Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 25, 2018
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: #28: My Sound Doesn’t Work.
PHYSICS! BLOG!
JUNE 28, 2018
In refreshing the design of my 10th grade Physics course, one thing I have been attempting to do is find new ways to replace worksheets or problem sets with different sorts of activities, especially ones that promote more group work and discourse within groups. (See kinematics card sort , momentum card sort.). For my Balanced Forces unit, I replaced the Newton’s 1st Law problem solving with a set of lab stations.
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The Innovative Educator
JUNE 24, 2018
Have you ever noticed a post on Facebook where rather than seeing responses to the post, instead the thread is cluttered with folks indicating "following" or "f." Stop doing that. Instead, just turn on notifications. This way the content stays rich and clean and you get straight to the information you were trying to learn. Here's how. So, if you don't want to come off as the bad guy, just share this post in a group where this is an issue and help all those passionate group members get to the hea
STEMx
JUNE 28, 2018
As STEM educators and supporters of STEM schools, you work with the inventors of the future — your students. What do you tell a student who has drawn up plans for a promising innovation? What’s the next step? How did the great U.S. inventors grapple with the triumphs and failures of innovating and still persevere? Being innovative can spark many questions, and the U.S.
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
JUNE 29, 2018
Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in July: Wi. To be honest, I’m off most of the month! But I’ll be back in August.
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Technology Tidbits
JUNE 27, 2018
Summer is here and so is BoomWriter's Virtual Summer Camps!! This is an excellent solution for teachers looking to make some extra money over the summer (from the comfort of their own home) using BoomWriter's innovative collaborat ive writing tool. More info below. BoomWriter is a site that I’ve written about many times because it lets elementary, middle, and high school teachers conduct engaging nonfiction, fiction, and vocabulary development group-writing activities in almost any subject area.
PHYSICS! BLOG!
JUNE 24, 2018
In connection with the AAPT summer meeting , the AAPT HS Physics Teacher Camp will be held on Sunday July 29th at the American Center for Physics near Washington, DC. The cost is $25 for the day and includes food. You don’t need to be a current member of AAPT or attend any other part of the summer meeting (though we encourage you to look into both—especially the HS Physics Teacher Day on Monday if you’ve never been to an AAPT meeting before).
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 27, 2018
Playing for a Better World is a new educational iOS game that teaches students about the environment, recycling, values, good habits, and more. This is done through seven different mini-games (i.e. platform, etc.) as the player tries to collect stars. Once a number of stars are collected a student can unlock special items such as: outfits, environmental phrases, and stickers.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 27, 2018
Seesaw the mega popular student engagement platform that educators/students are using to build digital portfolios, activities, and more, has recently updated their learning tool to version 6.0. Updated Features include: (from their press release) ? Expanded Activity Library: Seesaw 6.0 includes our new, expanded Activity Library where teachers can find thousands of activities created by other teachers who are Seesaw Ambassadors.
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