Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 28, 2017
Teacher Appreciation Week is May 1st-5th. In honor of these tenacious, creative individuals, here are some of our favorite humorous teacher appreciation articles: 10 Bits of Wisdom I Learned From a Computer. How to Talk to a Tech Teacher. 18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am. A Website That Cleans Your Computer for You. Definition of ‘Teacher’. How to be a Tech Teacher.
The Innovative Educator
APRIL 25, 2017
Innovative educator Kim Cofino discusses the topic of digital confrontation via Facebook Live where she shares ideas about how to engage meaningfully and respectfully when encountering uncomfortable online interactions. Once we figure out (or don’t) how to react, she encourages us to share those experiences with young people. She reminds us students are having these experiences everyday.
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STEMx
APRIL 27, 2017
Q: How’s the policy calendar looking today compared to what you were seeing. in March. ? Thomas Phillips, congressional affairs specialist at Battelle, updates us on what’s going on at Capitol Hill. A: We are still seeing delays in the release of substantive legislation, particularly around the Perkins Reauthorization, because right now the priority is coming to an agreement on the FY17 budget ahead of this week’s spending expiration.
CTE Learning
APRIL 24, 2017
Creating the iWD Web Design course was a huge undertaking. As we do with all our course development, we first go to industry to learn what we need to teach. In the case of the iWD course, we looked to our friends at WebProfessionals.org and then to a broad community of designers, coders, and media developers. What makes this fun for us is working with so many different professionals.
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
APRIL 25, 2017
When I started teaching, homework always involved paper–a worksheet, a poster, a written essay, or something else like that. The problems associated with that approach were endless, including that students couldn’t find the assignment, lost their notes, wrote the assignment down wrong, left their notebook where they weren’t so couldn’t do it, the dog ate it.
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STEMx
APRIL 25, 2017
May 10, 2017: 4-5 pm EST . Register. To increase the interest and confidence of girls and young women in STEM careers, Million Women Mentors has recruited male and female professional to complete a detailed mentorship program with mentees. The movement aims to change the face of career choices and advancement for women and girls. More than 30 states host pledges and committees for the program.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 27, 2017
YouTube Mixer is a new (beta) site for mixing and mashing up audio soundtracks. This is a dream come true for people looking to become their own DJ and experiment w/ different soundtracks from YouTube. YouTube Mixer also supports audio from SoundCloud and Jamendo and easily lets users edit their soundtracks to their heart's desire. I highly recommend checking out YouTube Mixer by clicking here !!!
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 27, 2017
Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, Karen Dikson, has put together a collection of online gamified sites that will help your students with their writing: You think the textbooks for today’s generations of students are way more interesting than the once you had? Ask your students. They still think the lessons are boring. If you don’t do anything to make the studying material more appealing, you can’t expect great engagement and results in your classroom.
The Innovative Educator
APRIL 22, 2017
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! What’s hot this week? 1. Teen brains - it's not what you think 2. Fake News 3. Formative Assessment At the top of the hot list is a post about the teen brain and some myths that should be reconsidered when engaging with them.
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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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 26, 2017
In response to extensive interest from readers, Ask a Tech Teacher will be offering four Summer Learning Certificate classes with 18-24 CEUs: June 19th through August 6th. 3-4 weeks, lots of resources and hands-on help. Click to view slideshow. To help you make your decision, I want to share the most common questions I’ve gotten regarding sign ups: Q: What is the cost to register?
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 24, 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: #82–How do I use a read-only doc?
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 27, 2017
Buncee is the amazing Web 2.0 learning tool that educators everywhere are using in a wide variety of ways. This is a simple to use site/app w/ educational portal that allows educators to "flip" their classroom, differentiate instruction, blend learning, and much much more. in a safe environment where they can manage/track student accounts and presentations.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 27, 2017
Gamefroot is an excellent site for educators looking to teach or learn how to code. Gamefroot offers easy-to-follow tutorials and even professional development to help teachers integrate Gamefroot and STEM into their classroom. Similar to Scratch, students will be able to create their own online games (or iPhone), publish them, and even play games created by others.
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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
APRIL 27, 2017
EDpuzzle is vastly becoming one of the premiere web/iOS tools around for learning in the classroom. This is fantastic free tool for editing a video, cropping, adding quizzes/polls, narration, etc. then embedding into site/blog. It is being used to flip a classroom or lesson, Project Based Learning, grading/assessing, and even for differentiating instruction.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 27, 2017
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
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 27, 2017
Monster Math Duels is a new/free educational iOS app for Math. This fun app has students competing in class or at home on an iPad (split screen) or across multiple devices in different areas of Math (i.e. addition, subtraction, etc) grades K-5 (against each other or the computer). Monster Math is aligned to Common Core standards, tracks student progress, and is a great way to integrate Game Based Learning into the classroom.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 27, 2017
DimensionU is one of my favorite companies for Game Based Learning. These games take place in an interactive 3D virtual world where students strengthen their Math/Literacy skills. The games are designed for kids grades 3rd-9th and are aligned to Common Core Standards. Here are a list of DimensionU games. Watch the videos below to see all 4 AMAZING DimensionU Games in action: Meltdown is the DimensionU game that offers students a second chance when answering difficult questions, and rewards creat
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 27, 2017
Quiznetic is a new site for creating quizzes/games that students can all play at the same time. All a teacher has to do is create questions and select their track to have students answer questions and try to win this Game Based Learning racing game. Best of all, students can join using any device (via a unique code), questions can contain videos/pictures, and track student data.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 28, 2017
Cite It In is a great site for students looking to reference material and make bibliographies. This is an easy to use that has a generator to cite materials such as: websites, books, videos, etc. Also, it works w/ APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. I highly recommend checking out Cite It In by clicking here !!!
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 28, 2017
Storyboard That the excellent learning tool that educators are using in a number of ways such as: project based learning, timelines, storyboards, and more has recently made it easier to copy assignments. Educators can now login and copy assignments by the click of a button. Once the assignment is copied to their teacher dashboard it creates a blank template of that assignments for students to fill in.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 28, 2017
Loopy is an innovative new tool for creating interactive simulations. Simulations are easy to create and done by drawing circles and arrows. Educators can use Loopy to embed into a blog, create an explainer video, project based learning, differentiate instruction and much much more. Finally, users can create their simulations from scratch and build on an existing one as a template.
Technology Tidbits
APRIL 28, 2017
Sketch Nation the simple to use mobile (iOS/Android) app/site for creating games recently updated their lesson plan ideas page. This is a great place for educators to go to find ways on how to integrate Sketch Nation into their classroom. These lesson ideas focus on a wide variety of subjects such as: Coding, History, Math, and more. Sketch Nation makes it a seamless way to introduce STEM into their classroom in a fun and engaging way.
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