Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2017

Many of the existential guides for teaching (such as Habits of Mind , the Socrative Method , and Mindfulness ) promote a student-driven growth mindset as fundamental to successful learning. This means students take an active part in achieving education and personal goals. The problem is how to persuade students to voluntarily reflect on their progress, rethink goals, and make the required adjustments to achieve success?

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 8, 2017

9Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication. The human or social element is often disregarded.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

From Edsource , The Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team's new CEO, Michael Fine spoke to a reporter recently about the affects of declining enrollments and what the means for California districts and LCFF.

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Jay Flores

AUGUST 10, 2017

There’s an engineer in all of us. By applying unique immersive experiences to draw out that natural attraction to making things, we can, hopefully, solve manufacturing’s biggest obstacle: the skills gap. Read More.

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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 11, 2017

If you have challenging students in your classes, there’s a good chance someone has suggested that you look into Whole Brain Teaching (WBT). Whole Brain Teaching is an active teaching method designed to maximize student engagement in lessons, positive interactions with classmates, and educational fun. Instruction includes vocal directions mixed with hand gestures, inflections, full body movement, head motions, and chants.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 9, 2017

Night Zoopkeeper is a new free site for students to help their Writing skills through fun interactive lessons. Best of all, the educational portal allows educators to: assign lessons, track student progress, and assess their work in real-time. This makes it easy for teachers to differentiate instruction and implement project based learning in their classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2017

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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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 5, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. What’s hot: Livestreaming, conferences, and partnering with companies for learning. At the top for the third consecutive week is 10 Strategies For Successfully Using #PeriscopeEdu to capture the learning at conferences. Next up is post that shares Tips for Connecting at Education Conferences Rounding out the top is a post featuring a podcast I was interviewed for where I discuss my educational phi

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 8, 2017

Participants in breakout sessions at #NewsLitCamp Most people rarely hear, or read all about the amazing work that inner city students are doing in the local press. That’s because their stories often are not covered by the mainstream media. Ideas for giving a voice to diverse communities was a topic discussed at the #NewsLitCamp at Time Inc. in New York City.

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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.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 8, 2017

EDpuzzle the amazing simple to use site that educators everywhere are using to "flip" a classroom and differentiate instruction has recently release their "online" curriculum for teachers. Educators can now access all video-lessons and questions for the whole school year. This is a great way to easily gage student learning in a wide range of subjects.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 10, 2017

The Answer Pad is an awesome teacher tool that has two powerful functionalities: it is both a student response system with a focus on drawing and "show what you know", and a grading solution for your teacher created quizzes. It is browser based for teachers, and works on any device (BYOD), browser or on free apps for iOS or Android for students. It is an ideal tool for engaging students for any grade/subject area, and turning a classroom paperless.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 8, 2017

StoryCraft is a fun free iOS app that I found out about from the amazing educator, Shelly Terrell. This is a innovative way for students to collaborate on a story in the familiar "choose-your-own-adventure" style. Users can create a story w/ text and images and invite other students to add to their story. It kind of reminds me of poor man's version of BoomWriter w/out all the voting and bells and whistles.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 10, 2017

Yogome Epic Schools is the new educational suite of apps (i.e. Epic Teachers, Students, etc.) that uses Game Based Learning to teach/reinforce a variety of subjects (i.e. Math, Science, Programming, etc.) There are over a 1000 educational mini games/activities for students grades K-5. Best of all, a teacher can track student progress to make it easy to differentiate instruction.

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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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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 8, 2017

I Know It is a fantastic new site from Super Teacher Worksheets for interactive Math lessons grades K-5th. This is a super fun easy to use site for practice on a wide range of topics, such as: place value, multiplication, counting coins, time, and more. Best of all, I Know It, allows a educator to assign lessons and track student progress to make it easy to differentiate instruction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2017

A Learning Management System (what is often called an LMS) has become foundational to blending technology into education experiences. Without its one-stop curation of class management activities such as attendance, homework, grading, discussions, resources, and more, each with their own separate website, login, and password, technology use in education would be defined by chaos.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 9, 2017

Otus, the wonderful mobile learning solution and teaching and learning platform was hard at work this summer w/ over 50 updates. Best of all, all of this happens in one safe controlled environment. These updates exist in one single platform. Here is a brief look at some of the new features: enhanced Google Integration embed third party content (i.e.

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