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How to Teach Mouse Skills to Pre-Keyboarders

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Many students enter kindergarten with a basic knowledge of digital devices like iPads and smartphones, but this rarely includes the use of a mouse. This little piece of hardware is strictly for desktop devices and maybe add-ons for laptops. In today’s tech world, you may even consider it a niche item. But you’d be wrong. Rarely is there a child that can get through school without using a mouse.

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8 Must Read Personal Development Books for Teachers

Educators Technology

October 30, 2016 In today's collection of Books for Teachers, we are sharing with you this meticulously curated selection of some of the best books in the area of self development. These are classic.read more.

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Halloween Wars: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with a STEM, STEAM, Maker Education Focus

User Generated Education

For Halloween 2016, I did a version of Halloween Wars (a Food Network show) with my two classes of gifted elementary learners. I am sharing this lesson through my blog post as it reinforces how I approach lesson planning and teaching. Background Information. Principles that drive my instructional approach. regardless of theme, include: Instructional challenges are hands-on and naturally engaging for learners.

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The 3 Most Popular 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! Taking the top spot for the first time is a new post titled Who Do You Tweet to When @Twitter @Support Is Your Problem? This post shares a problem I’ve had with Twitter for a few weeks and it seems other users of Twitter have encountered similar issues.

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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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A Holiday Flier and Greeting Card in Publisher

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Two holiday projects for grades 2-8–for Thanksgiving or Christmas–in the desktop publishing tool of your choice: A flier to celebrate a holiday event. A greeting card to spread wishes for a happy holiday season. Greeting cards are easy enough for second graders–even early readers. Using MS Publisher, pick a template, add a picture to personalize, add their name–and they’re done.

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SpellingCity

Technology Tidbits

SpellingCity w/out a doubt is my favorite site for Spelling and Vocabulary. This is a great site w/ educational portal that allows educators to create word lists that can be incorporated into educational games. These games are not only fun but highly engaging and help students learn their "words". Also, an educator can track students, find an abundance of resources/videos, and even use it for mobile learning w/ a free mobile app (iOS/Android).

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Strengthen School Culture & Community: #NYCSchoolsTechChat - 11/3

The Innovative Educator

Learn innovative ideas for building and strengthening school culture and community during our seventh monthly #NYCSchoolsTechChat taking place tomorrow, Thursday, November 3rd at 3:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. During this chat we will have special guest. Jordan Pedraza (@JordanPedraza) at ( @RemindHQ ). You can read more about Jordan in her LinkedIn profile.

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169 Tech Tips–Two Great Chromebook Shortkeys

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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: #121–Chromebook Caps Lock and #122–Chromebook Delete Key.

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The Power of Symbols–What does the word ‘Turkey’ mean?

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Last year, I did a poll on the meaning of the word ‘turkey’ This was to demonstrate how powerful symbols are to your students and do so with an authentic use of technology to support discussion on math, language standards, and the holidays. As a summation to your discussion with students on symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, farms, or another topic, post this on your Smartscreen.

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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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Subscriber Special: November

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Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November 1st-15th: when you spend $25 or more on Structured Learning , get a free copy of the. Hour of Code bundle. Click to view slideshow. When you spend $50 or more on Structured Learning , get a free copy of the. Hour of Code Bundle and the STEM Bundle.

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Essential Guide to Modern Learning: 10 #EdTech Considerations

The Innovative Educator

Author and professor Liz Kolb and I had a lively conversation where we discussed ten considerations to guide the use of tech in modern classrooms. Take a look and think about how you would answer these questions. The 10 considerations: Understanding The Role of Tech in Education Getting Off to A Good Start w/ #EdTech Avoiding Ineffective #EdTech Choosing the Right #EdTech Resources Selecting High-Quality Digital Learning Resources Creating a Comprehensive Approach to #EdTech Integration Assessin

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Amazon Rapids

Technology Tidbits

Amazon Rapids is the new free mobile (iOS/Android) app for Reading kids 7-12 yrs old. This exciting app engages students in a innovative way as it tells hundreds illustrated stories in a new way. The way this works is Amazon Rapids tells a story via a chat-style dialogue that helps bring the story to life. For $2.99 a month parents can get unlimited access to short stories.

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30hands

Technology Tidbits

30hands Storyteller for Chromebook, Mac or PC free 30 day trial here ! 30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS apps that are ideal for digital storytelling ( 30hands Starter (free), 30hands Pro (paid)). The 30hands community is a perfect cloud based solution that allows educators to: manage/track students, hand in/out assignments, sched ule events, and more.

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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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LearningApps

Technology Tidbits

LearningApps is a nice site I just found about from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog for creating learning modules. This site reminds me of Tackk as a user can create a virtual "pinboard" and to add any multimedia content to create a lesson. Also, LearningApps is a good place to find already curated educational resources. Below is a demo video. I highly recommend checking out LearningApps by clicking here !!!

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Level it Books

Technology Tidbits

Level it Books is the popular educational app (Android/iOS) for scanning a book's ISBN and getting a Reading Lexile/Level. It's being used by educators, parents, and librarians around the world to keep a virtual library of books, manage students Reading Levels, and more. Also, a teacher can use it not only to create class rosters and book libraries, but a "book of the day" as well.