Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 7, 2019
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Any adult knows that 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.
User Generated Education
OCTOBER 5, 2019
I am beyond elated – our PreK-6 elementary school received monies, through our district’s Computer Science Resolution 2025, to create a STEAM (science, technology, arts, math) makerspace. I never thought our Title 1 school would get the opportunity to create such a space. I never thought I would get the opportunity to help create a fully equipped makerspace.
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Magic EdTech
OCTOBER 6, 2019
“If you deprive yourself of offshore development and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.”. These are the famous words spoken by the late Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore in the 1990s. Back then, offshore hiring was an absurd concept. Today, however, it is a significant strategy adopted by businesses to drive down operating costs while gaining access to quality talent from around the world.
The Innovative Educator
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Part of making content accessible includes ensuring that the contrast ratio is set to be fully accessible to anyone. Inaccessible color contrast is the top issue for digital content, but fixing it, or having it right from the start, is easy. In this article you'll learn why this is important, what the standard is for color contrast, and how to make content with accessible color contrast.
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
OCTOBER 9, 2019
October 14-18, 2019 is Digital Citizenship Week. Here are resources from Ask a Tech Teacher and Structured Learning that will help you learn how to teach digital citizenship to your students. Below, you’ll find everything from a full year-long curriculum to professional development for teachers: Resources: Digital Citizenship: What to Teach When (a video).
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Bright and Smart
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Our Posterity = Our Children Posterity comes from Middle English posterite, from Anglo-French pusterite, from Latin posterus ("coming after"). Last week, we spoke about , World Space Week and the Apollo missions. Now let's take a look into the future of Moon exploration! NASA's next lunar exploration assignment is called Artemis. Just as the Apollo missions were responsible for putting the first men on the Moon , the Artemis program seeks to send a man back and send a woman for the first time!
STEMx
OCTOBER 8, 2019
In 2016, Battelle began . operating. the . National Ecological Observatory Network. (NEON) under an agreement with the National Science Foundation. NEON provides open, standardized ecological data from across the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Now, to challenge educators to use NEON data in their K-12 STEM programming, Battelle has announced the .
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. October: Discounts on Select Print Books. Any of these books: $25.99 (same price as digital). Kindergarten Technology Curriculum. 1st Grade Technology Curriculum. 3rd Grade Technology Curriculum. High School Technology Curriculum–Book 1. All of these book are ordered and delivered through Amazon.
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Storyboard That the wonderful resource that educators everywhere are using for a variety of educational purposes (i.e. timelines, digital storytelling, project based learning, etc), has just release their latest bundle for Halloween. These activities cover a wide range of topics from story starters, holiday cards, monsters, safety tips, and more. Storyboard That is an excellent learning tool w/ educational portal, where teachers can manage, track, differentiate instruction, and assess student ac
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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
OCTOBER 9, 2019
It's the time of year again for my favorite annual sites and apps. This years list seems to have a wide variety of educational tools w/ no set pattern seen in years past. As w/ any of my previous annual top lists, all tools listed in previous end of year posts will not be eligible for this years'. Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2019 Wakelet - Wakelet lets educators easily bookmark any item on the web (i.e. article, blog, tweet, etc.) and then curate them in stunning visual ways to curate w/ others.
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 7, 2019
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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