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Here’s a Preview of August

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in August: How to get started with Ask a Tech Teacher. Tech Tips. College Credit Classes. Music, Academics, and Keyboarding–Transferable Skills. More free posters. Curriculum-based Assessments–Powerful Diagnostic Tools. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Today: Preparing to Switch Between On-Site & Online Teaching

The Innovative Educator

Join me today, Monday, July 27th at 4:00 pm to hear educators discuss how to switch between on-site and online teaching. We will listen to a panel together, then myself and co-moderator Laura Ogando with lead participants in a discussion about what we've heard and how it applies in our own context.

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Erase all Kittens

Technology Tidbits

Erase all Kittens is an interesting online game that I just found out about from Free Technology for Schools. This game has a rather cool concept as it has kids hacking into levels to help them complete the game and rescue all the kittens by editing html code. It's very easy to get started and has students learning basic concepts of coding/programming.

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Comment on What’s So New or Different about STEM? by Brian Clair

Stem-by-Design

The craze for STEM Learning has now significantly increased in young students. The universities are coming up with various STEM Learning Programs in collaboration with other institutions & researchers. The STEM Learning Ecosystems have a vast potential to teach the young students in masses. Every year students are applying for these programs in a big number because of the real-time practice and to represent their talents.

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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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Back to School Tips

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s hard to imagine school is back in a few weeks. I’ve collected a series of back-to-school tips that are suited for in-person or remote learning. Pick those that work for you: Great Back to School Activities. Back to School: A Bundle of Lesson Plans at a Great Price. It’s Time to go Back to School. Lots of Ideas! How to Prepare Students for PARCC Tests. 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School. 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year. 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Ye

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87: The Power of Integrating Writing Into Science AND Science on a Budget

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

87: The Power of Integrating Writing Into Science AND Science on a Budget Integrating content areas into the ELA block allows more science to be taught to students using valuable skills such as writing. That still leaves teachers with hands-on science activities to accomplish. How can you include all the materials you need? That's where science on a budget comes in.

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TeachVid

Technology Tidbits

TeachVid is an amazing online tool for learning foreign languages that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. TeachVid reminds me a tad like EDpuzzle where educators use interactive videos to assess student's learning. Also, educators can create a "virtual" classroom and create assignments that contain: videos, worksheets, etc. Finally, TeachVid makes it easy to flip a classroom or lesson and let student's learn at their own pace.

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What You Might Have Missed in July

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of July: Tech Ed Resources: Online Classes. Tech Ed Resources: K-12 Tech Curriculum. Tech Ed Resources: Mentoring and Coaching. Celebrate the Anniversary of the Moon Landing. Common Tech Problem: Browser Doesn’t Work. Free Mouse Skills Posters. How Educators Empower Students With Tech. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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A Better Plan for School Reopening This Fall

The Innovative Educator

Districts around the country are sharing plans for the reopening of schools this fall. In many cases the plans are rather complex and impractical for working families. For example, many have schedules in which students attend school part time, which could involve being in school buildings two to three days per week or having schedules that require being in the building for just the morning or afternoon.

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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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Our Commitment to Combating Third-Degree Racism

Informed K12

The recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks at the hands of police brutality have rekindled our nation’s neverending fight against racial injustice. These murders have forced us to reexamine the ways in which we contribute to racism both directly and indirectly.

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binumi

Technology Tidbits

binumi is a wonderful site for creating beautiful looking presentations/digital videos. This is done through a easy-to-use drag-n-drop interface and educators can use for digital storytelling or project based learning. Best of all, binumi can be used for collaborative and remote-learning and a finished project can be embedded into a site or blog. I highly recommend checking out binumi by clicking here !!!

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Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans

Ask a Tech Teacher

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are from members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, from 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 stakeholders, with appropriate me

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100+ Days of COVID and its Impact on Digital Accessibility

Magic EdTech

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we interact with and use digital resources. It’s been over 100+ days, and we have witnessed unprecedented challenges and new opportunities to change the course of web accessibility. There’s always a silver lining, even in the darkest clouds. In a matter of a few weeks, the global population has turned to the Internet as the sole source for learning, ecommerce, business transactions, and social engagement.

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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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Knoword for Remote Learning

Technology Tidbits

Knoword is a super fun Vocabulary game that is perfect for integrated technology into the classroom/home. The way this works is definitions are given w/ the starting letter of the word while a timer counts down. The player tries to answer as many correct words by typing/spelling them correctly before the timer runs out. Best of all, there is a teacher portal where educators can create their own "word" packs to integrate w/ their curriculum as well as track student data.

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Cloud Stop Motion

Technology Tidbits

Cloud Stop Motion is an innovative site for creating and storing stop motion video projects. This is ideal for educators looking to integrate technology into the classroom and can be used for project based learning, digital storytelling, and more. Best of all, the educational portal allows teachers to track and manage student accounts, organize all projects, and export/watch all videos, all from w/in the web/browser.

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Circly

Technology Tidbits

*Circly's collaboration features make it an ideal tool for "remote learning" while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.

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The Cell Game

Technology Tidbits

The Cell Game is a new online game that educators can use to customize for their classroom. This is Go. Once a game starts the object is for students to answer questions of different levels and take over as many "cells" as possible before their cell core is destroyed. The Cell Game can be used for any subject and is easy enough that it can be used by most grade levels. a super fun multi-player game that reminds me of the classic game I highly recommend The Cell Game by clicking here !!!

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Vocab Victor

Technology Tidbits

Vocab Victor is a free innovative mobile (iOS/Android) app for building vocabulary words/skills that is ideal for ESL/ELL. Vocab Victor uses "game based learning" to help students develop their vocabulary through 4 different styles of games through 11 levels. These games offer high replay as well as different varieties of game play, such as: matching, sorting, targeting, and more.

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Newlearn.io

Technology Tidbits

*Newlearn.io will send out gift cards to the first two teachers who leave the comments. Do you need summer themed vocabulary worksheets? Or do you need some COVID-19 relate homework? Or do you need addition and subtraction lesson plans for the remote teaching? Request any teaching materials you need by leaving comments on the ‘Share Ideas’ below. (Only the writer can read the comments.