Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The start of a new school year is always busy. New students, new parents, new rules at school–but there’s one more piece that shakes up my education ecosystem: new webtools. I get so many recommendations from colleagues, trusted forums, and my Twitter feed. I recently previewed one I think you’ll like called Education Galaxy. It’s online assessment, practice, and instruction for K-6 students with a tagline: Curiously fun, amazingly effective, refreshingly affordable.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Sway is an educational app by Microsoft that is ideal for digital storytelling. Sway is very easy to use and lets students create stunning presentations, stories, and even newsletters. All a user has to do is select their their layout, upload their images, and add text, Sway takes care of the rest. A finished project can then be shared via a unique URL.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

View on the web in presentation mode here or as a pdf here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It’s difficult finding kid-safe research websites that really are. Even Google SafeSearch has issues at times. Here’s my list of safe spots to send your students for research. Before rolling any of these out, preview them all to be sure they fit your unique student group: BrainPop –with the BrainPop characters, a launchpad to curiosity.

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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 26, 2018

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 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 stakeholders, w

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The innovative writing platform Night Zookeeper just released a free online writing contest for all students. All a student has to do is create an account and use Night Zookeeper's Star Writing platform to create a 1000 word story. Star Writing will provide the writing "prompt" and students will create their own original adventure story in the "Night Zoo".

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

eNotes is a wonderful site/iOS app for students looking for homework help and much much more. Enote is a one-stop-shop for educators looking for educational resources, lesson plans, and even quizzes while students can use eNotes as the "ultimate" cliff notes for study guides on 1000's of pieces of literature. Also, students can ask questions to get answers from real educators or even browse through a vast library of already answered ones.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Personalized learning is the latest buzzword in an education environment bursting with new ideas but this one is impressive. In a sentence, personalized learning: “tailors instruction, expression of learning, and assessment to each student’s unique needs and preferences.” — ISTE. If you think it sounds like differentiated instruction, it does with this caveat: Personalized learning is student-directed, student-paced, and designed for each learner.

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