Sat.Apr 27, 2019 - Fri.May 03, 2019

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What You Might Have Missed in April

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of April: An Open Letter to Teachers About Online Classes. 11 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship. The 15-second Slideshow. What to do when you lose a digital document. Have Google Takeout at Your End-of-Year Party. 12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year. Kindergartners need Technology too! 10 Myths about Teaching with Tech.

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Facebook Mentorship Program Helps Educators, Parents, and More

The Innovative Educator

Innovative Educators will be excited to learn that Facebook has a mentorship program available to people within select groups with a focus on parenting, professional, or personal development. This means admins can offer this feature to members of their groups. Those who are members of groups using this feature, can offer or find support. Members can determine how much time they want to spend together and what goals you want to work towards.

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Are You in Compliance with ADA and Section 508 Accessibility Guidelines?

Magic EdTech

Website accessibility isn’t just a good way to be sure that 100% of your customers and clients have access to your information and services when they need it. It’s also the law. Title III of the ADA requires all private business serve as “places of accommodations” to remove “access barriers” that could impede a disabled person’s access to their goods and services.

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Greater than STEM, Episode 2 – Food Insecurity

STEMx

Fifteen million U.S. households were food-insecure. in 2017. , according to the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. This week on Greater Than STEM, we speak with Ana, a 6th grade student and Michelle Moskowitz Brown of Local Matters, a community garden advocacy organization. These two share a love of food, gardening and family, but have come from different backgrounds with different access to food.

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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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Subscriber Special: Great Price on Coaching

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May 28th-31st: Coaching or Mentoring. BOGO — Buy one month; get the second free. Do any of these sound like you? Your kindergartners don’t know what ‘enter’, ‘spacebar’, ‘click’ or many other techie words mean but you need to teach them to keyboard, internet, and become digital citizens. How do you start? You have new students in your class who haven’t had technology training.

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Making Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) Meaningful

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

I recently met with a group of teachers to discuss assessments that align with the vision of the new Wisconsin Standards for Science (very similar the NGSS). When I brought up Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) as an opportunity to collaboratively create aligned assessments and review student work, they shared that their principals required them to use standardized tests that didn’t align well to their discipline-specific visions or standards.

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169 Tech Tip #71 How to Move Pics Around in Docs

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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: How to Move Pics Around in Docs. Category: Images.

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Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6th-May 10th

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Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6th-10th. In honor of these tenacious, creative individuals, here are some of our favorite teacher articles: 18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am. Definition of ‘Teacher’. How to be a Tech Teacher. 10 Steps to Become a Better Geek. 21 Reasons Why You Know You’re a Teacher. You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…. Just Another Day In Computer Lab.

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