee Boards makes it super easy for students/educators to rate/review buncees by adding a comment or a fun buncee emoticon. Also, users can share a buncee via unique URL, edit the title, and even set permissions on who can view can view/edit/post/copy a already existing buncee.

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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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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Solvemoji is a fun site for students who like Math-style brainteasers and puzzles. These emoji puzzles come in 5 different difficult levels and the goal is to get as many puzzles correct to get the highest score. The way Solvemoji works is to guess the number value of the emojis in each row and correctly work out the bottom row sum. I highly recommend checking out Solvemoji by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Storyboard That is a excellent learning tool that educators are using in a wide variety of ways in their classrooms. STB is being used as a graphic organizer, for creating storyboards, digital storytelling, project based learning, and much much more. Also, STB has lots of educational resources for teachers and templates to make it easy to integrate STB into the classroom.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Easyblog is a simple way for students to blog and create digital portfolios to share w/ parents. Best of all is the teacher portal that allows educators to create a class blog and add students. Educators can then send a secure subscription link to parents. These blogs can include, text, videos, photos, and more and is a great way to keep parents informed.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

EDpuzzle the amazing simple to use site that educators everywhere are using to "flip" a classroom and differentiate instruction has recently release their "online" curriculum for teachers. Educators can now access all video-lessons and questions for the whole school year and search for them by subject or grade level. This is a great way to easily gage student learning in a wide range of subjects and save educators a bunch of time.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Curriculum Companion Wikis (K-5 only) follow a tech professional as s/he teaches each lesson in the SL K-5 curriculum textbooks. Presented via video (10-15 minutes each), you can ask questions, start a discussion with other teachers using the curriculum, and access additional resources. It’s your mentor, your sidekick, your best friend in the tech ed field.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

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: #126–7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech.

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