Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

Each year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of paper. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , paper typically found in a school or office environments such as copier paper, computer printouts, and notepads, comprise the largest category. Mitigating the use of paper has long been a goal for schools. Every year, a prodigious number of lesson plans center around dwindling rainforests, the shrinking world forests, and the ever-growing waste associated with paper.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 26, 2018

Looking for a time efficient and effective way for classes to reflect upon what they've learned that works for introverts and extroverts alike. Then you might want to try this fun reflection sign technique. At the conclusion of a workshop, class, or unit, ask participants to speak in pairs or small groups about what they learned that they are excited to put into practice.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

The National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools was established in 1988, “before STEM was STEM,” its leader says. Since that time, the group has been providing a forum for STEM high schools to share best practices and other information. We contacted Todd Mann, the organization’s executive director, for more insight on his group and its upcoming professional conference: Q: Tell us about the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools (NCSSS) and how you serve your members.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 31, 2018

EDpuzzle the world's leading tool for "flipping" a classroom or lesson has been hard at work w/ new features and updates to make it easier and even better for teacher to integrate in their classroom. Main improvements: Main My Classes section: Cleaner and simpler design. Notifications which alerts teachers teachers to which assignments/videos requires a teachers attention.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2018

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in September: What to Consider When Assigning Homework. More for Back to School. Tech Ed Resources for your Classroom. Differentiate with Personalized Learning. New Ways to Gamify Learning. Print vs. Digital–the lowdown. Positive Reinforcement in Class. Teaching Critical Thinking.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 31, 2018

YO Teach is a fantastic new site for creating a backchannel chat that I just found out about from the amazing Richard Byrne. YO Teach is a very user-friendly tool to use to create a backchannel chat by simply creating a room and then setting a password. Students can then join via a URL, and the admin feature allows educators to set privacy settings and moderate users.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 29, 2018

ProjectorScreen.com is an excellent site for people or educators to find projectors and other type of equipment for their classrooms. Not only can a person search through an immense amount of screens, but from other categories such as fixed or manual, multimedia carts, boards, chairs, and more. I highly recommend checking out ProjectorScreen by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 29, 2018

"i Know it just keeps getting bigger and better! Currently, there are more than 22,000 interactive math questions live on the site! Sign up for a free account, and you'll see why iKnowit.com is the next best thing for your classroom!" I Know it is running an online contest where any person over 18 yrs of age can win a collection of 6 Math Board Games.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 28, 2018

Sentence Builder is an excellent iOS app designed to help students ages 4-7 learn about: grammar, sentence structure, pronunciation, and more. This is done by dragging and dropping words around to build sentences. Also, a user can upload their own pics and include them in a sentence and even record their own voices. Sentence Builder is ideal for self paced learning and has two different levels to choose from.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 27, 2018

ThinkFluency is an oral reading fluency assessment app developed by a teacher for teachers. ThinkFluency replaces the tedious paper, pencil and timer assessment with an app that enables teachers to quickly assess students’ Oral Reading Fluency Rate. ThinkFluency is easy to use, provides instant results with data that is easy to download and share, and is perfect for RTI and showing student growth.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 27, 2018

Worddio is a free mobile (iOS/Android) app for for learning a new language. Worddio has over 30 libraries of languages w/ over 8000 words spoken by native speakers to help students learn. What makes Worddio ideal for learning a language is all a user has to download the app, select the language (download that library) and listen. That's it. It can be used anywhere at anytime.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2018

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take 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

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 30, 2018

Teaching used to be based on textbooks used by millions nation- or worldwide. They took an entire school year to finish leaving little time for curiosity or creativity. Some subjects still do fine with that approach because their pedagogy varies little year-to-year. In my classes, though, that’s changing. I no longer limit myself to the contents of a textbook written years, sometimes a decade, ago.

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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!

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